So you’ve started up a new blog. You can’t exactly call yourself tech-savvy, so you’ve taken advantage of a free blogging platform like Blogger or WordPress, and you’ve selected a nice design template from among their selection. So far, so good. But now, your new blog could really use a spiffy custom header, so people […]
Editor’s Note: We’re thrilled to welcome Julie Jackson back to CRAFT! Her monthly column will feature fascinating crafters from all over the world. When I first discovered the work of Steotch.com, I felt like I had found my long-lost siblings. If I could anoint the next generation of truly subversive stitchers, they would definitely wear […]
By Diane Gilleland Last month, we talked about originality – why it’s important to find that one thing only you can do, and then share it online. I drew on stories from last month’s Crafting Your Online Presence panels at Maker Faire. This month, I want to share another strong theme from those discussions: that […]
Wowee! The two Crafting Your Online Presence panels at Maker Faire were amazing. All kinds of great wisdom issued from the minds of our esteemed panelists – too much, in fact, to capture in a single column here. So I’ll be drawing on what happened in these discussions over the next few months. Today, I […]
Chances are, if you’re online for any length of time, you’ll end up with a whole bunch of profiles in a whole bunch of places. Have you ever considered how well all these profiles coordinate with one another? Have you thought about how easy it might be for someone to navigate among them? Or why this matters?
A few years ago, I saw a gorgeous photo on Flickr of people with pearl buttons sewn all over their clothes in amazing patterns, and my obsession with “Pearlies” began. I immediately started bidding on eBay auctions for pearl buttons and dug out an old black jacket in hopes of making my own. But, after […]
It’s the number one question people ask me about blogging, Twitter, and Facebook: “How do I get more readers?” It’s a fair question, but I think it’s also a fuzzy one. So I want to spend this month’s column examining it (and yes, answering it).
