3 design tips for your craft blog
Starting a craft blog can be a fun but also daunting prospect. If you are a blog lurker and eager to start your own blog but not quite sure what to write or if you already have a craft blog and would like to build your audience and participate more fully in the craft blog community – then tune in over the coming weeks for tips and ideas on how to build a better craft blog.
A well laid out and attractive blog is essential if you want your audience to stick around for any length of time. Here are a few design tips to think about when setting up your blog. Don’t worry html is not essential. Most blog hosting sites such as blogger and wordpress and typepad offer standard templates which can adjusted to your liking or used out of the box.
Think about a good combination of functionality and style when designing your blog/website.
1. Colour (color): Thinking about colour – font colour, background colour, heading/header colours are very important – colour not only is the first impression your blog gives but it is important for readability.
Colour resources: suggested colour themes : colour palettes : colour schemes :
2. Font: Make reading your blog easy – choose easy on the eye colours – not too light – not too bright – and think about the font type – something simple is best – not too big not too small not too fancy. You might want to consider a different font for headings – and also spacing between lines and different fonts for links to help them stand out a bit more.
Whipup has recently updated our font – using a slightly darker grey for the main font, slightly increasing the width between lines – and making the link font brighter and larger. All of this means its easier for readers to navigate the page.
Font for web resources: best font for web article : font explanations for the web :
3. Layout: Again making your site easy for readers to navigate should be your main aim.
May 2nd, 2009 at 11:33 am
Another thought on colors–it’s surprising how many people have some degree of colorblindness. Most of it has to do with reds and greens. I’ll never completely understand, but my son just doesn’t recognize some colors as being in the green family. So depending on the background and text colors, some words almost disappear. Just something to be aware of.
May 3rd, 2009 at 12:09 am
thank you Dulcet for the feedback on this post. Just goes to show how important colour is and how different it is for different people.
May 5th, 2009 at 4:36 pm
Thanks you for posting this! Every once in awhile I’ll come across a blog that I have to highlight to read. Colors and fonts are so important. I’ll be linking to this.
May 10th, 2009 at 3:21 am
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