Comments on: Changes

By: Shelli

Shelli — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 07:57:01 +0000

Your page looks great! I’m impressed (and a little jealous). I saw it before I saw the post about the changes, and it freaked me out at first … thought I was in the wrong place! I grew a bit attached the pic of your kids at the top, I guess (just so darn cute!).

I speak Geek, myself, so I totally understand what goes into designing this. I’ve been thinking about re-doing mine, but since it’s been so long since I’ve posted anything, I don’t want my 2 readers to have a heart attack. I think I’ll get back to blogging more regularly before changing anything. And I’ll probably give a warning first.

The design is really great, too *pats Jer on the back*. I love the picket fence. The “tabs” with the latest posts, comments and tag cloud is a cool idea. I do miss the “next post” and “previous post” links at the bottom, though. My only other suggestion is about your email address: to protect yourself from crawlers, I would separate it out with spaces before and after the @ … otherwise, you might get a ton of unintended spam.

Ok, I’ll shut up now. Great job! 🙂

By: Marly

Marly — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 02:47:55 +0000

The new site design looks great! Love the color, design and navigation. Very cool. My hubby is my website developer too so I know how you feel. Actually, I’m sure Jer probably knows how my husband feels. Great job, Jer!

By: christina

christina — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 22:13:29 +0000

Hey Mindy,
Looks like we were on the same page this week. Like your new look!

By: Brandy

Brandy — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 21:07:13 +0000

Great job, Jer!

By: Heather

Heather — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 20:21:39 +0000

Your page looks awesome! I have been debating with myself over changing mine.

Jer you did a great job and btw Thanks for the great advice on my computer issues.

Well it does take nine months to get a new baby! LOL!

By: Jeremy

Jeremy — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 19:02:57 +0000

In reply to Lori. That favorite icon was from the original theme I modified, so close and re-open your Web browser to see the new one I created today (it's a white fence, like you see at the top of the page).

By: Jeremy

Jeremy — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 19:00:47 +0000

Ok, so I totally felt bad about neglecting the site for months, and Mindy definitely deserved to have something unique. There’s still some work left to do, but hopefully these initial changes will be better on everyone’s eyes and make the site easier to read and navigate. I’ll also be updating the recipe section, adding a gallery to showcase some of the beautiful scenery here in Oregon (oh, and I’ll include ‘some’ pictures with people in them, per Mindy’s request), and making a few other changes here and there.

Oh, and I’m open to criticism, so don’t hold back!

By: Mindee@ourfrontdoor

Mindee@ourfrontdoor — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 14:54:02 +0000

You are singing my song. My tecchie husband is also all talk, slow delivery on these things. It looks great though!

By: Mindy

Mindy — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 14:47:45 +0000

Tinker – thank you! I’m excited…but kind of impatient so it’s gonna take some willpower on my end to wait out all the kinks! 🙂

Spot – thanks a bunch! I’ll tell him you approve. It’s still a work in progress but he’s a pretty thorough web designer so I imagine he’ll be going over it with a fine toothed comb. Given how long it took to go live I’m thinking it’ll be the finished product by about 2013. 🙂

Mindy

By: Lori

Lori — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 14:45:46 +0000

Quite cool! I actually noticed it last night, as your blog pops up on my Safari “Top Sites” page, and it actually caught my eye that the little tan icon seemed much more sparkly.

Quite lovely! If I bake Jer some cookies and send them away, will he do mine?

Oh! And had meant to say, was going to add you on Twitter, so when you see “marthapoints” that would be moi.

Can’t wait to hear about the road trip!