Housekeeping: Welcome to the New Site!
Jul 22nd, 2007 by Viviane
Welcome to our new home. The move took so long because I had to embed the link URLs in the body of the post. And it also took time to find a Wordpress template I liked and add widgets. Lots and lots of widgets, but they really help functionality.
The import was slow, and kept stalling out. I even tried exporting to Wordpress.com, and that timed out too. I called my ISP, they did something to the INI file and then it worked flawlessly. Then I started getting “internal server errors”. Turns out there is a plugin issued after version 2.0.5. That fixed it.
I’m still adding and fixing things, so it is still very much a work in progress.
A little tour:
Most of the improvements are under the hood, but hopefully make it easier for you to find the things that interest you on this site. Like making it easier to look at this site on your PDA or smart phone, backup the entire blog, or upload a site map for Google.
The template is quite wide, but is scalable in your browser.
On the upper right hand side, notice the little blocks of color? You can switch the color of the template to rose, light green or blue.
The “Search” box (plugin) searches both posts and pages. Standard WP only searches posts.
The “Addthis” bookmark widget on both the site and each post lets you bookmark to your favorite site.
If you click on a contributor’s name on the sidebar, you’ll view both their bio and all the posts they’ve written on this site.
A new “Contact Us” form.
A separate Blogroll page. I’m using Blogrolling. I don’t know why it’s formatted as double space on the sidebar column but only single space on a new page.
I’ll be back to regular posting soon.
Tags: wordpress
I love the new look. And I love that I can change the colors myself. Brilliant!
I imagine that having so much content it was quite a task. But you did it! I’m sure it will get easier from here out. And your ISP helped? I never would have thought of that.
Congratulations to you all. You’re officially a dot com.
Awesome!
Congratulations!
xo
Lisa
nice new site.
xo
I love the new look! Well done!!
It’s purty, Viviane.
Congratulations on becoming mistress of your domain.
Kisses,
JanieBelle
I can feel your pain but looks like it was all worth it. Congratulations on your brand, spanking new site and look forward to seeing you soon-ish.
Suzanne Portnoy
Viviane, it looks fantastic! Congratulations. I know what you’ve been going through, but it was all worth it.
xo GS
Congratulations on your new domain, and the new template is very attractive. I suppose I’m just an old fart, but I miss the blogroll down the side. It made for easy picking of new fruit, whereas this version has a lot of ads. I know money talks, but I wanted to register that one tiny caveat.
Ads? There are ads on the page?
Geez, Tom. Quit saying stuff like that. Now I’ll have to add this place to my White List, or die of guilt.
I love Firefox.
**heads off to add this place to the White List to avoid debilitating guilt**
Kisses