A couple of months ago, you may have noticed that my little blog got a new look. My very sweet, dear blogging friend, Marina, from Penny Lane Designs, worked her beautiful magic again on my blog.
Back in December I contacted Marina and started talking to her about my ideas and my vision. I wanted everything to be more organized and user friendly.
I wanted to make things easy for potential advertisers.
I wanted to clean up the design and change out the header photos. And she did it. I was truly blown away with the end results! I didn’t have specific plans for the color scheme, but after looking at lots of paint swatches I came up with a color palette that I thought would be easy on the eyes.
In June, she let me know that she’d installed the new design. After months of brainstorming and Marina working her magic, it was done!
So here is what you can find with the new design:
A new header.
A scrolling “featured posts” section. I may update these at some point, but these are some of the more “popular posts” on my blog, so I wanted to give readers easy access to those.
I’m using categories! Finally! There’s a little box in the sidebar where you can find the archives, categories, and search feature.
Pretty little buttons for the more popular categories. These are the categories that I use most often or used to use a lot. My “home tour” is in the “from my home” section. All of my posts on faith and family are in the “faith and family” category. And the same goes for recipes, wedding, etc.
Easy ways to connect via Twitter, Facebook, Pinterest, email, and RSS feed.
You can subscribe to my blog via email if you’d like.
A new “Facebook like” button in the sidebar so we can connect via Facebook.
A sponsor information page. This is very user friendly. If you are interested in sponsoring my blog, you can just click there and the whole thing is very self-explanatory. Cuts down on a lot of email back-and-forth.
So if you’re reading in a Reader, come visit and click around. I’d love to know what you think! I hope it’s easy to use and fun to read.
I love it! it’s super user friendly, simple, elegant, and oh so beautiful!
It is wonderful!
Great job! I love the new layout, such pretty colors 🙂 My hubby and I are tweeking our blog but may need professional help one of these days 😉
I LOVE your design. I’m obsessed with it. Well, maybe not that but every time I come here I get a little smile on my face. It is just nice to look at and easy to use. Totally love it. There seems to be more you can do while here. It is easy to start clicking and reading and an hr later you realize you’re still here reading posts!
I’m so glad you posted about this! I’m always in Reader, so when I clicked on your site last week I thought you had maybe done this a while ago and I never noticed. LOVE it! Very user friendly, simple and clean. Great job!
I love everything about your new design, but most of all love your content! The only thing that I noticed is new to the blog and drives me nuts is the Blog Her TV pop up as soon as you access your site 🙁 I read alot from mobile devices and it’s not easy to close.
Hey Katie. Thank you so much 🙂 And that BlogHer TV pop up is driving me insane, too! Believe me. I’m trying to get rid of it but it may take some time. Thanks, again!
I was going to mention that one too! I love re-reading the old posts, esp the house ones and your baby posts 🙂 I would love for it to go away. Thanks for being responsive, Erin….love your blog!
Hey Elizabeth 🙂 Thanks for your feedback. The pop up should be gone by tomorrow. 🙂 Thank you for reading!!
I’ve been meaning to tell you how much I loved the new look! It really is much more user friendly. I am trying myself to clean up my blog and do the same. Hopefully I’m on the right track…
I love it!
Your design is absolutely flawless. I love it! 🙂
I’m already in the category of old. I’m 72 and will be 73 in just a few months. Fortunately, my health is still good and I’m working full time. But I worry that one of these days I won’t be able to work and that means I won’t be able to pay my bills. That does worry me!