Sunday, January 11, 2015

Major Blog Revamp

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I had planned to totally clean my craft room today.  But what I ended up doing was coding a major blog revamp.  I’ve had the same blog layout for about 3 years.  I really wanted a cleaner, flatter look, with some pink thrown in there.  I am very happy with the result, especially since I did it myself with lots of Googling.  If you are reading my blog from Feedly, Bloglovin, or some other blog reader, feel free to click over and check out the new real estate!

What’s changed?

  • New blog banner.  I was so tired of the old one.
  • New Page Tabs with new font, and now they turn pink when you hover over a page tab.
  • I went to two columns instead of three, and cleaned up a lot of extraneous sidebar items.
  • New profile and intro.
  • New social media buttons that change colors when you hover over them with your mouse!
  • Instead of showing the entire post of blog posts, now there are thumbnails with the first paragraph of each post.  You can click on “Read More” or the thumbnail photo to read the blog post.

It was a much-needed change and I am so happy with how it turned out!  Well, that and pretty proud that I did it myself in one afternoon, heh.

17 comments:

  1. Love it, Christine! :)

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  2. Love it. Looks great. I like all your banner pics - all the things that represent you and what you love.

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  3. Looks fantastic! And in other news, I re-found your stash of goodies you sent me a couple of years ago, and used some more bits. That was the funnest stash ever--thank you so much again!

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  4. Woot woot. Looks great on my phone (both mobile and web versions)! Have a great 2015!

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  5. Thanks so much, everyone!

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  6. Such a pretty blog! Love the new design.

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  7. Looks great! Love the pink!

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  8. I love this! You did an amazing job!

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  9. Christine, your site looks fantastic! I'm really impressed that you did it in such a short amount of time yourself! Awesome :)

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  10. Can you share the code in this: Instead of showing the entire post of blog posts, now there are thumbnails with the first paragraph of each post. You can click on “Read More” or the thumbnail photo to read the blog post.

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    1. Hi Tracy - here's the tutorial I used to change that code in Blogger: http://helplogger.blogspot.com/2012/03/auto-read-more-with-thumbnail-for.html

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    2. Hi Christine! Thank you for the link up. :)

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  11. Love the new look. Touches of pink are always good. 😉 So impressed that you can set this up yourself - I wouldn't know where to start!

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