Cake Decorating Courses

Announcing the new Local Cake Decorating Courses Directory

I am very pleased and proud to announce that the Local Cake Decorating Courses Directory is now live on this site.

This exciting new addition has been developed after the many queries I have received from visitors who were finding my site looking for information about courses local to them.  The courses are listed by county and city/town, and course features are assigned to each one, enabling visitors to easily find the best course for them.

Along with the new Course Directory, the Cake Decorating Courses website has a whole new homepage, making it easier for visitors to find exactly what they are looking for; be it local cake decorating courses, information about online cake decorating courses, or to connect with cake decorating bloggers.

Lindsay.

New Featured blog – Baker’s Treat

Baker’s Treat is now a Featured in my cake decorating blog directory.  Based in Croydon, Baker’s Treat is a family run bakery.  See some of their wonderful and creative cake designs at their blog.

The Cake Decorating Courses social media revolution

Well not quite, but I have been distracted from working on my new site plugin by adding Twitter and Facebook buttons to the site.  The buttons are visible on all blog pages within the cake decorating blog directory, my Blog and on my About page.  These buttons will help both blog owners and blog fans share things of interest.

I have also joined Twitter and Facebook to enable me to post updates about the site entries and improvements.  This provides a new way for blog owners and fans to keep up-to-date with any additions, new blogs and promotions.

I think these changes will all help improve the user experience for all my visitors.

A new home for Cake Decorating Courses

As some of you may know my cake decorating site empire is spread over three sites.  Part of the reason for this was keeping the size of the sites to a minimum.  This was important because no one likes to visit a site that takes too long to load.  Also the sites were hosted on shared hosting, which is basically a computer that hosts lots of different websites and shares its resources between them.  The largest of my three sites got a little too big for shared hosting.  This meant I was unable to add any new blogs to the site, and it was probably at risk of crashing if too many people visited at once.

So, a little sooner than planned – and with the help of my wonderful husband Derek – I have transferred all three sites over to my own new dedicated server.  Now the web sites are free to get as big and busy as they like.  I make no secret of the fact I am a bit of a geek, so I am really thrilled by this move.

We did have a few glitches with the transfer and it took a couple of days to get everything back on track.  So, if you did experience any problems over the last few days, I’m sorry, but we have fixed everything now.

I can now turn my attentions to a very exciting new feature that has been in the works for several months.

New Basic listing type in the Cake Decorating Blogs

I have added a new listing type to the cake decorating blog directory, called Basic.  On the category pages, it will appear as a smaller entry and side-by-side beneath Standard and Featured listings.

There are several reasons for this new listing type.  The main one is it enables me to enter blogs I find quicker than before and without having to review them.  I still intend to work through all blogs and write a review, but this means I can add them for others to find much sooner.  There will be more changes to the Basic listing over time, but for now I am busy with other features for the site.

Blog directory updates

It’s all a bit fruity with today’s new entries to the blog directory:

• Apple & Spice
• Oh my! Apple pie!

Blog directory updates

Lots of distractions this week, including a new paint package for me to play with.  I could go on and on about the new selection and vector tools, but I shall try to refrain.  I will say that my old paint package (Paint Shop Pro 7) was released in 2000 and so is now 10 years old.  Thanks to the wonders of ebay, it has been replaced with Paint Shop Pro 9, which is only 6 years old!  Still that is an upgrade for me.

Well enough of that and on with the blog directory updates.  Today I have added:

• Delicious Cake Design
• Fancy Nancy
• Cake or Mistake?

I think 3 will do, I’m off to play with my new paint package now :-)

Blog Directory Update

I just found this blog today.  I thought the cakes were so cute I just had to add it.  So if you’ve not been to OutCakes before, it’s well worth a visit.

Blog directory updates

After lots of graphic fun, I’m back to adding blogs to the directory.  Oh yes, there are still plenty more to be added.

So without further ado here are today’s additions:

• Cake off – not a cake decorating blog, but definitely cake fun.
• Jenny’s Cakes
• Extra Icing on the Cake
• Let Her Bake Cake

In other exciting news I have created a graphic to appear on entries for featured blogs, variations can also been seen in other places featured blogs are  displayed.  I think they brighten up the directory no end, and also make the featured blogs look very special.

Hope you like it, as I am rather proud of my shiny star creation.  I do like graphics.

New country buttons in blog directory

Something new has arrived over at the cake decorating blog directory and the blog category pages… new buttons!

Well, I think it is exciting.

Let me explain.  Clicking on the new buttons will take you to a similar directory.  How are they different?  I hear you cry.  Well, each directory contains blogs from either Australia or USA and elsewhere, depending on which one you choose.  Simple really.

Hopefully you will find something new and exiting there.

Enjoy,

Lindsay

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