Graphics:
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.
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:
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.
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
Last night I was doing a bit of yoga on my Wii and was feeling all pleased with myself and healthy then I had a major light bulb moment.
On Tuesday I made some changes to my site by adding a navigation bar under the header banner, but something about it wasn’t quite right. It still felt a little messy and disorganised. Well, like I said I’d just done a bit of yoga and for once wasn’t thinking about the site, and hey presto – I got it!
I’ve split up the navigation, with a lot of help from Derek (hubby), because it was a bit complicated for me to figure out on my own. Now things like ‘Home’, ‘Blog’ and ‘About’ appear above the header and the real contents of the site appear underneath when you leave the homepage.
I’m well pleased with the navigation now, and a little proud of myself for figuring it out. Not that I’m resting on my laurels. Oh no, I’m working on another exciting change, which fingers crossed will be unveiled soon.
Yay, I love it when a plan comes together,
Lindsay
It may not be BIG news, but I have added a cute little cupcake favicon. It may take time to change for anyone who has visited the site before, but it is there honest.
I do like having a favicon that matches the site. There was no way I was going to get a whole cake squeezed in, so a cupcake seemed the best alternative.
I’m a total geek,
Lindsay.
PS. For those of you who may be wondering what a favicon is. A favicon is the little image that appears next to the websites URL in your browser, and if you have tabs it will also appear there. See I told you I was a geek.
