Shiny and New
The Boy, in support of my quest for world domination through wool, graciously spent much of his Thanksgiving day diligently updating the website. I helped (mostly by saying ‘that thing, make it line up with that other thing, no the one over there. Now make it the color of that other thing over on that side. Hmm, maybe not, let me see it the original way again?) and played with felt. He was most gracious. I was doubtless irritating.
I think everything should be pretty self explanatory. Most things are more or less where they were before the shuffle (I’m resistant to change). On a cosmetic level, the site is now more in line with how the books’ websites look. On a functional level, the biggest news is the addition of little pinterest, twitter, and facebook buttons at the top of each post and additional pinterest buttons on the pictures in each post. While I, myself, am rather slow to adopt these new marvels (I’m only just coming to terms with twitter, pinterest and I have only recently introduced, and I’m still staunchly resisting facebook), I’ve been assured that many of you rather like them. These buttons should make it easy for you to pin, tweet, and erm…whatever the verb for facebook is to your heart’s content. Please feel free to share as the urge strikes you!
If you notice anything acting up, feel free to let me know (either by leaving a comment here or sending an email). There are doubtless some weird quirks, and it may take a few days to hunt them all down.
And never fear, we did indeed partake in our traditional Thanksgiving pizza feast. We visited Bar Cento and sampled two of their lovely offerings (and possibly some french fries too, it is the national day of gluttony after all). We even managed to bring home the extras so we could have leftovers today for lunch.
I really love your shiny new update. It looks great on my iPad. Very, very easy to read. The Boy did a nice job! I enjoy reading your blog, thanks for writing.
I hesitate to mention it, but the new website may not be working properly, yet. When I load the page, there is a header at the top (Violently Domestic, Patterns, Contact, and Pantsville Press), then a HUGE white empty space with just a graphic placeholder (no graphic). If you then scroll down one page, one will see the blog entries and the links down the right side. (I’m viewing with IE9 and have tried the refresh button.)
As I said, I didn’t want to mention at first in case you were still working on it. But, then I thought you might not be aware of it and better to know about it during a long weekend when you might have time to work on it. Anyway, the rest of it looks GREAT – very neat and clean!
Interestingly, when viewed with Firefox, there’s no empty graphic spot and it goes straight from the header to the blog entries.
Oh, how very very weird, definitely not supposed to do that. Thank you for letting me know, and we will look at it right now!
I think we’ve got it fixed now Tricia, if you have a moment, could you see if it looks right to you now? And thanks again for letting me know, we totally didn’t realize that was going on!
I’m using IE9 and it looks the same in Firefox as IE9 to me. I do not have an option to reply to your responses, Hunter. Not sure if that is intentional or not. Love the new social media options. 🙂
Yeah, the reply to reply thing seems to be something in the theme. We’re looking into it (meaning I asked The Boy and he’s stared at the screen and typed). Not sure if it’s something we can tweak easily (in which case we will) or if it would be a huge pain (in which case we won’t).
In either case, thanks for double checking the IE9 thing for me, I’m glad it’s working now!
It looks great now! What a nice job he did!!