She suggested that perhaps I ditch the green on my site (remember the hills?) which is when I confessed that for a while now (well over a year in fact) I was wanting to give the site a new look without changing everything. I like the layout (and it took so long to perfect it a stubborn part of me isn't ready to part with it). She suggested I put together a 'inspiration page' where I copied and pasted images I liked and what look/colours etc I liked.
Well that got me started - and I found my new colour scheme - then I found my images, did a new header and yesterday I spent the whole day re-colouring/designing - I thought I was going to break blogger.
So if you were online yesterday you might have seen some of my 'tinkering' and there may be a little more...
Some things I want to quickly ensure you know:
First of all - you may not have been aware - you can subscribe by email - there's a few of you who do this already - but I thought I'd make it easier for you by putting a button up for you... see over there to the right --->
There's a new 'print friendly' button there on the navigation bar - if you want to print a recipe - just open the post, click on 'print friendly'
It will remove the right column and include all the comments from the post (because I know how helpful you all are with questions and variations - and I want to include those!) Then you can print as per your normal methods.
Hoorah right? I know a lot of you have asked (begged me) for that functionality - thank you must go to my friend Di !
The other new thing you may find is riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight down the bottom you will find some more shortcuts...here's a few examples Anything you want added - let me know!
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And finally here is the button (on the sidebar but here's another!)
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10 lovely comments:
Looking very slick.....I prefer the new colours - they are calmer...
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Very nice! Loving the new colours.
Sorry for turning, what was supposed to be a 5min job, into a whole day site revamp!! LOL!
Its amazing what you can achieve with the tiniest spark of inspiration ;-)
Loving the new look and Lucy is spot on, it is calmer and cleaner. That new print function is going to get a work out for sure!
looking very sleek & stylish Liss!
well done, it has all come together perfectly.
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Er.... can some people test the print thing in different browsers? It is a teeeeny bit hacky js
love it! i agree very slick and modern! perfect!
corrie:)
Love the new header Liss - although I'll miss the pic of your lovely frills!
I took one look and knew who was behind the design - love our Nisha! Looks brilliant Liss and I have signed up for the email - yay!!! And love that you can print the recipes
@Daniellehahaha! So funny you say that...maybe she's rubbing off on me? The only suggestion that Nisha made was to tidy up my fonts and do the inspiration board, I did/found everything else.. except for the print-friendly stuff - our lovely Di did that!
Danielle - i cant take any credit for the face-lift. I only suggested some minor 'spring-cleaning' and suggested an inspiration board and off she went!
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