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You are here: Home / Diary / Yes, My Blog DOES Have a New Look!

Yes, My Blog DOES Have a New Look!

February 25, 2013 By: Sparkle Cat29 Comments

Coding and web design are human work!

You have probably noticed by now that my blog has a new look! I have been trying to get this done since last September; I blame my human for not working harder to find a designer. The thing is, this was not just a simple matter of creating a background, header and graphics. The navigation and whole framework of the blog had to be changed and updated, and a custom theme built. So I needed someone familiar with how WordPress works to do some heavy coding and lifting!

Importantly, I needed the new design to be “responsive.” That means, it self-creates its own version on a mobile device. So if you look at my blog on your smart phone, it should look something like this:

I think it looks pretty cool

Well, you won’t see me looking over it — you will just see the blog. There are still be some bugs (like missing or wrong forms for my Login and Join pages of my Fan Club). So you may continue to see some minor changes (for the better) happening.

Oh, and best of all, that awful slider on the homepage that confused everyone is gone for good! I never did like that thing.

In case you are wondering where my Contact, About, and Fan Club links are, they are at the very bottom of my righthand sidebar now.

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  1. Hemingway and Shakespeare says

    March 15, 2013 at 1:38 pm

    Sparkle, thanks for following our blog! We think you did a great job with the design of your blog. (Even though you said your human and someone else worked on it, we know you were telling them what to do.) Have a great weekend!

    Reply
  2. sue brandes says

    February 27, 2013 at 7:50 am

    Love the new look Sparkle. Easy to use too. 😀

    Reply
  3. Clooney says

    February 26, 2013 at 11:39 pm

    Great new look Sparkle, congrats!

    Reply
  4. Rose says

    February 26, 2013 at 7:26 pm

    Congrats on getting the new format up and running! I hope that it works well.

    Reply
  5. Sammy says

    February 26, 2013 at 5:31 am

    The new look is FABULOUS…love it….the yellow background just makes your beautiful red coat SPARKLE (ahem….clever of me – yes?). 😛

    Kitty hugs, Sammy

    Reply
  6. Famous SpokesGoat Pricilla says

    February 25, 2013 at 9:10 pm

    The publicist saysd it looks very spiffy on her nexus.

    Reply
  7. Penelope says

    February 25, 2013 at 7:56 pm

    Me LOVES it And Me went and looked at it on Mommy’s Blackberry and it is pawsome!
    Kisses
    Nellie

    Reply
  8. Savannah NanaMo says

    February 25, 2013 at 7:46 pm

    ohhh my CAT!!! I totally luvluvluv your new look Sparkle!!…sigh….wish my Mom could do all this. Your Mom totally ROCKS!!!…IMHFO, Paw pats, Savannah 🙄

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  9. BeadedTail says

    February 25, 2013 at 4:38 pm

    We like your new look Sparkle! We’ll try it on the smartphone but Mommy can’t type very fast on it so she never comments on blogs from it but at least we can always see you!

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  10. Tillie and Georgia says

    February 25, 2013 at 3:43 pm

    Hey, we got to comment!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    We have not upgraded our internet yet ( big cat dental month)
    and we normally could not comment .
    We hope you keep these settings 🙂
    Purrs Tillie and Georgia,
    Treasure,Tiger,JJ and Julie

    Reply
  11. Tillie and Georgia says

    February 25, 2013 at 3:40 pm

    We like the new look Sparkle!!
    It looks almost as good as you 😆
    Well done!
    Purrs Tillie and Georgia,
    Treasure,Tiger,JJ and Julie

    Reply
  12. Quill says

    February 25, 2013 at 3:05 pm

    It looks great – extra Sparkle-y!

    Reply
  13. Random Felines says

    February 25, 2013 at 1:56 pm

    very nice…..mom said she can do the minor changes to ours, but would need to find someone with some skills to do anything else 🙂

    Reply
  14. Maxwell, Faraday & Allie says

    February 25, 2013 at 1:06 pm

    Way COOL! We love the facelift and think it looks very fresh and “now”. (How did you get your human to move on this? Prodding with unsheathed claws? We need to try somesuch thing…)

    Reply
  15. Bernadette says

    February 25, 2013 at 10:16 am

    We did notice! It’s very bright and cheerful!

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  16. Punapippuri says

    February 25, 2013 at 8:38 am

    This is most excellent. We love it!

    Reply
  17. Hannah and Lucy says

    February 25, 2013 at 5:31 am

    We think the new look is great Sparkle.
    Luv Hannah and Lucy xx xx

    Reply
  18. The Island Cats says

    February 25, 2013 at 5:27 am

    It looks great, Sparkle! We wish our lazy human would get off her duff and do something about our ol’ tired blog design.

    Reply
  19. The Florida Furkids says

    February 25, 2013 at 5:13 am

    We noticed your new look….it looks pawsome!

    The Florida Furkids

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  20. Fuzzy Tales says

    February 25, 2013 at 5:03 am

    It looks terrific! I was thinking of redoing the boys’ blog, found a couple of free templates I really like, but they require far more know-how than I have to get them up and working with the existing site. So I can imagine the HUGE effort it’s taken to revamp your blog, Sparkle. Great job, whoever did it!

    Reply
  21. Eric and Flynn says

    February 25, 2013 at 4:46 am

    Oh good! Our smiley came up right this time!

    Reply
  22. Susan Helene Gottfried says

    February 25, 2013 at 4:46 am

    Sparkle, tell your human the West of Mars web guy is doing the responsive thing, too. He’s got it down, and man, is it slick. If she ever needs his name, I’d be glad to share!

    Reply
  23. Eric and Flynn says

    February 25, 2013 at 4:45 am

    We like the new look too. Nice and fresh looking and easy to use. 😀

    Reply
  24. Tamago says

    February 25, 2013 at 4:28 am

    I love the new look of your blog. It must have been a lot of work! I love the color, very cheerful 😛

    Reply
  25. Simba says

    February 25, 2013 at 4:03 am

    parkle, your new look is very nice. Our lame humans don’t have a smartphone, but we think it is still a great idea for you to have a good version of your blog to appear on peoples phones. Love the yellow background theme to be like your book. 🙂

    Reply
  26. Karen and Gerard says

    February 25, 2013 at 2:51 am

    We like your new design too! I think you were smart getting rid of that slider thing. It was confusing. I didn’t know you were on Twitter, off to follow you!

    Reply
  27. The Kitties of Purring Pines says

    February 25, 2013 at 2:20 am

    We like it! It comes up nicely on mommy’s smarty-pants phone.

    Reply
  28. Mr Puddy says

    February 25, 2013 at 1:29 am

    I love your new look of the blog !
    Pawsome color ! Bright and Happy 😛
    But I hope you do not hate me for this, is it possible to move the title away from your bootiful face ?

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    • Sparkle says

      February 25, 2013 at 1:56 am

      I wish there was a way to do that, but I am having to split the difference between that and making the blog work on mobile devices. My human and the webmaster human went around about this for quite a while!

      Reply

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