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:
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.
See all of Summer’s merch at her Designercat Shop, available on Zazzle.
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 ?
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!
We like it! It comes up nicely on mommy’s smarty-pants phone.
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!
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. 🙂
I love the new look of your blog. It must have been a lot of work! I love the color, very cheerful 😛
We like the new look too. Nice and fresh looking and easy to use. 😀
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!
Oh good! Our smiley came up right this time!
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!
We noticed your new look….it looks pawsome!
The Florida Furkids
It looks great, Sparkle! We wish our lazy human would get off her duff and do something about our ol’ tired blog design.
We think the new look is great Sparkle.
Luv Hannah and Lucy xx xx
This is most excellent. We love it!
We did notice! It’s very bright and cheerful!
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…)
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 🙂
It looks great – extra Sparkle-y!
We like the new look Sparkle!!
It looks almost as good as you 😆
Well done!
Purrs Tillie and Georgia,
Treasure,Tiger,JJ and Julie
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
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!
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 🙄
Me LOVES it And Me went and looked at it on Mommy’s Blackberry and it is pawsome!
Kisses
Nellie
The publicist saysd it looks very spiffy on her nexus.
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
Congrats on getting the new format up and running! I hope that it works well.
Great new look Sparkle, congrats!
Love the new look Sparkle. Easy to use too. 😀
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!