Oh. Right. Hi.
August 29, 2007
Uh. Surprise!
(Hit refresh if you don't know what I'm talking about.)
Should I have said something? Given you a heads up that omffffg, the site is going to look all different tomorrow? I actually meant to, but then I forgot. Also am ovulating, and thus very busy.
Anyway, yes. Site done got all redesigned all good and fancy like. Obviously, not by me, since I coded the last design, which I am pretty sure was held together with duct tape and DOS. Sean Slinsky did this one for me. (Sean is actually Nothing But Bonfires' Holly's Sean, which I'm sure he appreciates being called.)
I'm sure he also appreciated my input and instructions, which consisted of me saying things like: I don't want the site to be so damn pink anymore, but I want you to still use the same picture, which is damn pink, but you know, make it less damn pink.
And then I emailed him a photo of Jason's boxers. I am a joy.
But! As you can see, he did a totally kick ass job and I love love looooove it. He made Typepad do things that Typepad doesn't really like to do, and Typepad was all, Oh Sean, you're so dreamy, anything for you, Sean, and he added some cool thingies (check out the links to mah other stuff like Mamapop and behold the cool RSS feed; it's like I'm living in some kind of crazy futuristic world where information flows like wine) (also OH MAH GAH THERE'S A DAMN SEARCH FUNCTION), but for the most part I think everything is still where it used to be, so please no more disoriented weeping.
If something doesn't look or function right, let me know, but first know that I may only care if you are seeing it in Firefox/Safari/Opera/IE7, and even then I will only care a little about IE7.
PS Categories are only working for recent entries, since I went years without using them and it's a huge pain to go back and assign them now, but I'm working on them. For you! And your browsing pleasure.
PPS I am freaking exhausted now and need to go lie down, even though I did nothing more strenuous during the entire switch-over process than a thumbs-up, we're a go for relaunch, 10-4. But still. I HOVERED.
PPPS / UPDATE: Yeah. Let's just pretend I don't have a Links page right now. We will fix. Fixed and fabulous, dawgs.
Love the new site - it almost rocks as much as you!
I am totally freaking out right now over the thought that I may have been one of the first people to see the new look - egad!
love the stuff under your pick - kind of freaking, and hot but still all "girl power" ... and yes the funky links rock!
acutally -- the new look originally had the old post... the new post just came... and ya it is pretty freaky. Like your best friend just went and dyed her hair bright pink (o ya she already did that!)>
So pretty. Comfy...might just put my feet up and stay a while.
Yay! I like it! (Less pink means I can kind of get away with reading this at work. Woo!)
Beautiful! Dynamic AND elegant. Kudos to Sean (and to you for such awesome directorial thumbs-upping.)
Love the new layout! The comment bubbles are too cute! Everything worked great in Firefox after I refreshed but I came from google reader so maybe it was that.
Looks Great!
First of all when you say Oh My Gah it totally reminds me of that newlyweds episode where Jessica Simpson doesn't want to say God anymore and runs around saying oh my gah!!!
I LOOOOOOOVE THE NEW SITE. My page is pretty jealous and wants to kick your pages ass now!
First of all when you say Oh My Gah it totally reminds me of that newlyweds episode where Jessica Simpson doesn't want to say God anymore and runs around saying oh my gah!!!
I LOOOOOOOVE THE NEW SITE. My page is pretty jealous and wants to kick your pages ass now!
First of all when you say Oh My Gah it totally reminds me of that newlyweds episode where Jessica Simpson doesn't want to say God anymore and runs around saying oh my gah!!!
I LOOOOOOOVE THE NEW SITE. My page is pretty jealous and wants to kick your pages ass now!
This is lovely, but God help me, I still miss the cherries....
love it! great! fabulous!
I usually read your site via my RSS reader on Livejournal (for am Lazy when it comes to going to other places) - I read the first line and went "Uh? Buh? Uh... OH." Got it figured out now.
Hoorah.
GREY. So pretty.
Ooo...shiny!
It's bea-u-ti-ful!
Love the new look, truly, but the links section is bugging me out...your blogroll is MY blogroll, see, and now when I use your links I can't see anyone's whole entry, nor get to their page directly...wahhh!
It's beautiful, Amy . . . I had a scary moment when I loaded the page in Firefox and it was full of THE WONK. But then I cleared my cookies and it was all better, yay!
(By la way, just discovered you via "It's Not All Mary Poppins" and read all your archives over the course of two weeks and was overjoyed that you live in the DC metropolitan area and are also miraculously somehow cool and I promise not to be a stalker but now I am a faithful amalahead k thx bye.)
I may be the only one but nothing in the left column works for me, links, Mamapop and so on. Could be the old arse server my work is on? Otherwise I love it, great update.
I love it so so much!! It's so pretty and pink, but not too pink, and so pretty!! I got nervous when it loaded thinking somehow I lost your page and how could I lose your page but wait it's still the right page hooray!!
Ahhhhhhh, sage green -- my favorite. I like the little comment boxes, it's like we all have bubbles with the words coming out of our mouths.
Nice work, Sean.
De-lurking to say I LOVE the new design! (Although I DO miss the "Project Toddalah")
It's so perty!!!! And new!!! And Exciting!!!
I absolutely love it!
Loves it!
I think I actually said OMG out loud in my cube!
Mostly I'm just amused by the new comment policy.
Also, it's so high-techy and cool when you click your other site links; oooh, fancy.
Love the new look! Especially love the cool box that pops up when you click your links. So fancy!!!
Love it! It's very grown up girly!
I love it! LOVE IT! The sage-y green* and pink. The stuff my dreams are made of! You are pretty, oh so pretty!
*Dear Anal Retentive Proper Color Name Nazis... I do not care of the technical color name is oregano mist or thyme-less wonder or some shit like that. So pffft!
Love!
Also, pink and grey are totally the new black.
You redecorated! LOVE the new look - it's way cute!
looks all kinds of fantastic...yay Amalah...and yay Sean!
I LOVE the new look! Gorgeous. The links page is more fun too. And categories! Whoa! Good work!! (You too, Sean!) Awesome!
One word. In caps. For, you know, effect.
SHAZAM!
So pretty. and beautiful. love the redesign. Sean rocks. At first Firefox wanted to load your old design. one refresh and the new design bumped the old design. I'm getting the mom's daily dose link sitting on top of the smackdown link.
The phonetics are a nice touch.
Looks good!
I love it! It looks great. All of your hard work really paid off. ;-)
looks great!
I love it! It's less pink, yet more pink, you know? Very feminine. Exactly what I would design for my website if I wasn't so mediocre at it (oh, and if I had money to pay someone to do it.) Fantastic!
oh, and I just clicked on the link page, thanks for the shot out!
Love Love Love and Hooray!
I don't think i've ever commented, but love the redesign - esp. the new comment "word bubbles"
I loooooove love love the new site! Tis tres pretty, like you! ;)
P.S. this is my first ever time commenting....yay! squee!
Very cool. I love the drop-down things on the links.
YAY! The site looks fantastic!
It looks great. I'm jealous of your super fancy design, it looks very professional. Good job Nothing But Bonfires' beau Sean!
reminds me that I need to redesign. yikes.
reminds me that I need to redesign. yikes.
Oooh la la, he DID do a great job.
Looking good like I knew you wooooould.
Yay! Glad everybody likes it. I know redesigns can leave you sort of unsettled sometimes -- like when my favorite sites redesign I'm always thrown into a temporary blind panic where I FORGET HOW THE INTERNET WORKS.
(And we're going to fix the links page. Not sure what's going on there with the weird loading-in-frame thing, but we're on it!)