New Look WordPress

WordPress has changed it’s admin layout and it’s just perfect now (and it was pretty good before!)  I’ve just been trying to use blogger and although you can update the templates more easily and for free unlike WordPress, the functionality is just rubbish.  I want to see my stats on the admin part of my blog and not have to log into Google Analytics everytime.

Why on earth is Google Analytics not the default stats system on Blogger without any configuration (which is a pain the ass for the non- technical), it should just be there.  Most people haven’t a clue how to code, and it’s something that is so essential to your blog.

So WordPress will be keeping me for a while longer, especially with the new sexy interface - nice work Automattic!

New Header

Yes I know it’s cheesy but it was the only photo I could find of me and Mini Geek that had some red in it! Here’s an outtake from our Photo Booth session

But if nothing else I’ve got lots done on the Violet Posy Store site, in between sneezing!

I wanna do that!

Okay i’m in bed ill with a stupid cold and I’m trying to keep quiet so Betty doesn’t know I’m here and will then bark her head off to play with me. So what else can I do other than surf the web very quietly

I’ve been here 2 days now and I have found some just brilliant sites. Apologies if you already know about them, but I’m now totally and utterly in love with BigHugeLabs.com - what a genius site!. It’s allowed me to do all sorts of gorgeous things with my flickr pictures. I’ve done a Polaroid frame of this self portrait by Mini Geek, which I think looks great

And they also have a very nice Flickr Sidebar app which I’ve just added to Violet Posy and I’m about to add to here. Also there is a custom WordPress Header tool, which is also great for lazy/time poor people like me

The other site I’ve just come across by playing blog to blog (click on enough blogroll links and you find some gems) is Auntie Pea’s Blog. Her site and the work she’s done for other blogs via Eclectic Whimsy Designs is just stunning,you can colour me green

I wanna do stuff like that!!! All I need is some talent (sadly lacking!) and the right tools on the Mac as my Win Laptop is now offline and I can’t get it back on the internet. If anyone can suggest a webdesign programme for the Mac preferably cheap/free I’d be grateful.

My initial reaction when I saw Shawn’s work was to beg her to do my Blogs and pay her. Then I remembered that in 2 weeks I won’t have one of those job thingy’s that pay for fun stuff like that. So I’m now reading up everything I can find on how to do graphic design. Still if I get the contracting work that’s being mooted for me, then I’m mailing her in a heartbeat.

Right I’m off to re-design Geek Mum, I’m now very ashamed at my boring layout!

New Blog Links

I’ve been making time recently to hunt around for some new blogs to read. And I’ve come across some really gorgeous blogs written by some really talented women. I’ve really enjoyed all their writing and the pictures are just beautiful a real inspiration for an intermittant blogger like me :). They are all in my ‘Beautiful Blog’ section.
Enjoy!

Family History Blogs

Admitedly I’ve not been working on this much recently, so I’m not aware of that many family history blogs. However whilst surfing for WordPress Widget’s I came across this site

When I get time I’ll read it, I’m interested in how they have been working with RSS feeds for the site. It would be handy for my cousins and I don’t like depending on Ancestry.