My Gift to You in Blue!
Isn’t this wonderful? And it’s all of the work of my sister, Heidi! She’s such an awesome builder. I was just with her on Friday & we took this photo.
It was time for change & we’ve been working on this for a few months because:
- the red has served it’s purpose, but people were tired of the photo
- it was great for branding though
- I needed something more professional with new branding
- I wanted to make it easier to access my resources – see tabs
- my speaking engagements deserve highlighting
- and after a year it was time for a change!
A quick tour around:
- The blog is still a WordPress blog which my sister magically made to feel like the rest
- The rest of the site is Joomla & pretty cool. I can easily edit it
- There are forums with a private area for Community people to discuss life privately
A couple of cool features here on the blog – there are two sets of tabs that save a lot of space. My sister tweaked the CSS so they highlight when you mouseover them.
And today I saw a very cool way to continue to build my Twitter community and help all of you connect with people who comment on my blog.
- When you comment, you can add your Twitter name – I put in an example below
- Then it is turned into a hyperlink for others to connect to you with!
- Leave a comment & try it out! Here’s the plug in so you can have the same coolness.
- A friend said that @jowyang & @ChrisBrogan should use it to make it easier to connect with their community. It’s a great idea guys!
I’d love to have your feedback on the redesign. Suggestions? It’s never done. And my sister has redone many blogs including that of Sean O’Driscoll & Mari Smith. You can find her at SolutionsByHeidi.com
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Connie Bensen says:
You can connect with me on Twitter here & to all of those that leave their Tweet names!
Ari Herzog says:
I’m glad to see Andy’s Twitter plugin in action; I have a different Twitter plugin on my blog.
Speaking of which, I’d love for you to visit my blog… you might enjoy it! (I also wrote a blog post yesterday indicating 15 WP plugins I love, which you might get some pointers from.)
Joomla and Wordpress combined. That’s an interesting combo.
Ari Herzog says:
OK, Connie, you inspired me to change Twitter plugins. I need to tweak it still, but you proved Andy’s plugin was working, so I went ahead too.
Connie Bensen says:
Hey Ari,
I’m glad that you found it helpful! I really like it.
I’ll have my sister leave a note with how she was able to make it display like it does. (I didn’t want the plug in showing a bird or saying – Follow me on Twitter. Which are the two options).
Keith Burtis says:
Connie, the blog looks great. Your sister did a great job and I may be in contact. The only thing I would add is the Subscribe to comments plug-in. That is my fave.
Great Job.
Keith
Sonny Gill says:
Connie! The blog looks fantastic!
Glad to see it up and running and what a great resource with the forum.
Congrats!
Bob Pease says:
Great job on the redesign. This is much more fluent than the last setup you were rockin. The blue is softer and everything is more organized. Great work!!
P.S. I love the idea of including twitter in the comments
Richard Daddi says:
This is wonderful Connie.
Nice work Heidi!!!
trannascolo says:
Жаль, что праздники ушли. Отличная запись. Отличный блог.