When I started this blog nearly two years ago, I had no idea what I was doing, but I wanted to be able to get posts up quickly and easily and not fuss with the tech stuff. (Ironically enough, since I’m kind of a dork with that kind of stuff.) And so, I started my blog on Tumblr, and it served me well. I met some amazing people through Tumblr and I consider it the gateway drug to more traditional/long-form blogging.
I’ve learned a ton about blogging since then, and I wanted to give WordPress and all of its bells and whistles a try. Plus, I’m excited for its native commenting system, which is much more straightforward than Disqus is on Tumblr. (It’s still up now, but once the migration is 100% complete, I will be switching to the native WordPress commenting system.)
I wish I had screenshots of early Losing Weight in the City. It was really simple–green background with white letters, changed a few months later to pink background with white letters. Last year, I designed a header myself:
I thought it wasn’t bad for my designing it myself, but after a few months, I wanted something more. I put a lot of time and effort into my blog, and I wanted the design to reflect that. I started e-mailing with Blain and Kevin (who designed Tina’s, Sarah’s and Caitlin’s blogs.) They were really patient with my somewhat nitpicky questions and requests, and I am so happy with the finished product that you are looking at right now.
I hope that my header (and my blog in general) convey that I have fun in the city and still manage to stay healthy.
So, what do you think???
Yay!! I love it 🙂
Yay! It looks amazing, Theodora! I’m so excited for you and know you will love WordPress. Expect lots of comments from me. 🙂
Thanks! Expect lots of WordPress questions from ME!
It looks awesome! LOVE it!
Love it. Very cute!
Can you turn on full post reading for feeds? I read your blog in google reader and would like to be able to continue doing that!! Thanks 🙂
Hm, I will look more into this. It shows in my settings that it’s not on, but I see the same thing in Reader–the truncated posts.
Ahhhh I love it! Looks SO great.
LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE IT. (and now i can view your blog on my office computer. SCORE!)
Why couldn’t you before? Either way, glad you can see it now!
Love the new header! Looks awesome – so much so that I came out of lurking to comment on it 🙂
AHhhhhhh!! I love it! LOVE LOVE LOVE! Look how cute you and bailey dog look!!! 🙂 It is seriously great. One thing- and it might be the resolution on my computer, since I have two monitors with a shared desktop…the “tags” column are overlapping your pictures. Make sense?? Anyway, it is a GREAT start!
Congrats! I LOVE the new header, and hope you enjoy all of the cool tools the new platform allows 🙂
I may be asking you approximately one million questions. 😉
Major column issues in Firefox… unfortunately the sidebar is over all the posts! In my case, definitely not the monitor resolution; this sucker is massive. I can send a screenshot if you like?
Could you send a screenshot? That would be awesome.
Looks great!
I’m late to the party but I love it! 🙂