Welcome to the new Tree Bark Jacket!
I’ve pretty much been working on the new site day and night. It’s finally finished – I hope you all like it!
- I’ve added a contact page that shows you how to contact me:
- I have a new email address, so you can now email me at my treebarkjacket address instead of my personal address. I don’t mind people using my other address of course, but this is so much nicer!
- I’ve also added a contact form so that you can send questions and suggestions straight from this site.
- Finally, I’ve added an upgraded version of cbox in the sidebar, so that you can leave me short messages on the fly.
- You should now have the ability to edit your comments (no more typos or double posts preserved for all to see), plus you can add smilies to your comments!
- The subscribe button in the sidebar should give you a whole list of different subscription options, including email. I need to get a Feedburner feed happening at some point but it wasn’t working for me while I’ve had my site in Maintenance Mode, so I’ll worry about that later.
- You should also be able to choose to subscribe to comments on individual posts.
- TBJ now has a favicon – a Tree Bark Jacket! Just for fun.
- You should now see some possibly related posts on the end of each article.
- I’ve installed a plugin called Better Search, which is a hundred times better than the default WP search function. It should serve up results to you based on relevance, not just every post (in date order) that contains your search terms (ick). I really wanted to make this site more user-friendly than the old one, so I hope this plugin helps.
- Categories and tags – I promise I will be diligent this time and always include a category! Luckily I have installed a plugin that won’t let me post an article without a category. Exactly the kind of thing that I need.
- If you find a broken link, image, or something generally seems to not be working, please contact me.
- If you’d like to be on my blogroll, please send me your link (and if you would like, a 202 x 44 banner).
- Please update your bookmarks, links, and feeds.
- Please be gentle on me if you spot any sloppy code. I honestly don’t really know what I’m doing. I’m always willing to learn how to do things better, but for now if you could ignore my disgraceful abuse of deprecated html, that’d be swell..
- Avatars on comments – if they’re not working, I’ll have to fiddle with it.
- My comments in a different colour – I had problems with this, it’s not hugely important but it would be handy to be able to tell my comments apart at a glance.
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Yep, gotta fix the avatar thing…
Woo.. now I just have to get it to colour my comments in..
It looks wonderful! Grats on all your hard work paying off
I LOVE YOUR HEADER.
It is SO awesome, well done.
It looks great!
I LOVE the header, it is absolutely beautiful! And Grats on getting it done. I use Firefox for my browser, and it looks great here!
Well done, Keeva!
Wow, not only does the site look great but all your hard work shows!
Very nice. I particularly like the header photo but the organization is great and in the long run will be more important.
Bet you are glad it is all over, though.
Looks really good. Grats on that!
Especially love the graphics, have you made that yourself?
Oooooh… so purty!!!
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Thanks guys!
Lots of people have asked me about the header. The original image came as part of the theme, and I couldn’t pass it up. A tree and a moon? How perfect!
It was a lot darker though, and had some extra things that I didn’t want – like a couple of hot air balloons in the sky, etc.
I lightened and softened it to fit with the browns I wanted for the background, took out the balloons, and obviously added in the enormous blue-eyed tree…
I do love a good Photoshop project.
Looks as though avatars still aren’t working (unless you’re signed into WP, probably). I’ll have to look into that.
Hmm, it also looks like the titles on posts are pushed over to the right in IE6.
Why do browsers have to be different?
There’s a way to make stylesheets like the styles_ie.css you did before, that only IE6 (or any specific version of IE) will include.
That way you can make something like a styles_ie6.css and make IE6-specific fixes in there. The whole process is a bit messy (there are several alternate ways of doing it), but that’s probably the most organizationally ‘clean’ way.
Hi Keeva,
I love your new site. I think your host might still be a bit iffy because I tried to comment on this article yesterday and lost the connection and my comment
Great to see that you haven’t completely lost the look of the original TBJ and I too love the new banner.
I’ve updated our link to your site and feed on our Blogroll.
I’m using Firefox and the only thing that looks a little off is the H3 when they turn onto a second line like “12 Responses to “Welcome to the new Tree Bark Jacket!”. The second line is overlapping the first. Perhaps try:
H3 {line-height:110%}
And just try some values until it looks right.
Nice work!
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Cog – that’s what I was planning to do. It’s just annoying to have to do it :/
Cassandri: I noticed that about the heading too – I’ll have to fix it up later. Lots of little tweaks to do, but mostly working.
My host has been having a lot of problems this week – very bad timing for the launch of the site – hopefully they get it sorted soon. It seems better today.
Thanks everyone for being patient
WoW! It looks absolutely amazing Keeva!
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Site looks amazing Keeva, loving it, well done!!
Might get around to redoing my WoW blog soon, it’s full of dust, cobwebs and nasty looking spiders…. good grief…
Congrats on the new site, looks fantastic!
I’ve been watching your blog for awhile, and can’t wait to see what else you get going here!
Awwwwww ! That’s beautiful !!!
I absolutely love it.
I didn’t find any problem with the layout for now, I’m using Chrome there and it looks ok.
Gratz again ! Really !
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The new site looks wonderful! Congratulations on making the leap!
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