Welcome to My New Website
Hi everyone! I am totally thrilled beyond belief to announced the unveiling of my new website design. Who designed it? I did. That’s why I’m totally thrilled “beyond belief.” I love web design, but it consumes me (translation: distracts me from writing). So to finally have the new design up and (hopefully) looking great is a humongous weight off my shoulders.
I have to give a shout out to the amazing Vivian Lund of Electric Webs. I tried my best to customize the default WordPress theme to match my new web design, but the results were less than spectacular. Okay, I’ll admit it, they were disastrous. Well, maybe not that bad. I had all the elements, but know zilch about PHP and CSS, so there were all these little niggy-noggy things in my theme that shouldn’t have been there. Vivian came to my rescue and fixed the blog lickety-split. If left to me, the blog design would have taken another two centuries. So thank you, Vivian.
Please check out my news digs–and not just the blog. In fact, if you like book give-aways, I would suggest very strongly that you take a look around at the other pages. Because, in celebration of my new website, I’m holding a contest to give one lucky reader a free, autographed trade paperback copy of BORROWING ALEX. Yup, I’m generous. Can’t help it. But not so generous that I won’t make you do some work to find out how to enter the contest.
Contest ends Friday, April 18th, so get browsing.
Oh, and if you notice something absurdly wrong with my new website (as in something isn’t working, not that you hate it), please email me.
Cindy
“Accolades Accepted, Insults Ignored.”
April 7th, 2008 at 1:03 pm
Hi Cindy,
I really like your new site. The colors pop! And it’s easy to navigate… even for a technologically challenged person like me.
April 7th, 2008 at 1:30 pm
Love the new site!!! Congratulations!
And I sure did enjoy reading your Q&A section!
April 7th, 2008 at 1:46 pm
Love the new site! Good job!
I’ll say any insults since you’re going to ignore them anyway. LOL!
April 7th, 2008 at 1:51 pm
Darn it, Susan. I never thought of that!
April 7th, 2008 at 1:51 pm
I’m so excited that you have a comment-friendly blog. Oh, the many times I read T&T and felt the need to say something…well, I’ll try to keep my opinions under control. lol Love the new site!
April 7th, 2008 at 2:54 pm
I guess I need a web site but I am unpublished and figure one day I might get there and have a web site.
I like yours it is bright and cherry and easy to hop around. congrats,
Kathy
April 7th, 2008 at 3:31 pm
Cindy
your new website is fantastic–fun and flirty! Love the colors. Congratulations!
Marin
http://www.marinthomas.com
April 7th, 2008 at 3:49 pm
Lovely site, Cindy! Your hard work shows!
April 7th, 2008 at 3:56 pm
My aunt is soooo talented!!
love the pictures….
April 7th, 2008 at 4:58 pm
Cindy,
It looks great! Congratulations on your new site! Love the colors, and everything else. Now you can get back to writing.
Jeanmarie
April 7th, 2008 at 5:12 pm
Thanks again for the kind words, Cindy! It was a pleasure working with you. Your site is beautiful, and I love the photos.
Viv
April 7th, 2008 at 5:43 pm
In case anyone’s wondering, I’m the talented aunt.
Thanks for dropping by, Chelsea.
My niece is very talented herself. A fantastic photographer.
Thanks for the comments everyone. Now I don’t feel like such a loser my first day on the blog with no comments. Yes, belonging to eight million listservs is a Godsend sometime.
April 8th, 2008 at 7:02 am
Great site updates, Cindy! (I’m here from the Secrets loop.) The photo scroller is really nifty.
April 13th, 2008 at 10:32 am
I visited your site then went away for a few days. I come back and – BOOM – you have a shiny new site. Love it!!! Great job.
April 13th, 2008 at 5:05 pm
Thanks, HelenKay. I think I’ve been threatening to re-design my site for one or two years. It’s about time I finally did it!
April 13th, 2008 at 8:54 pm
You did a great job.