Welcome to the new WUHS! It has been almost 18 months since our last blog face lift! For whatever reason I don’t save screen shots of how the blog looked before each change so don’t have much to show you in terms of ‘Before’ pics. With this change I’ve tried to make the blog more organized and functional so that you can find things without having to look too hard.
As you already would have noticed the content area and the side bars are much wider. Another feature that I personally like is the secondary menu. You can find a lot of the ‘Categories’ in here with individual pages for each.
That means you no longer have to browse through the Side bar or Archives to find a post. I still have those on sidebars for folks who are used to looking things up that way. Also new is the Google share button and profile widget. By no means is the face lift complete, I still have to tweak some more things but I’m super happy and proud that I DIY’ed this all by myself. For a gal who runs the other way if someone utters the word ‘coding’ this is HUGE!
I used the Genesis Framework from StudioPress.com with the Blissful Child Theme. To give you an idea of the amount of work this is what the blog would have looked like had I kept the off the shelf theme format.
So there you have it folks. Do look around and let me know what you think or if you run into any issues.
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Great Looking Site; good JOB on the customization
Thanks Sherry!
Wow!!! Impressive ..can’t believe that you did this without any coding knowledge!!!!
Thanks a lot Sarah, it sure was painful but worth it I think.
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Love the new look Vidya…….worth all the time and effort you put into. Great Job!!!!
Thanks Sruthi.
Wow, nice. I really like the look of your pages based on label / tag. Does the format come with the template or you had to individually build all those links with the thumbnail ? Either way looks awesome and easy to navigate.
Thanks Somu. Do you mean teh secondary menu pages? If so, I manually did them after which I found out that I could do a similar thing if create a gallery. But like manual this look better.
Vidya
Yeah I meant the secondary menu. The ones that have “gardening” and other menus. These are individual pages where you manually built the thumbnails with the link ? That would have been quite an effort am sure.
Yes that is right. I manually built the link. I already had that in my earlier version. It is an effort the first time you do it. As I add posts I periodically add new ones to the list.
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You’re a mastermind , I just love the new look.i hope to get half as good.. I’m still trying to figure out the. Widget thingy.. Chuckles.. Great job
Thank you. Widgets are actually pretty easy on the wordpress.org blogs. You just add either an image or text widget to your side bar and the respective code (for ads) or image links. Not sure how it works in wordpress.com blogs though.
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