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Tinkering With the Blog

12 Feb

I’ve been playing around with updating the theme and layout of the blog again, and tidying pages and widgets in preparation for Clear As Day’s release in April. I’m not ready to upgrade to a completely custom website, so in the meantime I wanted something clean and easily read,  not too cluttered, not too plain.

Not quite sure if I’m completely happy with this bolder contemporary layout yet, but has most of the features I wanted in a theme and the look is growing on me.

What do you like to see at an author’s website?

What do you think of the new look here?

Photo: lauren lank

A New Look

26 Feb

Cleaning house here on the blog and decided to freshen up the look with a new theme and changed from Vigilance to Koi with an alternate background. (Otherwise known as procrastinating when I should be writing.) So far, the only hitch has been my little scatters of blue flowers must go. Even when I change their background to transparent, the background is showing up as white here. Sigh. So, those will be slowly eliminated, unless I find a fix for it.

So, what do you think of the change?

Monday Cheer – I Shall Name This Place–Err–Rename…

23 Mar

funny pictures of cats with captions

Well, I changed the name of my blog. And picked a pen name.

I’ve been debating these two items with myself since August and I’ve had the worst time making up my mind. (I’m terrible at restaurants with a menu, as well.)

I wanted a pen name, even though I’m not published yet, as it seems more appropriate to keep writing and private lives separate. My mom will be happy with my using Babette. I have to say, however, it feels odd calling myself something different, even if the name is is made up of my real middle name and my husband’s first name.

I had really liked my original blog name More Than Magic, as it fit my writing and it’s a working title for one of my novels, but I found it was a name already being used by several other entities and things, so it needed changing. Of course, now I’m having doubts about the new name Perhaps Magic. At least it’s not common and it looks pretty in the header. lol.

How did you come up with your pen names and website names?

Decisions, Decisions

19 Feb

funny pictures

Well, I had just tidied up most of this blog and was fairly happy with the Neat theme with all its dark blues. Then WordPress had to publish its new Vigilance theme today.

Vigilance has a few things I wanted that Neat didn’t and Neat has some things I like that Vigilance doesn’t. I really liked the header text and the cozy dark blues and flowers of Neat, but the columns were narrower than I liked. Vigilance seems awfully bright with all the white. I think Vigilance will be easier on the eye to read with its serif font and wider columns. I also like having the page tabs up in the header, rather than the tiny links in a page widget.

I’m going to give this theme a try. Of course, changing made some of my formatting go all wonky and I had to change my header picture because the wider format made the best resolution I could find of my favorite picture pixilate.

Sigh.

If you happened to have seen my site with the Neat theme before, let me know which you like better. Thanks.

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