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Hello, Beautiful!
I am so excited to finally be able to show you what has been going on behind the scenes here at goodLife {eats} for months! Purr Design (aka Love and Olive Oil) and I have been hard at work transferring the blog to WordPress with a brand new design and template. I am so happy with how everything looks and I hope you find the changes to be positive as well. Thank you, Purr!
*Drumroll*…. Allow me to give you a quick tour of the new goodLife {eats}!
Check out the menu across the top. Here you’ll find:
- About – details about me, my family, and how goodLife {eats} came to be.
- Contact – contact info. Email, Twitter, Facebook…etc. If you want to get in touch with me, check out this page.
- FAQ – questions that I’m often asked via email. I try to answer them here so everyone can benefit. Don’t be shy about asking questions, but please check here before you ask. I may have already answered it.
- Recipe Index – new and improved recipe index! I hope you love this as much as I do. No longer just a list of links to the recipes on the site. Click on the category of interest (i.e. desserts) and you’ll see a photographic index of all the related recipe posts, plus a link to them.
- Work With Me – if you’re a brand then this page is where you’ll find ways we can work together, examples of how I’ve worked with other brands before, advertising information, sponsorship opportunities, media features, and my disclosure.
- Freelance – an organized list of links to my freelance articles on other sites.
- Friends – an affordable place to advertise your blog or small business.
Check out the tabbed menu at the top of the side bar (the area to the right of the posts). Here you’ll find:
- A welcome message from me.
- My most recent Flickr uploads.
- A search form – if you can’t find what you’re looking for in the recipe index, check here (or vice versa).
- Subscription options
- Recipe and post tags (i.e. topics I’ve assigned for the posts).
Within the posts there are several new features available:
- Printable recipes. Yes, let me say that again: PRINTABLE RECIPES! So many of you have been asking for this. Now you can easily print the recipes in each post without having to copy & paste or print the entire page.
- Link sharing options. Want to share the post via Twitter, Facebook, Email? Click the post link and scroll to the bottom of the post and there are icons with links to do that. You can also click the star to add the post to your favorites and click the thumbs up to like the post on Facebook.
- Reply to comments. We can have a much better conversation now. You or I can reply to comments on each post and you’ll receive an email when someone replies to you so you don’t have to come back and check to see if I (or anyone else) answered your question.
Check out the footer at the bottom of the page. Here you’ll find:
- My weekly meal plan, and links to recipes (if they’re available online)
- The most popular posts on the blog
- Recent comments
I’ll be putting together a survey soon with some questions about the new site, but in the meantime PLEASE let me know if you’re getting any errors, if there is something you’d like to see that I didn’t think of, something you love (yes, I’m a sucker for positive feedback), or something that makes the reading experience difficult for you (e.g. font to small or too light colored, etc).
Note about subscriptions: The RSS feed and Email Subscription options should transfer over from blogger. If you’re not receiving them, you might want to go ahead and re-sign up. If you were following me via blogger dashboard, you’ll probably want to choose a new subscription option.
I’ve gotten most of the images sorted out and uploaded for the recipe index, but I’m still working on converting all the old posts to printable recipes. I have to put the title, ingredients, and recipe in a special form to do this, but I will convert them all…eventually. All new posts will contain the printable option.
Hello! I'm Katie Goodman, author of GoodLife Eats Etc. where I share what I find in my life. A mix of great recipes, family memories, adventures, good reads, and anything else that I love is what you will discover here.
This looks lovely! Moving/rebuilding a site is no small task! Congrats on making it through with flying colors.
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Your website looks great! Congrats on making it through your redesign!
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Looks amazing! I love the top right corner box, very clever. Also, I like the footer links, the menu, posts and the comments. And I love love love the clean look, very fresh!! I have always admired your look, and I didn’t know if you were able to get any more amazing.. and you just did! I absolutely adore you and your blog.
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Nice job!
I like you so much I added you to “My Favorite Things” at http://www.azillionrecipes.com The middle revolving box!
We just did a whole redesign too so I totally feel for you. Good thing for us we cook with booze. I needed it!
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It’s just gorgeous! So clean looking and easy to navigate! LOVE your logo, too!
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katie – it looks good, but fyi – i ried to click on the header links and it did not so anything.
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Katie replied: — August 30th, 2010 @ 10:45 PM
Hi Nikki – thanks for letting me know. If you clear your browsing history and refresh does it work then? It is working fine for me.
Congrats on the great new look!
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I love the new site!! I have always enjoyed coming to your site for new and innovative recipes and now it’s even better! You rock, the sites ah-mazing and keep up the wonderful work! It’s very much appreciated!!!
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I really like the new look of the site and the blog, particularly the new recipes area! Big kudos!
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i’ve tried refreshing. how do you clear your browsing history?
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Katie replied: — August 31st, 2010 @ 2:35 AM
In firefox it is under tools > clear recent history
Just found your site, can’t wait to try some of your recipes.
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LOVE the new look! I must say I am a bit biased, as the wonderfully talented Lindsay designed ErinsFoodFiles as well! I love your color scheme, and the overall cohesion of the blog. And the Weekly Menu at the bottom is a great idea, and very inspiring!
A little FYI, the link you posted to your About Me page doesn’t work. Might wanna fix that.
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I love it, gorgeous!
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So awesome! The new site is clean and beautiful!
Really really nice work.
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It looks wonderful. I know that you must be so excited
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Looks great and easy to use!
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How I LOVE this new design! Wow! I can’t say enough how beautiful and sleek it is! Great job.
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It looks beautiful! I have to be honest, you’re making me want to switch to wordpress, something I swore I’d never do!
I love the layout, it’s so clean
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What a gorgeous new design – I love how clean and crisp it is and all the new features!
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Looks beautiful. Perfect! Love the recipes, layout, pictures!
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I’m lovin’ it! Really snazzy uplift here. I’m really bowled over by the layout. the tabs window is especially cool, although I would have loved to see you put This Week’s Menu up higher! the’re great to get in a load of information quickly and feed hungry eyes =) love love hanging out here =)
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