After more hand-wringing than I would like to have had, I’ve settled on this new format for the blog.
It’s somewhat different and I’m sure I’ll be tweaking it in the next few days, but here is some information about it.
Donation button allows you to support this blog and keep it ad-free. I spend at least one workday a week on the blog, not counting stitching and reading time. I’m committed to keeping this blog the most comprehensive one on needlepoint, just the way you want it. But doing that is expensive, so I decided to ask for your support in order to keep Nuts about Needlepoint ad-free. Donations can be in any amount and a monthly donation of $5.00 or more will get you a complementary pattern each month you donate.
Black/Grey Boxes along the top are the categories. You only see the stand-alone and parent categories here. Sub-categories, such as “pillows” under finishing are in dropdown menus.
Small Caps under Category Boxes are the permanent page links that used to be in the top right corner.
Latest Story is always the most recent post and it is always at the top.
Other stories are below this. The five most recent stories are on the front page. If there is a picture for any of them, it will be in the excerpt as well.
The middle column has a description of the blog, my project list, the calendar, and the blogroll.
The right column has the thread credit count, recent comments, and the archive list.
I’m still hoping to figure out a way to highlight a few posts from the archives somewhere on the page, but I need to find a tool that does this. For now, at the ned of every post, there is a list of related posts that have older content.
Let me know what you think and what you’d like to see.
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Hi Janet,
I love the new look with everything easily found. I also haven’t had the IE trouble I had previously trying to access nuts-about-needlepoint. Congratulations on this great update.