Surprise!

March 4, 2008 @ 8:17 am | Filed under: Blog

If you subscribe to this blog’s feed, you might want to click through today and take a look at my brand-spankin’-new website and blog design. This project has been in the works for a long time, and I’m very excited to unveil it today. Didn’t my designer, the lovely Emily Carlin of Swank Web Style, do a fabulous job?

I’m still working on sidebars and pages and things, but y’all are welcome to pull up a chair and visit a while while I finish unpacking. If you are a feed subscriber, you don’t have to change a thing—your feed has already been redirected to the new digs. (Which is how you found this post, of course!)

If you would like to update my link in your blogroll (for which: thank you very much), the new URL is: melissawiley.com/blog. Easy-peasy, right?

As for my Typepad site: it’s not going anywhere. We have a ton of family bloggity stuff over there, so that account is staying put. The original Bonny Glen blog will stay just as it is, archives, sidebars, and all. I’ll put a note over there to redirect folks to the new site, but you can still dig through those archives and leave comments and whatnot. But everything that is there is also now here. All the old posts (including the entire run of Lilting House) and comments are right here.

All new posts will appear here, not there.

So welcome, welcome, welcome! Make yourselves at home!

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  1. JoVE says:

    The redesign looks great!

  2. Melissa says:

    Thanks, JoVE! You are my very first commenter over here!

  3. beth says:

    Looks great! And thanks for the feed update notice. :)

  4. Lisa says:

    It looks great, Lissa!

  5. Jennifer says:

    Hi Lissa – I love the font, so pretty! Everything looks great.

  6. Beck says:

    It looks BEAUTIFUL! My favorite colours!

  7. Anna says:

    This is really lovely. I admit, I was surprised to see your name on bloglines. It was a nice surprise!

  8. Amy says:

    Love it! Welcome to your new home. :)

  9. WendyinVA says:

    Wow! *Very* nice… :o )

  10. Jessica says:

    It’s Beautiful!! I love it!!

  11. Christine M says:

    A lovely new site! Congratulations!

  12. patience says:

    Oh Lissa, it’s so beautiful! A mixture of graceful antiquity and a dash of funkiness. I love it.

  13. Alli ~Mrs. Fussypants says:

    I Love it! Absolutely wonderful!

  14. Rebecca says:

    Wow! It is just beautiful! I love both the blue as well as the pink. :)

  15. Betsy says:

    I love it, it is very beautiful! I am a little jealous! ;0)

  16. Melissa says:

    Yes, Emily really did a great job, didn’t she? She’s a gem.

  17. Beth says:

    Oh, this is just lovely — beautiful colors and fonts.

  18. clarice says:

    Melissa, your site looks wonderful. I love it !!!! Clarice

  19. emily says:

    I love it! I love the colors and fonts, and especially the little silhouettes in the sidebars.

  20. KC says:

    It’s very pretty!!

  21. Cici says:

    lovely! of course, i’m always late late late and was reading my google reader (newest posts first)…and so, i’m late.

  22. Kris Bordessa says:

    Wowza! Veddy, veddy nice!

  23. Motherhen says:

    Oh. I love your new website…it is so refreshing for the eyes. Thanks ,too, for the Journey North info…my 3 oldest kiddos are really getting into it…even the math-phobic 10 year old…I don’t think she realized she was really doing math!And, glad you are enjoying sunny California the long growing season is one of the things I love best about my home state!~ Motherhen

  24. Helen - MaryVitamin says:

    Stunning!
    What a pleasant surprise.

  25. Nancy Paulsen says:

    Hi Melissa, nice new website.

    I found this on the vital records of Marblehead Massachusetts: Mary D Snow and William N. QUINER, married Aug 21, 1836. And then 2 lines above it: Marmaduke Snow and Annis WALLIS, married June 1, 1729. I’ve found a whole wad of QUINERs in and around Lynn and Marblehead Massachusetts, at least in the early censuses. Somethin to make you say hmmmm, I think?

    Nancy

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