If anyone is still seeing these comments I’d love to hear your thoughts on the new home of Bibliophile’s Retreat which will I hope be a permanent one now. Still perhaps to evolve even more as time progresses I would hope since perfect is pretty much a pipe dream in the world of technology and real life as an imperfect human who along with the rest of homosapien life on this planet is constantly discovering just how far I truly am from being done learning new things and progressing forward in areas that I already know at least a bit about. What fun would life be if all we cared or bothered to do was plant ourselves and become glued to a stationery position in knowledge and abilities rather than continuing to learn and evolve in our understanding and abilities then sharing that knowledge with others who are following along our path a few steps or perhaps feet behind. Just like those people we’ve met along our own path that are a few steps or feet ahead and helping us to continue on behind them as they discover new concepts and such.

Again a HUGE thanks to James and Harry for their input and all the rest who stopped by to share bits of their own expertise and learning by giving opinions and input about my then rather amateurish looking site. I stumbled on the screenshot from this old drive and could hardly believe that at one time I thought it was a wonderful layout and design. But then I’ve learned a lot about myself over the past months and years too. The constructive comments all of you made about what you did or in most cases back then DIDN’T like were taken to heart and I can only hope that eventually those comments and my own efforts at improving the site have immensely improved the first impression to readers and “accidental tourists”.

I was able to find a three column layout that I liked and switch out the header, colors, background, favicon and even the RSS button with a little help from GIMP and my digtal camera at no cost to myself other than a few hours of scrolling through CSS codes, FTP shuffling and of course the all important back-up of everything not nailed down. While it took me three WP updates to figure out I could save myself a good chunk of time by simply saving my modified theme settings, plugins, and code as well as backing up the databse which I did remember the first time – I think the big MOVE helped as much as time and some constructive input from all of you to evolve my hobby blog from looking like one to a much more professional and hopefully practical as well appealing to surfers/readers. If anyone is still seeing these comments I’d love to hear your thoughts on the new home of Bibliophile’s Retreat which will I hope be a permanent one now. Still perhaps to evolve even more as time progresses I would hope since perfect is pretty much a pipe dream in the world of technology and real life as an imperfect human who along with the rest of homosapien life on this planet is constantly discovering just how far I

Kelly, Wendi and Jenny -
I finally got a few hours together to mess around with my design. I hope it is now much easier to read.

Guys and anyone else that isn’t as into Purple as I am -
I hope I’ve made the color scheme a little more neutral but kept the soothing feel and I couldn’t give up my “tropical island” concept it was too perfect for my title and content.

John -
Thanks for the tip on the pics.

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Speaking of hits, any chance you guys could take a whack at my blog, Technosyncrocity? I just got the new domain up yesterday and haven’t had a chance to push all my Blogger posts to the new site, but the design’s finished.

The delay in getting to mine will give me time to post a few entries and give more meat to the blog.

You can find Technosyncrocity at the rather-obscure URL technosyncrocity.com.

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All the best with your blog Melissa!

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