How do you like my new look?
No, I didn’t get another dye job.
Gaze your eyes upward and you’ll find my new banner design. I won the banner design from Meryl Evans, who was giving away five grand in prizes to celebrate her blog’s eighth birthday. I can’t wait to see what she gives away at her tenth birthday!
The banner was designed by Harry, the talented designer from Men with Pens. When I first received notification that I won a banner design, I was thanking the stars for aligning in my favor. One of the things I wanted to do after the SOBCono8 was to customize my theme, but being the ultimate procrastinator, I kept putting off the search for a designer. Lo and behold, I now had one at my beck and call.
It sure was fun working with Harry. Harry, do this. Harry, can you try that? Harry, can you make it darker? Harry, can you airbrush 40 pounds off and make me look like Christie Brinkley?
We had a little problem with geography and I ended up first in Canada, then in Michigan. Harry was working off the logo I created all by myself, from scratch at the left. Considering I spend half of my summers at Christie Lake in Michigan, I thought about leaving it there. But it was too much fun to order Harry to make more changes. So Harry’s slaving away and moving me to Chicago soon.
Harry also went above and beyond duty as he helped me install the banner on my blog. We worked through instant messaging and I asked him to walk me through the whole process. He could have easily installed it himself, but he was willing to take the time and guide me by the hand. Navigating the code was like walking through a minefield, and Harry kept me from blowing my blog up.
Would I pay money to have this done by Men with Pens? You betcha.
In other news, A Deaf Mom Shares Her World made it to the very top of Alltop in the Disability section. I’ve been quoted in Car and Caboodle and Diversity, Inc. recently. And the most exciting news of all: I’ve been asked to become a regular blogger for Momlogic and Chicago Moms Blog.
But if you’ll excuse me, I’ve got to run. I wish I was jetting off to an exciting blog conference or hosting a book signing, but there’s something more urgent to take care of.
The toilet’s clogged up.
Comments
11 responses to “Deaf Mom World Gets a New Look–Makes Alltop”
Congrats. The banner looks nice, kind of brightens the place up.
Good luck with the toilet.
Beamer
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Added. Nice work on this one. Btw, my blog is dofollow, stop by and grab a link. Walter
Hey, I had a lot of fun helping you out and the banner does look great. Beamer’s right, it does brighten the place up 🙂
Thank you so much for the high praise!
*goes back to working on geography skills*
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Looks fabulous here! And congrats on the new gigs.
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I love the look.
I thought you were going to put yourself in Canada!
And you would be welcome here by all.
Thanks for your nice comment on my blog. It means much to me, it truly does.
David
I love it! Bright, light and conveys the right attitude. I don’t think the design has anything to do with getting in Alltop. Content is what matters to Alltop. Plenty of sites on Alltop don’t have much to look at — but they contain wonderful insight like yours, Karen.
Ooops, I didn’t mean to imply there was a connection between the new design and Alltop– just meant to announce them both. Oh well!
No problem. Just sayin’. My blogs are on the list, too.
Meryl, your blogs rock!
Aw, shucks… thanks. Needed that. Horrible, no good, terrible week that got worst today just when I am leaving town.
Love the new look, and always love your stuff. You are true mom. Hard working, loving, courageous and willing to dive in and do stuff. So glad your blog is a continued success.
Heck, would you guest blog for me sometime? It doesn’t pay except for the comments. 🙂