Seeing as I am now 22 weeks pregnant and therefore no longer in any shape to be running downhill with two toddlers and a laptop on my person, it was time to spruce up the ole blog banner. Fortunately, once again, Luke happily came to my rescue. Having free design services under your very own roof is nothing to sneeze at, people.
For those of you following via feed reader, here is the latest look:
I keep telling my husband to add his mugface somewhere so that I don't appear to be an unwed mother with poor access to birth control, but my pleas fall on deaf ears. One day I may have no choice but to Photoshop in a picture of Joshua Jackson, just to appear respectable.
The sacrifices I am willing to make for my children, I swear.
Anyway, as if this news weren't exciting enough, I have finally created a Facebook fan page for this website! It was my big project for the week, and it took me two tries to get it right, because the first time around I done got myself confused by all the options Facebook offered when it came to categorizing pages, so I went with "Writer/People," because hello! I am a writer. Am also person! That's two for two right there. And immediately I was so pleased with myself that I shot off invites to anyone on my Friends list that I thought would give a damn, and it was only when I attempted to finetune my profile that I realized maybe I had made the wrong choice. But for some reason unbeknownst to me, Facebook doesn't allow you to recategorize a page; you either resign yourself to being inappropriately labeled or delete the page and start over. With two days in and only nine likes, I figured it was safe to scrap my early effort and start fresh.
Mission accomplished.
I'm not really sure what I'll do with this page yet; I will definitely add links to my posts as they're published here, so if you are on Facebook a lot and don't like having to jump around to access content you like, this is a pretty sweet deal for you, isn't it? I may also post random thoughts and questions as they come to me just to spice things up. At this point, I'm also open to suggestions, so if you have any, fire away.
Next big project: deciding on an ad network. Right now I only know of a couple: BlogHer and Google. So if you have experiences with or opinions on either one, let me know that, too.
What a wonderful new banner by our favorite artist. The three (four) of you are characterized very nicely.
I wish you much serenity. :)
Posted by: Grandma Molly | March 04, 2011 at 11:18 AM
So does Luke ever do freelance work and create banners for others?? :-) My husband is also a writer and REALLY needs something better for his blog.
Posted by: Brandy | March 04, 2011 at 12:49 PM
Oh and I LOVE the new banner and have "Liked" you on facebook. If you would like to check out what a fellow Hoosier writer is up to my husband's facebook fan page is: http://www.facebook.com/pages/What-are-you-looking-at/101535989928260?sk=wall#!/pages/Gabriel-Beyers/197440826952772 and his blog (the one we need a better banner for) is http://gabrielbeyers.blogspot.com/
Posted by: Brandy | March 04, 2011 at 12:51 PM
The new banner is fantastic! I'm going to fan you on Facebook right now.
Posted by: Jen L. | March 04, 2011 at 07:07 PM
I don't know tons about google, but I was with BlogHer for a while and I really liked them. You can pick what type of content is allowed to be advertised (I think I've read of health-conscious folks banning fast food ads, stuff like that) They're also really personal...when my posting dropped off, an actual human being reached out to me to make sure everything was ok. It was a nice touch.
Posted by: Kate | March 04, 2011 at 11:12 PM
Love the new banner. I agree, Luke should be in there too.
Posted by: debi | March 05, 2011 at 03:43 PM
I LOVED the last banner. Seriously made me smile every time I saw it! This one is awesome too! Your hubby is very talented!
Posted by: Julie | March 07, 2011 at 08:39 PM