Updates to the site ^_^
Hello everyone!
So by now you’ve probably noticed the little changes I’ve bee making to the website. My aim is to make it easier to read and nicer for you guys!
These are the changes that I’ve made so far:
- Widened the middle column so there is more room for the post and bigger pictures
- Changed the fonts to a more readable colour and size
- Changed the middle column background colour to make it more readable
- Changed the header’s colours to make the site brighter and more readable
- Widened the side bars slightly so I can add some more bits and pieces
- Added a new page called “Snapshots” which is a gallery of my favorite photos in the categories Outfits, Nail Art, Deco and Crafts. This way if you just want some quick inspiration you don’t need to look through a bunch of posts ^_^
- Added a new page called “Violet Vision” to keep a compiled list of all of my videos in one place. I still need to add a couple of videos to that section this week.
- Did a lot of work on the back end of things to make the site run quicker and more efficiently. It’s never going to be the quickest site on the web due to all the pictures but with the work I’m putting in it should load in a reasonable amount of time.
- Added a mobile version of the website. Now if you are logging on to the site with an iPhone/Blackberry/Other smart phone you won’t have to wait forever for the site to load, you should see a cut down version with minimum formatting. All of the pictures inside the posts should be in tact just smaller and more optimized for your phone ^_^ If you don’t like it you can turn it off at the bottom of the screen and view normally.
One cool thing you can do if you have an iPhone is actually make a bookmark which appears as an App on your home screen :D When you’re on the site just tap the “+” icon on the bottom and click “Add to Home Screen”. It will add a cute little button with my logo to your other apps and next time you want to visit instead of going through Safari, just click the app!
- Moved the Search page at the top to within the FAQ page as no one ever used it. I will also be adding a smaller search section to the side bar so it can be seen from every page later this week.
I think that about covers most of the issues we talked about in the poll the other day, if you have any other comments of suggestions just let me know in the comments.
On a complete side note, I’ve just gotten a LookBook.nu account so if you’ve got an account come and friend me :D
So what do you guys think? Also tomorrow post is going to finally be the tutorial on the hairstyle from the above outfit… I know you’ve all been waiting for that!!
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Snapshots section is fun, get a fill of pretty shiny things without reading when i’m feeling lazy, hehe.
If you have a spare lookbook invite could you send it my way please and i would be very happy :)
Heehee thank you, I’m glad you like it ^_^ I’m not sure how many invitations for Lookbook I have or if they are limited, I’ll have a look into it and if I have enough for everyone who’s asked I’ll send them :)
your blog is beautiful! I’d like to subscribe to the site lookbook but maybe I need an invitation from a member of the site, you can help me? thank you very much
Thank you ^_^ You can comment and favorite on Lookbook via your Facebook or Twitter account, you only need an actual account to post looks. I’m not sure how many invitations I have or if they are limited, I’ll have a look into it and if I have enough for everyone who’s asked I’ll send them :)
Just so long as nothing important happens in the right column as it’s scrolled off the screen on my netbook. :)
Oh really? What size screen is your netbook if you don’t mind me asking? If the right column is off the screen you should just be able to scroll if you want to see the right side ^_^ Let me know if you can’t scroll and I’ll take a look and see what I can do to fix it :)
I can scroll to see it, don’t worry about that! but probably won’t do it often unless you say “oh, hai, there’s something in the right sidebar” :) By the looks of it it’s all the ads. No probs to me then, but maybe to the advertisers!
Ah I see now! Haha don’t worry about scrolling, the most important thing is the middle where the posts go ;) I promise if anything interesting happens on the side bar I’ll shout out OH HAI THAR! ^_^
for the snapshots, do u think you can put the post related 2 it? like how you make all the crafts
I’ll add it to the to-do list but there are several hundred photos so it might take some time. In the mean time you could just use the search function in the faq section :)
i just noticed your “follow me” twitter button! omg so cuteeeee!
Haha thank you ^_^ I like having completely custom icons!
The mobile version is so easy and nice! Love it!
Your lookbook photos are as lovely as ever <3
Thank you :D Yay! I’m so glad that people are using it. Hopefully this will make it much better for everyone! <3
Wow! Everything is looking so nice! <3
Thank you!
Ahh the site is looking really good now Violet! (not that it was horrible before of course!). Love the iPhone theme as well – I have to figure out how to customize the icon. Hmm.
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Yay! I’m glad you like :D Did you mean that my icon isn’t coming up or you want to customize the icon on your site? If it’s my icon that’s not working I’ll have a look into it, it should just come up automatically. If you want to know how to customise yours let me know and I’ll show you ^_^
hey violet i heart your site! its uber girly and hime ^^
your hair is cute ^^ thanks for the latest tutorial =)
Aww thank you so much, your comment made me smile! I hope the tutorial helps ^_^
Your site looks great! And YAY for the iPhone app! I’m using it now, and how cute does your icon look on my itouch?? Love it!
Mwahaha the explosion of cute will take over everyone’s iphones XD
Hi!
I love your site, it’s really informative and cool!
Perhaps you have heard of this (I’m not sure if you had…), but this site: http://www.cutoutandkeep.net/, is really cool, it’s all about how to stuff
anyway, keep up to cool work!
I’m really glad you enjoy my site. Yep I’ve seen that site before :) Thanks for the link!