Hope Road

I like the new site!

Good job getting everything together for this new site (I myself would never attempt such a job and would have to ask my husband do it for me!;) It looks great and I look forward to seeing what is to come in your posts!

The new place looks great! I love it.

Looks fantastic!

Oooo, I love it! Beautiful job.

Nicely done Wordpress + domain names are a wonderful thing.

Just beautiful, Anna. I love the pictures.

Love it! Great job…..

I love the new site - it’s beautiful; you did a great job! May the Lord continue to bless you as you write for His glory and honour. It’s a blessing to my heart!

I run four blogs that are blogs, and some as websites, and I’m afraid that you won’t be able to point a wordpress.com blog to your new address because you don’t have access to their domain information. This is one of the reasons that bloggers need to consider getting their own domains early.

The part that really hurts is that the links on search engines still point to your old blog, not here. That’s hard to change.

Basically you could ask those that have linked to update their links (use Google to find those that have linked to you, either through their search engine or through site tools).

I would suggest that you think through how long you let your wordpress.com blog hang out there. People can still find that old blog and link to it. I would make sure that you post that you’ve moved, and if you can find someway to make sure that’s on every page, I’d leave it up for a month or so and then take it down.

I would definitely not leave it up indefinitely.

Everyone, thank you for the encouragement! I’m glad you like the new setup. This header came with the blog theme, but I like it so much for what my blog is about that I kept it.

MInTheGap, thank you for that info. I think I do need to take my old one down eventually.

Your new blog layout looks great, Anna. Are you still using Wordpress?

~Kelsey

Kelsey, thanks! I am still using WordPress.

Hey Anna, if there’s anything I can do to help, let me know. I’ve been in and around WordPress blogs for a few years and I know how to tweak CSS, PHP, etc. If you’re running a self hosted blog (your own space, plugins, etc) you’ll find that there’s a lot of great things that you now can do that you couldn’t on wp.com.

Love the new site! Especially the image you have for your banner - beautiful. Good job, Anna!

Looks great! Nice clean design.