DON’T. PANIC. EVERYTHING IS OKAY.
Nobody panic!
Don’t freak out!
It’s just the brand spankin’ new home of Marriage Confessions – same blog, same ramblings, same odd stories that make you feel better about your own life. Just a pretty new little website format, thanks to the kind folks at Flosites.
And I know what you’re thinking. “Now I have to get used to a whole new website?!?!”
BUT WAIT! This one is way more fun! Here, let me show you some of the new features that you’re really going to love…
THE BLOG CAROUSEL
See that little box thingy right above this blog post? That’s a fancy-pantsy little thing I like to call a Blog Carousel. I’m sure it has a technial, bloggy name but I like carousels. That little box is really for newbies to the site. You veterans probably won’t need to click around up there too often. It just alerts new visitors to the fact that there are multiple blogs on this site and then it gives a little introduction to each blog. If this website were a theme park, that would be the YOU ARE HERE sign.
CATEGORIES
I am forever getting emails asking me about where something that I’ve blogged about before can be found. Hopefully, this category sorter will help with those requests, since I’m usually not able to respond to all of them. Just scroll through the category bar and find the category that you’re looking for, then click on the picture. All the posts in that category should come up and you can peruse through until you find what you’re looking for. But what happens if you still can’t find what you need? Then you should head over to…
THE Q&A PAGE
Marriage Confessions has a brand new blog! Check out the Q&A page and see what you think. I get emails all the time asking quick little questions, either asking further information about something I’ve already blogged about or maybe asking my opinion about something. Lots of little questions and, to be honest with you, I just don’t have time to respond to all those emails – though I read every one of them! This new blog is the place to ask those questions. You leave a question and I’ll check in most days and answer as many as I can. Then, if your question requires a longer answer than just the short one I leave in the response, I can actually post full-length blog posts to this blog, too. The idea of this new blog is that you get to know what YOU want to know. It’s a place where readers have a say about the content. Cause you don’t need a chic new website to know that I’ve got some of the best readers around.
ARCHIVES
Finally, Marriage Confessions has archives! Check those out if you have some extra time or if you’re hunting a specific post from a specific point in time. Archives appeal to my Type A personality. I’m probably more excited about this than I should be.
TOP POSTS
The Top Posts sections are on all the main blogs (MC, Bean, and the Man Cave). These posts are automatically generated by the number of comments received on each post. So, the more comments a post gets, the more popular it is ranked in the Top Posts.
THE REVIEWS PAGE
I’ve had a review page for a while, but before it was just used for reviews of products I was being paid to promote. Now, this review page will become more apart of my website. Any product review I do – whether it is compensated or just a product I’ve found on my latest visit to Target – will be put on this page. That way, it should make it easier to find things that I’ve mentioned before. I’ll also be doing my baby registry review posts in there, too, which have been really popular with the mommy’s-to-be out there.
OLDIES BUT GOODIES
Marriage Confessions, the Growing Bean, and the Man Cave are just as they always have been. You can still find them by clicking through the bar at the top of the website. We also still have an About page and a Contact page, though both of those have changed in content and format. So, even though it all looks different, your favorite stuff is still there – front and center, like it should be.
So, that’s it really. I hope you guys like the new site as much as Chris and I do. We’ve been working with Flosites on this for about a year and a half and I can’t tell you how excited I am to finally be able to share it with you. A huge, cyber hug and thank you goes out to Ross, Jenny, Alina and the entire Flosites team. You all have made a tedious process exciting and interesting and you never rolled your eyes at my lack of technical knowledge… at least, you never rolled them in front of me. If I were a website, I’d be this website and I can’t thank you enough for capturing that.
I also have to thank my handsome partner-in-crime, my husband, Chris. This website redesign is really his accomplishment. He’s the one who sat on the conference calls with the designers and he’s the one who stayed up late every night for months working on the new site. And more importantly, he’s the one who picked me up by my bootstraps over the past few months when I really wanted to just quit writing anything. He’s the one who told me to suck it up and put my heart back into it. You know, Chris’ professional job is taking whimsical drawings of theater sets and turning them into bottom line, budgeted, profit-making scenery and shows. He actually spends his days turning fantasy into real life. So, it shouldn’t surprise me that he has, once again, managed to take some pie-in-the-sky idea I’ve had and turn it into an actual, obtainable, tangible something. So, thanks, Chris, for giving me a good kick in the rear and for picking up the reins when I was too tired to do it. You’re a good husband and an even better person. And you’re cute. And you smell good.
Lastly, I have to thank YOU GUYS – my awesome readers – for sticking around over the past three years as Marriage Confessions has grown and found it’s place in Cyber Land. Without your interest and continued support, there’d be no one to build a website for – so thank you. A million bajillion thank yous.
Now, go enjoy the new digs! Kick off your shoes, curl up in a nook somewhere, and make this place your home!
66 Comments
Mary
AH! I LOVE IT! Can Flosites decorate my house someday?
Brooke
Absolutely Love it! Looks amazing Katie and Chris!!!
Lindsay (YoungMarriedMom)
Gorgeous, Katie! I love the redesign. Super easy to navigate, and adorable!
Claudia
I love it ! Its looks great. We recently launched the new website at the University that I work at and I can understand all the hard work that you put into it. It looks great. Congratulations!
Ashley
Yay! 🙂 I’ve been checking to see what it would look like! Looks awesome.
Dawn
You guys did a great job. Congratulations!
Alaina
It looks so awesome! Congratulations!!!
Jen @ Life with Jen and Ronnie
New website is awesome! Love the new clean look!
Stephanie@ourmarriageadventure
Love it! Especially the Q&A place because I do randomly think of an old post I’ve seen and need info on. Great job Flosites, Katie, Chris, and Bean-Man
Maggie
Love the new site! You guys have done a fantastic job!!
Mindee@ourfrontdoor
Love it! Sleek yet pretty yet functional. Good job!
Elise
Love it! Congratulations, you guys! Flosites win!
Jaclyn
Love, love, LOVE the new site! It’s so pretty, and as others have said, very functional. I can’t wait to start spending even MORE time on here than I already used to. Checking out the Q&A next 😉 Congrats on the new site turning out so well after all that hard work!
Kate @ Love and Kate
LOVE IT!! Congrats you guys — all of your hard work has totally paid off. I love the new, clean look! Awesome job. LOVE.
Sara
Congrats you two! This looks fantastic.
Ginny
I love it, guys!! You did awesome!
Nikki
I was a little hesitant at first because I definitely do not like change…but I love it! What a great website. I look forward to your many posts ahead!
Kat @ Living Like the Kings
I LOVEEEE IT! 🙂 Congrats on the new site!
Heather M
I’ve been waiting for this to happen since you first mentioned it 🙂 This looks great!
Gin
I love the look of the new site! I just have one question for either you or everybody else. Is it just me, or is the whole thing ridiculously slow! On my super high speed internet at the University (so we are talking fast internet here), it is taking me at least a minute to download every page.
Chris
Thanks for your comment Gin! I’m glad you like the new site. Don’t worry about it being slow.. its just because we launched and you guys want to see it all at the same time! So the servers are really busy.. It will get better. Thanks! and Happy Reading!
Sabrina
I like the new ‘clean’ look about the new site, though I thought the more fun look of the old one really suited you guys just as well!
…and now to my (hopefully) constructive criticism: On a solely technical note, the pages take *forever* to load for me €“ making it kinda hard since patience is not exactly my strongest suit However, that of course won’t stop me from reading! Then another thing I don’t really enjoy is how I now need to scroll to read comments. Also, when I entered my comment, I had to write it in Word and then copy it over, because the cursor just went on and on, but the text box wasn’t scrollable once I wrote more than 4 lines (does that explanation make sense?). FWIW, I’m on FF 3.6, maybe that has something to do with it?!
As I said earlier €“ I really like the new site, so the above is just meant to give you something to work with, if you want to ïŠ
Chris
Hi Sabrina, thanks for your comment! Don’t worry too much about the load time… its because we just launched and all of our lovely readers all want to check it out at the same time. Which means our servers are very busy! Which is good! 🙂 I will take a look at the comment box and make sure it can expand when you type.. Thanks for reading! Enjoy the new digs.
Whitney
LOOKS GREAT! I’m loving it and it seems to be very user friendly. Beautiful, just beaaaaaaaaaaaaaautiful. 🙂
Marie
Love the new design! So cute. Congrats on all the hard work, guys!
JenniferLO
I LOVE the easy of reading the comments! It makes it so much more user friendly! I just love your blog!! I love you more than PW, and I’m not even kidding! Keep on sister!
Amy
The site looks great! Congrats on all of your hard work! I don’t know if this means anything, but I tried to put in a comment a few minutes ago, and I got a 500 error. I am sure you guys have a few bugs to work out still. 🙂
Kendra
Love the new website! Look forward to seeing what is happening in your lives each morning!!!
Sarah@Crazy Love Gamble-Style
Looks great! Congrats on the new digs!!
Breann
It looks awesome! I can only hope to have a blog like this some day!
Natalie
Looks great!! 🙂
Katie N.
CONGRATULATIONS! I’m so excited for you guys, and proud of all that you have accomplished! Can’t wait to peruse the new site 🙂
Suzie
Love it! Love you! You guys are so fun!
Camberley, The Bella Life
Love it!
We are currently redesigning our blog too. Your site is making me wish we would have gone with flosites. So easy to navigate!
-C
Kassidy
LOVE the new design! You guys did and awesome job! Congrats!
Alicia
Looks awesome! So easy to get around and it just suits your family perfectly!
Jen C
Looks great!! can’t wait to get home and actually have some time to play with all the new features. This work thing is taking up my time now unfortunately. Congrats again!! its gorgeous, as it should be for you guys 🙂 hugs!
Sabrina
woot woot (cheering on myself for getting a direct response) & thanks, Chris! …count on me to keep stalking you guys 🙂
Emily
looks great! I Love it!
Jen from OurSuperLife
Fabulous… as YOU are!
Diurla
Love the new site! It’s absolutely fab and I’m so happy for you 😀
Dyanna
Was so excited for this all day as I read Chris’ tweets…had to wait until I got home as the layout is very wonky when viewed on my Blackberry…..but now that I’m home I can say that I LOVE it….Great job guys….and Flosites!!
Laura
Katie, it looks awesome!!! yay!
Jenn
awesome new site guys! But haven’t you always had an archive site?
Ashley Harris
LOVE IT!!
Erin
Katie- I was just thinking the other day about when you were going to be changing your site. I remembered the post about you wanting it to be Anthropology, and I thought, gee, is she still doing that? I LOVE LOVE LOVE it! Congratulations!
Jen
This looks fantastic. I am so excited and happy for you guys.
Lori @ I Can Grow People
Katie, this site really “fits” you now! Did the blog roll die? I hope not–most of my traffic is from you!
admin
Good catch, Lori! We’re trying to figure out what needs to be on this new site, so I’ll be sure to work a blogroll in somewhere. Thanks for the reminder!
STEPHANIE
Love the new look! I have missed you!! Great job on the new site!
Julie
I’m totally jealous!
Lisa
Has it really only been 3 years?? I feel like I’ve been reading your blog forever! Congrats and love the new look!
Tabitha (From Single to Married)
Very cool – the new site looks great
Christina
It’s great! And the picture of you on your home page is gorgeous! I love that you say your husband’s job is to take the fantasy and turn it into reality…it makes me smile and think that you are such a great team!
Alaska Jordan
I love it!!! It looks pretty!
Meredith
LOVE the new digs! 🙂
Angella
wow…this comment box thing is pretty much the best thing ever!!!. Love it!
Amy
Loving the new website! I Love how easy it is to comment now (makes me want to comment more) and the freshness of the webpage. Only downside? The text size is a little small, and for grandmas like me who read your blog in bed before I go to sleep, I need the text to be just a little bit larger…or I need new glasses 😛
Fantastic, fantastic!
Kristin @ Our Life Beyond the Game
Yay, so fun! I can’t wait to look at all the fun new stuff. 🙂
Jamie
Im kinf of bummed that you can’t reply to comments anymore. I always go so excited when you responded to mine 🙁 With that exception, the new site is bad to the bone…..in a blue bowtie kind of way!!
Kiran
Love the new site! Everything looks so organized and the photos are fab 🙂
Ana
Hi Katie! Just loved your new website (for real) but let you tell one suggestion: can you change the color of the font from grey to black? It’s a little hard to read, my eyes get tired very easily… Hope you don’t take it as a bad thing! Congratulations 🙂
Melissa
WOW!! It looks amazing! Congratulations, you guys.
Megan (Best of Fates)
Well, I am panicking.
‘Cause I don’t like change.
And I don’t like that I can’t add tons of spaces in my comments.
‘Cause my comments are all about spaces.
But I’ll adjust.
Probably.
Msnels
love it! so clean and simple. the scrolly comments are neat!
Dee
Hi, Katie, I like the new availability of the various posts. Could you make the text slightly darker pls? The grey (black?) font is too light and makes it harder to enjoy your writing! And maybe a slightly larger comments roll so I can see more comments at one go 🙂