Welcome to my new website! Over the past several weeks, I have spent dozens of hours designing this new site, while still keeping my old site live for visitors. I am thrilled to finally unveil the new layout.
What do you think? Feel free to leave your feedback in the comments section. There is also a Contact Ellie form in the Meet Ellie drop down menu. Messages sent via that form will go straight to my email inbox.
Andrea Boggs
Cool site
nashvillewife@gmail.com
Thanks, Andrea!
Ellie
Anonymous
Navigation on this site is more confusing, but I guess it’s a done deal. We’ll have to get used to it.
Maybe sometime you’ll explain that picture and why it looks like you’re in the ocean at sunset with your regular clothes on.
nashvillewife@gmail.com
Thanks for the feedback. My goal with this site is to improve navigation. If you’re willing to describe what you mean, I’m happy to make some changes. π
Anonymous
You have to click to read more. You can’t scroll & scan the entire post without clicking, like before, or like your other blogs. So you go back and forth, back and forth…
Two big top stories followed by some smaller pictures crammed in, followed by some totally random “In case you missed it” stories. Visually confusing. I liked how the posts were one after the other, in tight date order, on your old blog. Maybe my eyes don’t move side to side as well as they used to and take in a whole page at once?
The print in this comment box is so faint and so small that I really don’t know how some of your older readers or readers with vision problems are going to be able to see it. Even after zooming in, it’s still faint gray text on a white background, almost impossible to see.
It’s also confusing that there’s a box for “Name,” but it doesn’t explain that you can post Anon without putting anything in there. I almost typed in Anonymous. Wasn’t sure it would accept leaving a box blank. Some sites don’t.
It’s your blog. You worked on it for ages. But you asked for feedback, so there’s some.
nashvillewife@gmail.com
I appreciate the feedback. I’ll see what I can do to make some improvements.
Ellie
Anonymous
I see you axe’d the Memorial Day post.
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Yep. The actual migration of my content took place several days ago, so any posts and comments that went up on the old site after that time weren’t able to be moved over to the new site.
Regina Shea
I love it Ellie! You did a wonderful job!
Anonymous
I got a “secure connection failed” notice while trying to come here. ?????
nashvillewife@gmail.com
Are you continuing to get that error? It looks like you were able to visit the website successfully, so it must have been a glitch. The site is secure.
Ellie
Candi
What did you do for Memorial Day Ellie? I guess I missed your new post π can you repost it?
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Hi Candi,
The post was a reminder to live with gratefulness for those who have given their lives in service to our country. π
Ellie
Anonymous
It looks different. I miss the old website but I shall not worry , in due time I’ll probably like this website even more. Thank you…Jane
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I hope you do, Jane! If you have any suggestions or feedback, I would love to hear it.
Ellie
Kell
Very nice! I just love to follow your blog!
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Thank you, Kell!
Ellie
Beth
Love your new website Ellie!
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Thanks, Beth!
Ellie
Jenny
Very nice new site!!
nashvillewife@gmail.com
Thanks so much, Jenny!
Ellie
JL
Very nice layout for your new site! I love the color scheme. I also like the navigation, divided by topics and then an index divided by month, at the bottom. I wasn’t able to as easily navigate on the older one. The header could be a little bigger. Your time and effort paid off. FYI: I’m on a mobile phone.
nashvillewife@gmail.com
Thanks for the feedback, JL. I’m thrilled to hear that you like the new layout!
Ellie
Regina Shea
I noticed my subscription automatically transferred to this new site which is very convenient. Ellie how are you liking the new site? I noticed it has a nice fresh look to it with fewer distracting ads.
nashvillewife@gmail.com
Thanks, Regina! I like the new layout. WordPress has a steeper learning curve, so there have been some frustrations as I have built the site, but I am thrilled to finally unveil it.
Ellie
Shela G
I like it βΊ Ellie you have done a really good job!! Looking forward to reading all your future post on here.
nashvillewife@gmail.com
Thank you, Shela. I’m grateful to have you as a reader.
Ellie
Anonymous
Nice website Ellie. I too like the categories and the ease with which topics and specific entries can be found. Nice to see an updated pic of you and Mr. H! Eileen
nashvillewife@gmail.com
Thanks for the feedback, Eileen! Glad you like it.
Ellie
Anonymous
Nice! Best wishes to you and your husband!
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Thank you!
Ellie
Anonymous
Your blog is usually fun, exciting, interesting and inspiring! We viewers go their anticipating a shot from you that is a feel good injection. With reason you’ve been shy of the average number of posts this month. Your new blog is yet another dose that you had us anticipating. Are we on you or life? I guess as you present it, it is the goodness of life. Thanks Ellie, God bless you and the Mr.
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Thank you for your kind words. The project has been time consuming, for sure. I look forward to writing posts more frequently, now that the bulk of the design work is out of the way.
Have a blessed day,
Ellie
Anonymous
Are you talking about the website or coffee, nothing stronger or more addicting! Be careful!
Anonymous
I LOVE IT ELLIE!!!
GREAT JOB!!!!!!!!!!
nashvillewife@gmail.com
Thank you!
Ellie
Anonymous
Did Mr. Handsome’s tie (?) survive that baptism?
Ellie
It did, surprisingly!
Ellie
Anonymous
I love it! It’s so beautiful, and I love the picture of you and Mr. Handsome! So cute!
Ellie
Thank you! Glad to hear you like it.
Ellie
Anonymous
I liked the old picture at the top better. This new one is weird.
Stacey
Like your new lay out good job.God bless you and your husband.
Ellie
Thank you. God bless you, as well, Stacey.
Ellie
Amanda
I donβt have time to really explore your new site right now, but I love the photo in your new header.
Hereβs a quick observation. The text of this comment Iβm typing is very light, and a bit hard to see. Is it possible to make the text a little darker, or to increase the contrast between the background and the text?
Ellie
Is that better, Amanda? I made the text a bit darker.
Ellie
Amanda
Itβs not the text you see when a comment has been published that I was talking about, but itβs how light the text is as I type a response that makes it hard to see. I like to proofread and edit anything Iβve written before I submit it, but with the text as light as it is, I canβt actually see any of the punctuation marks at all, and the letters are pretty challenging, too.
I hope iβve Explained myself a bit more clearly this time. Iβm sure creating a whole new website is an incredible amount of work, thank you for taking the time to address all the feedback youβre getting.
Ellie
Alrighty. Thanks for explaining, Amanda. I’m not sure that I can change that, but I’ll look into it. I would also recommend zooming in your web browser. I have mine zoomed in about 150% just because it causes less eye strain, with me being on the computer so often.
Ellie
Anonymous
Agree with all the above posters who say the comment words are too faint as you type them. Even if you zoom in, all you get is larger faint letters. What you type needs to be darker, if there’s a way. The comments show up as bold black when posted. It would be nice if they were bold black while being typed, too. One thing I have done in the meantime is highlight what I typed to proof it. That changes the words to white and the background black, which is a little better (but not much).
Ellie
Thanks for the feedback. I’ll look into it right away. Great idea to highlight it to make it easier to see, for the time being.
Ellie
Alayna Grewe
Looks good!
Moonsparkle (ZM)
Looks good. π
Anonymous
I love the new picture, looks like a magazine ad!
Ellie
Aww, that’s kind of you to say.
Ellie
Marilyn
Hi Ellie, Lovely new website.
Joan,Marion and Marilyn
Ellie
Thank you, ladies!
Ellie
Syl
You did a fantastic job
Donβt let anyone tell you different
Good luck in everything that you do !!!
Ellie
Thank you, Syl. I’m grateful to have you as a reader. π
Ellie
Anonymous
Good work, Ellie! I must say I liked not having to click each individual blog post on your old site, but this blog looks a lot more classy and professional. Thank you for taking the time to write the thoughtful and interesting blog posts you always do! -Grace
Ellie
Thank you, Grace. I appreciate that. I’m blessed to have you as a reader.
Ellie
Alicia Mae
The new site looks great Ellie!
Ellie
Thanks, Alicia!
Anonymous
WOW!! That picture from the header is beyond beautiful!! Was it a professionally done photo?
~Cat
Ellie
Thank you, Cat! How kind of you. Yes, it was taken by a photographer.
Ellie
Anonymous
Is there a way to stop getting your videos to automatically launch when you come to this site? That bothered me on the old site, too. Suddenly someone’s moving around over there or talking!
Ellie
I’ll look into that. π
Ellie
Anonymous
The new site is fine. What I liked about the other site was the statistics on how many views and from where abouts that you get. Also there was the voting on blog topics as to if they were inspiring etc. And there were little vote on something surveys too I think. This site is OK too, thank you for all you do to communicate in all your blog sites.
Ellie
Thanks for the feedback! I’ll definitely take it into consideration.
Ellie
Anonymous
I love the new picture. It makes you both look like soulmates and that you really love each other!
Ellie
Aww, thank you!
Justine Elizabeth Kessner
Now I know why U went to this new format, looks sharp, and is better laid out!!!
Ellie
Thanks, Justine!
Ananymous
I like the new layout. It looks very neat and clean. Please give a backstory for the photo in the header. It looks like a picture of you and Mr. Handsome was photoshopped onto a sunset photo.
Ellie
Glad to hear you like the new layout! The photo was taken in the ocean by a photographer.
Ellie
Anonymous
The categories are nice, but the need to open a post in order to read it is rather frustrating. I much preferred the other layout where you could read an entire post, as well as the previous on, as you scrolled down the page. And I agree about the tiny, faint font in the comment box as you type…It is not very ‘user-friendly’. That’s my ”two cents”. π
Ellie
I appreciate the feedback! I’m working on getting the text size in the comment box changed this week. π
Ellie
Davina
I think your new website is very successful in terms of viewing from a mobile. Look forward to hearing more about your cover photo in an upcoming blog post?:)
Ellie
Glad to hear it looks good on your mobile phone, Davina. (Beautiful name, by the way.) The cover photo was taken in the ocean by a photographer. We have lots of friends/family members who are photographers and usually take our photos (wedding, etc), but this time Mr. Handsome found someone online who does these water photos and decided to gift me a short session. It was a blast.
Ellie
Anonymous
I find it harder to navigate since I have to click here and there and come back to the home page instead of just scrolling down to see everything.