Comments on: Switching to WordPress….

By: Jennifer, Snapshot

Jennifer, Snapshot — Sun, 04 Nov 2007 22:24:32 +0000

I’m glad you posted a picture. You look so young!! So young in a good way, not so young in a twelve-year-old way. . . .

By: shaz

shaz — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 13:04:18 +0000

Thank you for the kind words Laura! you were great to work with! :)

I actually did not notice the baskets matched, but I smiled when I read that. :)

By: Lazy Organizer

Lazy Organizer — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 05:54:17 +0000

It’s beautiful! I need all those features too so I may have to join you on WordPress.

By: Candace

Candace — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 02:07:52 +0000

Love your new look! Welcome to WordPress. This blog loads so much faster than the Blogger blog. I use WordPress and always compress my pics in Microsoft Photo Editor. That’s about all the advice I can give because I’m the least computer savvy blogger out there.

By: Proverbs31

Proverbs31 — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 01:51:16 +0000

OH. MY. GOSH. I love, love, LOVE your new blog and layout. It’s gorgeous!!

I have to say, though.. My heart skipped a beat – It really did!!- When I started to read “Good bye old friend…” I thought you were leaving us for good!!

I’m so glad you’re not. :)

By: Hollie

Hollie — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 01:36:28 +0000

I use photbucket and then load my pics from there..

Sometimes they will of been edited in Paint Shop Pro first if there is a need..

Otherwise I dont like how they load either.

By: Jeanne B.

Jeanne B. — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 22:51:18 +0000

The new look is really cute! I love the daisy motif and the little “extras”.

As for image compression: I use PhotoShop to crop, resize, and color correct any images I post to my blog. PhotoShop has a companion app called ImageReady which launches when I choose Save For Web. This takes the image size down to a manageable level (from Mb to Kb).

There are probably some less pricey options out there that will do the same thing, but this is what I do, then I upload to Flickr and paste the URL from Flickr into my blog.

By: Tsoniki

Tsoniki — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 19:21:58 +0000

I love the new look! For pictures I usually upload to Flickr, go to “all sizes” and then use a smaller picture.

By: Crista

Crista — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 17:24:14 +0000

Laura,
The new website is very nice; unfortunately for me, it still loads slowly. It always starts loading quickly, then there is a 30 to 45 second period where it won’t let me go up or down your page, or even switch to a different website, while it finishes loading. Kind of like it freezes my computer up. This is what your old site did. Didn’t know if you could do anything about that, but your site is so great, it is worth it to read your great ideas. And, if you could see my house right now, you’d see I’m in need of many more ideas from you. We have been schooling all morning, and my kids’ books are everywhere, while my 2 year old has her toys out everywhere. Would you consider homeschooling, so that you could give us homeschoolers some homeschooling organization ideas?? haha! Just my way of saying I love all your great posts! Thanks again!
Crista

By: Gwen

Gwen — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 16:58:12 +0000

I have a WordPress blog and I use Picassa to resize my pictures to 800 pixels. It is good to because you can also export the pictures to a folder on your hard drive and resize them at the same time. It is easier to find all the pics you want for a post when they are in the same place. :)