The Big Reveal: My Poetry Site Is All Grown Up!

GRAND RE-OPENING

I've been waiting as impatiently as can be to reveal my brand new and waaaay more lovely and professional web site. Many thanks to Shane Helm and his team at Sonze Design Studio for their great work on this project. I really could not be happier! Please, please, please VISIT and give me your feedback, not just about how it looks but about how easily it navigates. My main purpose in revamping the site was to make the individual poems more accessible. Now, each one has a page, and as soon as the googlebot has a chance to index them all, web surfers will be able to google right in to a specific poem. (Before, they could only google in to a category, like "Spiritual Poems," "Children's Poems, etc.")

Initially, I wasn't exactly sure what kind of look I wanted. Should it be sleek and sassy? Warm and fuzzy? Awash in color and creativity? Black, white, and basic...so the poems could speak for themselves?? Completely at sea, I finally wound up visiting a lot of design sites until I found several styles that appealed to me on various (different) levels. I sent the whole motley mess to Shane, wrote some circular gibberish about what I liked and didn't like, and left him to come up with the perfect representation of who I am. (A difficult task considering that Shane has no idea who I am...other than a highly confused and confusing woman...and I suspect, after working with me on this, he would like to keep it that way!) However, he managed to come up with several concepts, all of which were great but two of which were even better than great. I see-sawed back and forth between them for a couple of days, asked for a few modifications, ended up selecting the one that had appealed to me most all along, and voila! Shane gave me something even better than I had envisioned! 

(Thanks, Shane.) 

When you visit (you will visit, right???) (now would be good), be sure to take in all the little details...like check out the bottom of each page to see the "roots" of the tree, the top to see the teeny birds, the leaves that remind me of my favorite season, and my little trademark book and quill pen. I am loving it!!

Best of all is the ease of uploading new poems...And yes, this means I will be doing just that, on a far more regular basis. So make the trip often, all right? I guarantee you'll find something you like (even if it's just the layout).

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