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Thursday 13 May 2010

A New Era


Yes Darlings. BrocanteHome is moving house again.

This will be my last post here on Blogger as I have, with heart in mouth experienced the steep learning curve that is hosting my own site at Wordpress.Org, and after a month of the hardest work I can remember since I had to pull my guts out to pass my maths GCSE, the site is almost ready to receive visitors...

I say almost, because I fully intended to invite you over on Monday morning, but today Rachel Johnson, sister of Boris and editor of The Lady tweeted about a post I have written over at the new site about her magazine and before I knew it, just like that, my little old secret was out and I noticed a whole lot of unexplained visitors hopping all over the pages of the all new Brocante...

And so here we are, a few days earlier than I had anticipated with, many of the i's not quite dotted as scrumpiously as I had hoped and an entire section still not yet live (wait and see!), but heavens if I carry on faffing with my fiddly need for perfection I'll still be faffing when they put me ten feet under...

So here is what is going to happen: BrocanteHome here on Blogger will be live until Monday, then fingers crossed it will start to re-direct all traffic all by itself and you will be dragged by your pretty little knitted slippers over to the new site: the only thing you need to do is change bookmark and blog links to the new address if you would, while all feeds will be automatically re-directed and there shouldn't be any need to re-subscribe if you view Brocante in a reader...

I have decided upon this change for a number of reasons: a while ago I asked you what you thought of the current design and many of you suggested that you had preferred Brocante in it's previous happier, dotty incarnation (Hint!). While many readers also suggested that Brocante was both difficult to read and worse than that, almost impossible to navigate and even my own Mum declared problems searching for old posts and reading the text without glasses and a 200 watt light. So I listened and I dwelled and I ruminated on the idea of tackling something quite new to me (and previously rather terrifying) and before I knew it I was sitting with one of the Playground Daddies being taught the in's and out's of Wordpress, and keeping myself up till silly o'clock at night investigating the joys and endless possibilities of the rather wonderful little delight that is the Wordpress Plug-In.

A couple of months later and though I am almost bald with worry about such a big change, most of the Blogger posts have been imported and organized and we are ready to roll...

Wanna go see? 

View the front of the site here at http://www.brocantehome.net

and hop straight to the blog by clicking http://www.brocantehome.net/blog/

And please, please, please don't forget to leave your thoughts in the comments or contact box.
I've always been a girl open to suggestion!

See you at BrocanteHome.Net very, very soon.x

4 comments:

The Good Little Housewife said...

I kept quiet, but found the new site about a week ago when I googled puttery treats. (You see, I am an addict and you were gone way to long for my liking. lol) March's treats popped up. When I clicked I saw the new blog. I checked it over pretty thoroughly and found most everything. One thing that puzzled me was the home page was in latin. I told my husband that I thought I discovered what you were up to. The I saw the blog about The Lady and then the carousel. I love the new look and it it so much more user friendly. Congrats and good job. I know it had to be a lot of hard work.

~Stacy~

The Good Little Housewife said...

Oh, will the toolbar still work with the new site or will we have to download another?

~Stacy~

malin said...

I just thought that I missed the old colourful look, and here you go and make it happen again! Thank you!

Lesley said...

Lovely blog, Alison. Just been over for a look and it's just gorgeous! I'm in the process of starting life over again so your tips and blog are going to be such an inspiration. Thank you.

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