Changes

Posted on July 12, 2008 10 Comments

Phew! I’ve been making changes to the site all day to make it easier to navigate. I’ve been wanting to make these changes for like two years but no one would help me (cough, cough, design school brothers) so I took it on myself. I even took the new header pic of myself! I’m pretty pleased it turned out so well. I wish the menu bar were a little snazzier, but for now, this is the extent of my design skills. I would love your feedback!

As you can see, I’m trying to free up a little room on the site. I’ve been getting a lot of inquiries from potential advertisers and as soon as I can figure out how to set up a contract and payment method, I’m going to open it up. Of course, the ads WILL NOT interfere with the site content or usability. I will be very choiceful about what I put up. That said, after four years of hard work, I’m excited to finally start making some cash to go towards my downpayment!

Monday is the big Carnival of Personal Finance HERE so tune in and help make it a success. If you’re going to submit articles, please get ‘em in by 10 p.m. on Sunday.

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10 Responses to “Changes”

  1. Twiggers
    July 13th, 2008 @ 2:41 am

    I like the new header :-)

  2. Today's Budget
    July 13th, 2008 @ 1:17 pm

    Looks great! Yay!!

  3. Anonymous
    July 14th, 2008 @ 1:53 am

    I like that you now have a navigation structure/bar at the top of the page, but would you mind making the text for each topic a bit larger? The pink font is kind of hard to read against the black and white photo.

    Congratulations on your recent promotion and the evolution of both your finances and the site. I’ve been following your blog for years now and I look forward to your updates on your net worth/goals. I’m just about half a year younger than you are and I compare myself/my goals/my financial accomplishments to you and yours. It’s always very inspiring to learn of your gains and use that as a gauge for where I should be.

    Thanks again for your great blog and congrats on your successes! L

  4. Nicole
    July 14th, 2008 @ 4:14 am

    Good thought! I originally had white but it was also hard to read. I’ll see what I can do about the size.

  5. Nicole
    July 15th, 2008 @ 4:29 am

    OK, apparently it looks PERFECT in Firefox, but terrible in IE. I e-mailed a couple help groups to ask for help. Bear with me!

  6. Anonymous
    July 15th, 2008 @ 4:31 am

    Love what you did with the navigation bar. Excellent solution to give it its own background to help distinguish it more from the photo. Looks great! L

  7. Anonymous
    July 15th, 2008 @ 4:33 am

    I use FireFox, and yes, it looks great! Good luck getting it to work in IE. L

  8. Sallie's Niece
    July 15th, 2008 @ 8:19 pm

    Hi, I love your blog mostly because of the content – you’re a real inspiration but one suggestion I would make would be to add progress bars so we can see just how big that down payment fund is growing (that is if you are comfortable sharing). Otherwise keep up the good work!

  9. karen
    July 16th, 2008 @ 5:25 am

    pretty!!!! is that your eyeball? you’re so photoshop savvy.

  10. Nicole
    July 17th, 2008 @ 8:00 pm

    OK, it’s now looking good in IE6 and all versions of Firefox! IE7 is a total mystery to me :)

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