Archives for September 2011

If you had read Flute It Up before about two or three days ago, you’ve notice a slight change in our layout.  That’s right, instead of using a traditional blogger pre-made template – we’ve turned completely and totally SMEXY!!  For YEAH!

About a month or two ago, I joined a giveaway at Simply Stacie and http://kellysluckyyou.com/  Ok – I actually joined about 25.  They were having this super duper blog giveaway where they gave away a bunch of amazing blog facelifts.  I was SO excited when I learned that I had actually WON!  WAHOO!!  A free blog prettification from The World As I See It owned by the fabulous Margaret.

Margaret and I sent e-mails back and forth for weeks.  She is absolutely amazing, if you can’t tell from my beautiful blog!  She grasped onto the style I wanted immediately and made everything work perfectly!  I now have an awesome banner, a button (which you may grab at any time), coolio headers on my 2 sidebars, and pretty little Twitter, Facebook, and E-mail icons!

Margaret was fabulous to work with.  In just a few words from me (being basically blog-beautifying-illiterate) she was able to make this amazing design.  I don’t know how she did it, and if she told me, I probably still wouldn’t understand.  Everything is EXACTLY how I imagined it.  I had always dreams of having a pretty blog and my own button and stuff, but I just figured I would have to wait until my blog was a little more well known.

I’m sure with my amazing new layout – people won’t be able to draw their eyes away from my amazing blog, and it will become more popular even faster!  Go check out Margaret at The World As I See It – tell her how AMAZING my blog looks, and check into her packages to get your blog amazing as well!!

**The opinions stated in this post are solely my own.  I received not monetary compensation for this post – though I did win this super amazing blog template**

Review:

Did you notice the new design? We had a pretty major site change and it’s all thanks to Margaret at The World As I See It.  Last Friday I joined her blog hop and she mentioned she does design work. And voila!

As someone who is incredibly stupid when it comes to graphics, logos, etc (my best effort was the old logo) I was grateful for someone who was willing to work with me on making the blog look better. Margaret did that and so much more! She took my logo and made it 100x better (You can actually read the words now!). From that and the basic colors I gave her, she made the background and side bars (did you see that Twitter/Facebook don’t overtake the side now? That’s thanks to Margaret!). She also made the signature you’ll now see at the bottom of every post and the blog button on the left.

Margaret also worked quite quickly. I literally asked her on a post Friday afternoon and had a whole new design by Saturday morning! She worked with what I had and did the extra needed to redo my logo (she had to go find the original piece of ClipArt I used and fix it from there). Margaret really listened to what I want and made it happen. If you are looking for someone to do a blog design for you, please contact Margaret at The World As I See It. She is fantastic, helpful and quick!