The Chick Makes Some Changes

Building  A Better Blog

You may have noticed a few changes to the Just Chick Flicks design.  Twelve months ago when I started writing about my favorite movies, I knew less than nothing about website design or blogging.  But I did a Google search on “blogging tips” and came up with Problogger.  Over the last few months I have learned so much about blogging from Problogger’s Darren Rowse that am sure many of you newer readers are here because of some of the things I’ve learned on his site.

Last month, I took part in his 31 Days to Build A Better Blog project. Each day he assigned a different  task designed to help improve various aspects of my blog.  You tell me, but I think the site has improved. Of course that’s just my opinion and everyone thinks their baby is cute. A few other good things came out of that project.

[1] I met many other bloggers, who are very creative and helpful.  Such as  Andi, Action Flick Chick and Eliza Leigh, The Opinionated Ant.

[2]  learned that other people (not only my  personal friends) are reading Just Chick Flicks.

[3] That there are a lot of people (both men and women) who share my  unique view of movies.

I actually purchased the 31 Days to Build A Better Blog Book, because I felt it had more lessons than  I could learn in just 31 days. Besides it is less than $20  (or 4 visits to Starbuck’s) .  If you have a blog, I highly recommend it. Go to Problogger.net for more information.  [Click here to view more details]

A Great Designer

The other thing I did was to change my blog design to a WordPress premium theme called Thesis by the genius designer Chris Pearson. I had used several free themes, including my previous theme Neoclassical, which was also designed by Pearson. It was hard  for me to spend  cash money on something that I felt I could get for free. But let me tell you how much easier this theme is to use. I am planning some really cool design changes in the next few weeks.  I am not a website designer, I don’t know anything about HTML, CSS, PHP or WXYZ.  But the Thesis Theme  has  a really great support community for people like me.

Thesis Demo Site — See the Thesis Theme in action!

Now comes the hard part. The actual redesign of my site. There will be a new headers, logo and lots of COLOR!  What does all this have to do with movies and  chick flicks? Not much really. But this blog tells you something about  me too, my love of movies, handsome leading men, Kung Fu, Star Trek and so much more. And I want it to love GOOD!

So stay tuned,  I am planning to make Just Chick Flicks better for all of us. I hope you continue to visit my site and keep on watching Chick Flicks!

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