Hello, friends, and welcome back to Planet Pailly! I’ve spent the last two or three weeks redesigning this website, and I’m pretty pleased with the results. Today, I’d like to give you a brief tour of what’s changed.
Firstly, I’d like to draw your attention to the menu bar at the top of the page. If you click on “About J.S. Pailly,” you’ll be taken to an article called “Three Things You Might Want to Know About J.S. Pailly.” In the future, that article may be expanded to cover four things, or five things, or maybe even six things! But three things seems like enough for now.
You’ll also notice that I’ve added a contact form, which you can also access from the menu bar at the top. It was recently brought to my attention that I didn’t have any sort of contact form for people who needed to get in touch with me directly. Now I do.
Over on the right hand side of the screen, you’ll see some new posters promoting my professional writing and illustration work. Clicking on the Tomorrow News Network poster will currently take you straight to Amazon, where you can buy the first book of the Tomorrow News Network series. That will eventually change. The plan is for the T.N.N. poster to take you to the T.N.N. website, but I need to finish redesigning that website first.
Next, you’ll see a poster advertising the Planet Pailly store on RedBubble. Clicking on that will take you to my store, where you can look at some of my art and buy prints, T-shirts, notebooks, etc. I’ll be adding more art to my RedBubble store soon.
Oh, and the “Buy Me a Coffee” link is also there, for anybody who’s feeling a little generous.
I think that pretty much sums up the changes to this blog. I hope you like it. And now regular blogging shall resume. I’ll have an Insecure Writer’s Support Group post on Wednesday, and then on Friday we’ll get back to talking about science and outer space. See you soon, friends!
P.S.: For anybody who might be curious, my new WordPress theme is called “Penscratch 2.”
The new format looks good. Was it hard to migrate the old to the new?
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No, it was pretty easy. The new theme doesn’t have as many bells and whistles as my old theme, but most of those bells and whistles weren’t working anymore anyway.
I did have to do some experimenting to get the sidebar right. The RedBubble store ended up being my biggest headache. RedBubble offers a tool to help artists promote their stores, but for whatever reason I couldn’t get that tool to work. So I just made a little poster instead.
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The site looks great! Glad you had an easy transition.
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Thanks! Yeah, this went a lot more smoothly than the last time.
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The site looks great! It’s easy to see everything on the blog as well, you’ve done a good job!
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Thanks, friend!
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Very cool!
My about me page is my full bio that goes in the back of my books with most of my links and stuff. Always handy.
I recently changed my email, so I need to set up a contact form on my site since I am not posting the new email. (Long story.)
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Understandable. Using a contact form does seem like a safer option.
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