New Website Design! What do you think?
So last summer, around July 4th, I built a new website with the help of Aries Labs.
It was fun to put little organic touches in it, like pretending it was a wooden desk, adding a cup of ice tea, which I was pretty addicted to last summer, adding a pen, adding my book, and my picture too.
It felt like my own desk!
But times change.
For one thing, I stopped drinking iced tea! My family is full of dentists, and they said that the acid in the tea is really bad for your enamel. So I started drinking a lot of water instead. Purity became more important.
Since last summer I’ve started to do more research around social media, and write a lot more. Now I’m about to come out with my second book, The Wild Woman’s Guide to Social Media. This week, I’m giving a workshop for the City of Austin called “Advanced Social Media Tactics for Jedis.” I’m so excited to do this!
In the course of researching my book about social media, I found out about Google Heat Maps, and I thought, “I’d REALLY like to design my website around this idea too.”
And I’ve started to do a lot more webinars too, so check them out here.
And I wanted to start giving people a mini-e-course as a way to say thank you for signing up for my enewsletter. Now, finally, after much procrastination, if you look in the top left of the page, you’ll see that I’ve done it!
So in short, my concepts of what I want to do with this website needed to reflect my new knowledge and growing sophistication around social media.
It was time to say goodbye to the old, organic design, and go with something slicker, and more professional. Thanks to Aries Labs, it got done! It’s not totally complete yet but it’s getting there.
What do you think of the new look?
Have you ever built a new website?
Do you have before and after pictures that you’d like to share? Horror stories? Tell us!
October 4th, 2011 at 10:54 am
I do love the website revision! Way to go, Mazarine. I also completely changed my website, and it is hard work – but worth it! Keep up your awesomeness….
October 4th, 2011 at 12:01 pm
I like it. Good job. Your content is good and I think this website shows it off better.
October 7th, 2011 at 10:44 am
i like the old website better. it showed more of your uniqueness, which i think is one of your greatest assets – you have an artful approach to fundraising. every time i would enter the site i felt like we were sitting down for coffee together with the wood grain and the cup of tea. this site looks more like all the other sites out there. since you asked…..
October 9th, 2011 at 4:56 pm
Thanks for letting me know. Maybe there’s a way to insert my personality more into this… I appreciate your opinion!
October 9th, 2011 at 4:56 pm
@TrishB thank you Trish!
October 9th, 2011 at 4:57 pm
@Jessica_Journey Can’t wait to check it out!