Housekeeping: New Blog Address

{ Source: The Neo Traditionalist }

Apologies for the radio silence, between a terrible cold that resulted in the loss of my social life whilst at its peak and some housekeeping I've been doing on the blog I haven't had enough time to put together some posts.

In case anyone's RSS feed went a little nuts with every single post on this blog, please please forgive me. I decided a little while ago that I wanted the address for my blog to reflect the name. To that end, I've changed the URL for the blog to GirlmeetsWolf.co.uk so that everyone who's using the Google Friends Connect widget* doesn't have to re-friend me on the new blog address. In order not to lose everyone following through other means I've recreated the blog with the old Welsh-Pixie address so that all old links will remain working. In the future, should I ever actually start making vintage reproduction children's clothes the Welsh-Pixie address will be available to me should I want it. However, it will no longer be updated with posts being published on Girl meets Wolf so please update your RSS feeds and bookmarks if you'd still like to receive my sporadic ramblings about anything that appears to enter my head.

I've streamlined the look of the blog, some things - whilst pretty - just weren't working for me and were more irritating than helpful, so they have gone! I'm not going to be messing around with the template (hopefully) for a very long time! I am, however, going to go back and re-write my CSS tutorials after some conversations with Charly, so for the moment those are not available but will be popping back up.

And as I finished with the BBC (for the second time in a fortnight) on Thursday I have more time for sewing! I'm looking forward to finishing (well, in some cases starting and finishing) the projects on my to-do list and sharing them with you.

* Google announced recently it was planning on shelving Friend Connect, but I think (hopefully!) that didn't apply to the Blogger widget version.

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New Blog Design { Again }

Yes, those eagled eyed among you will have noticed I've changed the layout of my blog. Again. I'm obsessed, I know.

There have been a lot of things I've been unhappy with recently, my job and my blog layout were the top of the list so I've changed both. I'm back at the BBC from Monday and voila! a new layout. There's still some bugs to iron out which I'll be quietly working on but if you find something displaying wrong or weirdly please let me know in the comments or via the contact page above.

Whilst talking to LandGirl1980 on twitter about templates and new layouts I showed her the before and after. This template was originally the Zinmag Tribune template I found over at btemplates.com.

I loved the layout (mostly) but didn't want those colours, prefering the colours I'd decided on for the previous layout. I'd also seen a template called Grid Focus who's menu bar I really liked. So I added that part to this, changed all the colours, spent about two weeks swearing and finally created this. I don't know about you but I love it! LandGirl seemed to love it too and appeared to be a bit crestfallen because she didn't know how to tailor templates. So I've promised her (and you) tutorials because literally all I've done is change colours, add/ remove sections and create incredibly basic graphics. Easy peasy! So long as you've got the patience to go through each line of code and, if necessary, make a change, check it, undo the change and repeat. I'm not going to lie, it's time consuming and frustrating at times but when you get the finished product you'd been seeing in your head it's totally worth it.

There are, however, some things I can't get to work. My lovely post headers have lost my special font and disqus doesn't present properly and so I've returned to bloggers comments. This has meant I've lost everyone's comments since disqus was switched on until now. Boo!

You'll probably notice other changes. The name of the blog is now Girl meets Wolf. This was done to reflect my life as it currently stands. Welsh Pixie was something I came up with when I wanted to make childrens clothes, I still want to try my hand at that but until I do Welsh Pixie isn't something that reflects who I am at the moment. Plus, the wolf is constantly photo bombing me so it seemed only fair!

Moving forward I want to focus on my quest for a style, my sewing (when I'm being productive), my job where it's relevant and my progress with the house. I'm also planning on selling off my wardrobe to fund buying clothes I actually like/ fit and will be posting anything here that I feel might be of interest first.

Oh yes, I'm baaaaaaaack with a vengeance!

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