Things Are Looking A Little Different Around Here ~ New Look Blog and Mobile Version Launched Today…

Things are looking a little different around here this morning.  And there's a very good reason for that.

You see, we – that's my right hand lady Franky and I, really listen to our readers and we take feedback regarding Love My Dress very seriously indeed. Which is why, when a few of you started to advise us about slow-load times following the last, let's face it, rather graphic heavy blog re-design, I knew I had to do something.

Earlier in the year, I launched a new look Love My Dress. And I loved it, very much.  I even blogged about how marvellous my re-branding was.  But something wasn't right.  And the 'not right' niggled away night after night.

In working on the previous redesign, I worked with a new illustrator, and hand on heart, she was an absolute joy to work with {Joy actually being her surname, can you believe that!?}.  But it was a big step away from the aesthetic I had come to love in my little blog illustrations – and the look that had come to truly define Love My Dress.  So, to cut a long story short, when I realised that slow-load times were becoming a big issue and that I'd have to work on a new look for these pages, I called up my wondrous original illustrator Charlotte Thomson-Morley {who up until April this year, had been with me from the very start} and we did one of those 'I've missed you!' , 'no, I've missed you more!!' virtual hug things, and there were fireworks in sky and everything…

Lady Love My Dress, with her trusty Mac.  And kitsch porcelain swan...

I cannot tell you how happy I am with this  new look; it's cleaner, much less fussy and lighter in file size, meaning much quicker page load.  It looks better on an iPad and if you view Love My Dress via your iPhone or Android device, you'll have way waaaaay quicker page loads than before now with our new mobile pages.

Archived links have been moved to the right hand column and split into six different drop down menus to help make finding content easier for you – though you can rely on the Google search tool if you can't immediately find what you're looking for.

Important basic links are included at the very top of the banner;  'Home', 'About', 'Advertise' and 'Submissions', for example.  You'll also note a new 'Events' page has been added, which features a Google Diary of events that will be updated on a weekly basis.  Key content links/major cateogories are listed along the bottom of the banner.  They include a brand new category link 'Life & Love' for all those personal/emotional/inspirational type posts you love to engage with.  Social media icons are located towards the lower left area of the banner.  And from now on, the home page will load the last three blog posts published, to save you having to load features you've more than likely already seen.  We're thinking smarter.

So, this is just to say, I'm sorry. I made a mistake with the last blog redesign and I really do apologise for any frustrating page load issues you have been experiencing.

But you know what?  You learn from your mistakes and I firmly believe it's about what you do to put them right.  I really hope that each and every one of you find visiting Love My Dress an even easier and more enjoyable experience from now now on.

I'd love to hear back from you with any feedback on the new design ;)  {I insisted on the cute Peter Pan collar and brogues by the way – and the kitsch porcelain swan, that wasn't going anywhere}.

Lady Love My Dress is back.  And she's here to stay 😉

Big love all,

Annabel

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Founder of Love My Dress. Passionate Podcaster and Editor. Annabel lives in rural North Yorkshire with her husband and business partner Philip, their two daughters and menagerie of furry hounds. She loves photography, meditation, walking, being outdoors and star gazing. She is fierce when it comes to championing talent within the wedding industry and when she's not working on Love My Dress, she supports her husband Philip in the running of the family's sustainable flower farm and floral design business, Moonwind Flowers. In 2013, she became a published author.

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