For those of you who weren’t on Twitter yesterday and noticed that my blog brought up an error screen, we had an incident with our host and it seems that the site was hacked and reported for phishing. And it has happened before. So! We made a switch to a new host, and after about a day of uncertainty and having my blog completely unavailable intermittently, things have been resolved! I may have lost some comments if you made them yesterday, so please repost if you can. And of course I have to thank Keith for fixing everything and engineering and paying for the move. I’m a lucky girl. =)
So, here we are with the same URL and the same RSS feed, but I’ve taken this opportunity to make some changes around here. First of all, I have a shiny new install of wordpress, which you can’t see but trust me, the whole admin part of my site is completely different and I have a lot to play around with. I didn’t realize how old my last wordpress install was. I also took this opportunity to change my theme and upload some of my own images. A few things might be changing over the next few days. I have to add some blog awards and links to the sidebar mainly, but this is what I have time for now. If you’re linking to me and I’m not linking to you, please let me know. I’ll be trying to add my favorite google reader blogs, but I missed so many before and want to avoid that happening again.
While you’re here, refresh a few times. The header changes! How cool is that? I’m thrilled that I can use my own pictures for my header now.
In the midst of my frustration yesterday, I endeavored to avoid the computer and finished two books. The first was Drood by Dan Simmons, which will be touring here and elsewhere in the book blog world on February 27th. I don’t want to give too much away, but it’s historical fiction featuring Wilkie Collins and Charles Dickens. Not much can go wrong there! Then I was annoyed with my inability to write the reviews I had planned on, so I read Romancing Mister Bridgerton by Julia Quinn. Not as fantastic as the first three Bridgertons, but a good distraction. I haven’t had time to start American Rust yet, but that will be for a bit later today, after I get some work out of the way. I need to come up with some dissertation and essay ideas, which is a bit too much for my little exasperated brain, but I will give it my best shot.
I know I’ve already said this on Twitter, but I do love the new look! And funnily enough, that version of The Agony and the Ecstasy is also in the middle of my header picture! (Though I don’t think you can tell)
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I’m doing the Drood blog tour, too. I loved the book, but found the review hard to write because there’s so much detail in the book.
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It is always wonderful when bad things help bring about good changes.
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I wondered about why I was having problems accessing your site. I am glad everything seems to be up and running again on the new server. I love the new look! I so want to read The Drood and am kicking myself for not getting involved with the tour. I just didn’t know about it in time.
It’s probably for the best though. It isn’t like I don’t have enough reading to do right now.
I hope you have a great week!
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Ooh, I love the new look! I’m glad you were able to resolve everything.
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I love the new look! The rotating headers are really neat.
I’m also doing the Drood tour. I’m loving the book so far.
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What a pain! But I love the new look and the changing header is SUPER cool!
There is such a huge buzz going on about Drood right now – makes me think I might want to read it even if it does originate from Dickens, who is really not one of my favorites.
Glad you got everything up and running again. It’s really nice to have someone around who can take care of all the computer stuff – I’d be out of luck if it weren’t for the hubby.
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The new layout, etc. is very shiny, I like it! I reeeally need to update as well. Maybe my husband can do it on his spring break, I’m sure I’d break something.
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Love the new look!
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The changes look great!
What version of WordPress are you using? I know there’s a newer version than what I’m on, but I’m dragging my feet about upgrading, fearing that something will go wrong.
CommentLuv is on my things to add when I do upgrade, though. I like that plug-in!
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Thanks guys! I’m really pleased with the way it looks so far. Everything is more intuitive and it’s nice to feel I have an attractive blog. Still waiting for Keith to get me some of the code from my old sidebars back though so I can have the awards and such on here.
Dawn – I’m on 2.7 and uploading all of my entries and comments was really, really easy. I’m not sure how old yours is, but I was on 2.1 or something and now the dashboard is completely different and all of a sudden there are thousands of plug-ins and themes! It was overwhelming but in a good way.
I really, really like your new layout!
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