When I started the blog I was hoping my husband and two of my friends, Cintamani and Xiaolu, will be pleased and visit. The amount of traffic has taken me by surprise. I’m wondering if I’m getting someone else’s statistics by accident. From the perspective of the hermitage and quiet solitude I live "in the real world", it seems unlikely to reach as far and wide.
When things get complex, I have a need to simplify. A more spacious design of the blog will be there to facilitate you. It’s time to move into a loftier corner. For the next couple of days the site will be under construction. My apologies. Keep your fingers crossed I won’t mess up everything. HTML and a coding-challenged lady don’t match well together.
There will be cake for everyone when the facelift is over!
Ps. Does any of you have an idea why Internet Explorer doesn't recognize line-breaks? It's driving me crazy. Is there anything I can do to fix the problem? I'm using Firefox and everything looks as it should. I wonder what other tricks IE plays!
I can't wait to see the new look of your blog!
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Rosa
I love your logo allready. Really interested in the new design
ReplyDeleteYou are the best! Really! xx
ReplyDeleteOh forgot....lots of ♥! :-)
ReplyDeleteI already like the new look.... can't wait for the final outcome....:)
ReplyDeleteBest, Ann.
Look forward to the new look. Loved the old version and I'm sure I'll love the new oen even more!
ReplyDeleteSorry I'm not much help with the IE line break issue but I can tell you that the amount of traffic you've gotten is no surprise to any of us who've gotten to know and love you and your photos on Flickr. Much love and can't wait to see the updated design!
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I'm rooting for you! Keep working on the coding, everything will pay off.
ReplyDeleteI have the exact same problem with IE. Everything looks fine in Chrome and Firefox, but it looks horrible in IE. I hope somebody will be able to help. I look forward to the new page!
ReplyDeleteThanks for your support! I'm on the verge on losing my mind with the troubles that accompanied the change of template. It will take longer than I thought to get things running properly.
ReplyDeleteErin, many people on Blogger have the same problem. In my case it is related to the changes I'm making. Previously IE worked somewhat reliably. Something got corrupted two days ago. I figured a temporary solution by manually inserting paragraph HTML on both ends of each and every paragraph. However, I'm not going to do it for the rest of my life or for the rest of the posts! It takes ages and any update will delete it anyway. I guess those who are still using IE will just have to suffer through the strange alignments,gaps, white noise, line-breaks and who knows what. Who is using IE anymore anyway? Apparently quite many people!
I just checked my stats and it says that 11% of my readers are using IE, so I guess you're right about quite a few people still using it. Thanks for the hint! And your page looks amazing. :)
ReplyDeleteHow can you not have traffic? A "golden flower" cannot be hidden. :D Really Lakshmi your work is so splendid and I cannot wait for the new look. Already love the logo. Have you designed that?
ReplyDelete'There will be no smoke without fire'...applies to this lovely space as well :) There is substance and pure magic in each and every recipe you create and post, Lakshmi...hence the Traffic!!
ReplyDeleteLoved ur old template and loving the new logo all the more! beautiful golden lotus looks so pure and serene!
ReplyDeleteenjoyed visiting ur beautiful Blog...Waiting for ur next post
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I'm SO in love with the design and logo already. Lakshmi you always blow my mind!
ReplyDeleteThank you for the kind support regarding the design. I hope those of you who expected something more sophisticated won't be disappointed that the blog is so simple and uncomplicated now. I felt claustrophobic with the previous layout and got rid of everything that was not necessary. This is how I live my life in general: with bare necessities. It is much simpler.
ReplyDeleteWhile resizing the images I realized that I had already deleted some of the originals on my hard disk --- call that efficient cleaning!!! --- and had to omit or replace some pictures with other ones. I didn’t spend much time in processing the old images and there maybe something wrong with the white balance and other settings… sorry about that.