A New Look For My Website!

I’ve been blogging for almost five years and have never given myself a makeover – until now!

I’ve made three changes:

  • A brand new ‘theme’ (i.e. the overall ‘look’)
  • The initial website ‘landing page’ is now the ‘About Me’ page, so that anyone searching for me on the internet (unlikely, but you never know – it might happen!) will immediately see ME rather than a spurious blog post about a writing competition or someone else’s book
  • A new domain name. An acquaintance told me that they never visit websites with ‘wordpress’ in the URL because it flags up ‘amateurism’. I don’t want to give an amateur impression so I’ve paid for the domain www.sally-jenkins.com (hyphenated because sallyjenkins.com wasn’t available).

So, I hope you like the new professional look!

In other news:

If you are planning on entering either the Flash 500 competition or the Writers’ Bureau Short Story competition then you might like to take a look at this blog post by Iain Pattison. He is judging both these competitions and talks about his likes and dislikes in short story competition entries.

Kobo are offering e-books for half-price until Monday August 31st. If you have a Kobo e-reader or fancy downloading the Kobo App, simply key in the code SALE50 (can be used as many times as you like over the weekend) when you download a book. This is a chance to buy Old Friends – 13 Coffee Break Stories for 75p – less than half the Amazon price!


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15 responses to “A New Look For My Website!”

  1. susanjanejones avatar

    Thanks for the links, Sally and will look at your website when I get to my computer – on my mobile at the moment.

  2. Susan Jones avatar

    Hi, Sally, it looks great, and thanks for keeping my link on your blog, I must add yours on my website as well if you like. It does look more professional, but I liked it before as well. Thanks for the links.

    1. Sally Jenkins avatar

      Glad you approve, Susan! And yes please, I’d love you to include my link on your site.

  3. blogaboutwriting avatar

    Sally – I’m impressed! It all looks very professional. Well done, you. Would appreciate some tips on sorting out a domain name.. but perhaps that’s something you’ll be saving for an article!?!

    1. Sally Jenkins avatar

      Thanks, Helen. The domain name was easy, I’m simply ‘renting’ it on an annual basis from wordpress. So the site is still hosted by wordpress but just has a different URL. It may not be the cheapest/best way but to me it seemed the simplest. All the info is here https://en.support.wordpress.com/domains/. I did option 1 – Register a new domain and paid the extra to keep my personal details private. Good Luck!

  4. nickdaws avatar
    nickdaws

    Congratulations on the new look blog, Sally. It looks great, including on my smartphone!

    1. Sally Jenkins avatar

      Thanks, Nick. Haven’t looked at it on my phone yet so good to know that it works!

  5. Dorinda Cass avatar
    Dorinda Cass

    Love your new website, Sally. Very ‘clean’ and easy to navigate. Has lots of useful info. I look forward to your weekly blog as you always have something interesting to say, and good links.
    Also, I tried to use the comments space on the website but it wouldn’t let me enter anything. May be a glitch or me being incompetent!

    1. Sally Jenkins avatar

      Thanks, Dorinda. I think I turned off the comments on the ‘about me’ page, so that may be the problem there – not you being incompetent!

  6. Wendy Clarke avatar

    Very smart! I think a revamp every now and again is a good idea. I’ve just bought my domain name too but have yet to do anything with it.

    1. Sally Jenkins avatar

      Thanks, Wendy. I look forward to seeing what you do with yours!

  7. stuart127 avatar
    stuart127

    Nice new look Sally. Easy to navigate. I like it. Well done.

  8. juliathorley avatar
    juliathorley

    It’s already been said, but I think your new look makes you look very professional – which of course you are.

    1. Sally Jenkins avatar

      You say the nicest things, Julia!

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