Things are a-changin’ once again around here.
A couple of months ago, Google announced that it would be penalizing websites that weren’t optimized for mobile devices. While I loved my old site and hated to make a change, I also couldn’t afford to lose Google rankings, so I went with a design that had many phone and tablet-specific features and was very touch-friendly.
Unfortunately, many of the site’s elements were designed for the newest phone and device models on the market (something that, to my dismay, I wasn’t informed of when I selected the design template I based the redesign around) and I heard from many of you who were struggling with navigation.
To make things easier for everyone, I’ve redesigned (again!) to a much simpler layout until I can troubleshoot what navigation elements were causing issues with older devices. This has been a much longer process than I ever planned it to be, but I hope that you can bear with me through some changes once again. I want to get back to a point where I can blog more frequently and regularly versus working on the back end of the site day after day.
If you haven’t visited since the older site was retired (in April 2015) you will need to reset your password before you can log in.
Restoring functionality to the Recent Posts features and the daily email digest are the next priority, and I’ve hired another programmer to help get things back online as soon as we can.
funni5 says
This format seems to work much better for me. Thanks for working on a solution.
sjw1314 says
Just wanted to let you know your home page has things like this on it: ht_post_of_day el_class=”color1″ title=”Featured Post”]
Coupon Maven says
sjw1314, I believe you may have bookmarked an old homepage link or had it cached in the browser – I am not seeing that on the homepage of http://www.jillcataldo.com at all, and that was code from the old site. I appreciate you letting me know.
eztupp says
Much Better!!!
Csween530 says
So much better! Thanks Jill for putting so much blood, sweat and tears in this!
Outlander says
Wow, I agree! This is so much better! I have been on your site only about 3-4 times since the change, compared to a few times a day!! I hated that look, so busy and messy looking. And I couldn’t stay on for more than a minute, it was so glitchy!
This simple look is much, much better!!!
Sorry you have all this trouble! :(