If you visit here often you will notice visual changes to this blog. I have changed the name of this blog from Monte Stevens Photography Blog to Monte Stevens Blog. I am still using the same free theme, Savona Edge by Optima Themes, but made a few tweaks to it. I have gone back to the theme’s original fonts. That way, I get rid of the Fonts Plugin. I am liking it so far but I could still add the plugin later. I have also removed the right sidebar so that blogging is more the focus. I blog because I wish to share my images and words for the joy I receive from that experience and not my ego. I now have a dropdown menu located in the footer for Categories, Archives, and giving the reader the ability of subscribing to notifications of new posts, it that interests you. Be aware you will get an email each time I post which could be 20-25 days a month. The Blogroll that was located in the sidebar is now on the main menu at the top which loads up a page of blogs I follow and websites I have interests in. You can check them out if you’re bored or can’t go to sleep or want to see if you’re listed.
If you do take a look at my Archives menu you will find my blog posts from 2009-2011 do not have images attached. And, this could be true of any post due to the import process. When I exported those posts I failed to also export the media. So I’ve imported the blog posts without them and will add the files later when the snow is falling and it’s too cold to be outside or I just say to heck with them. I’m not sure they are that important to anyone but me as I’m finding I actually am enjoying the process of looking back over those old posts.
Please let me know what you think of the new look and if you find any issues.
4 Comments
Earl
The blog looks good, Monte, it’s still a clean, simple and elegant design. I did have some issues getting here, but I understand those might all be temporary as part of the transistion so I’ll just wait a while and see. For example, my browser says you site certificate and its identify is not confirmed so I must tell it it’s okay to visit. Also the website is showing as “https://montestevensqrnvz.blog/.” It’s the “qrnvz” after your name I’m not clear about but as I said, this all might be transition stuff. Take care!
Monte Stevens
I’m surprised you found this as it still tells me it is pending. The qrnvs.blog is the default name I subscribed to. Hopefully it will eventually be “montestevens.com.” WordPress said it would take up to 72 hours to transfer the domain. I like the looks without the sidebar. Maybe tomorrow it will all be up and running.
Tom Dills
Even with the temporary url your posts are coming into my feed in Feedly, so something is connecting, somehow! I haven’t had a chance to go back and play with my theme yet but am pretty happy with the way things are looking. Your site looks good to me!
Monte Stevens
WordPress is telling me that montestevens.com is pointing to montestevesnqrnvz.blog. It shows me on the dashboard that the .com url is pointing to the .blog url. It also tells me that the .com transfer is still pending. They told me it could 72 hours. Once it goes active I will make it the primary domain name. I suspect it all be fine once they finish doing whatever it is. Thanks for looking at the site and letting me know you are okay with it.