Okay. I worked on the look of my blog all last night. I slaved over Photoshop to produce this header
with lots of help from my husband all by myself. I called my sister to ask her how it looks on a "regular" computer screen, because I have a wide screen and I realize not everyone has a wide screen. She told me the header fills her screen, and she can only see the title of the top post but none of the body of the post (and a few of the words on either sidebar). I don't want you to come to my blog and be assaulted by a picture of giant seahorses if they do in fact assault your eyes. On my wide screen, it looks normal. Meaning my eyes aren't being assaulted.
While I am most likely going to keep it basically the same, I want to know what you think about the sizing, and if anything looks distorted. And who knows - I might not be able to change it anyway. Since I'm so brilliant at the computer stuff.
Oh, and I will tell you in a later post why I chose seahorses. It wasn't just random.
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I love it, Erin! It looks great. I have an ancient laptop and can only see the writing part on my own layout (none of the color on the sides) and I can see everything on this one and it doesn't look squished or anything like that. I even get about the first paragraph of the top post. Nice work.
And I'm interested in that seahorse story. . .
It looks perfect to me, and I am on a fairly new Mac. I love the sea horses.
Looks great. I love seahorses :)
Lovely! Well done :)
It looks good to me. I was wondering why you chose seahorses, and now I'm curious. Fill us in!
looks good!
It looks great. You should get someone to photoshop a little laptop in front of mama seahorse. :)
Looks fabulous on my computer!
Well Done =)
Bien Hecho!
I love the seahorses...and it looks fine on both my normal screen, and the wide screen!
I have a widescreen and it looks great! Good work!
I think it looks great. I really like the 3 column layout.
Erin, I am a computer freak, and I just checked every size and every width,
looks great in all!!
In the smallest it is right with your sister, but it doesn't bad, it still looks great.
If you want more of your post showing for a smaller screen, then just shorten your photo in photoshop. Or I can change it for you in your html.
Sooo cute!
I really like it! The seahorses are cute...can't wait to hear the story behind them.
I may need your husband's help...my header always looks good on my screen (not widescreen), but looks weird, and non-centered on a widescreen computer. I don't know how to change it.
I think it looks great!!! I'm on a little laptop screen - 13" and it looks fab-u-lous!
looks great
Hey, it's looking good, and the seahorses are so innocent and playful looking- I love them. Please teach us how to switch to 3 column!
PS_ Got the choc bar yesterday...I can't wait to try it, but first pictures. I need to post about my bloggy blessings!
I have a wide screen too, but it looks lovely.
It's super cute!
It looks great! Very cute!
I like it. And the size looks fine on my normal screen. (Do tell why the sea horses!)
I am looking at it from a wide screen at the moment, so it looks fine from here. But I have to tell you I LOVE the color and theme, tooooooo cute, and totally original, have not seen anything remotely like it.
Good job! I am excited to find out the reason!
Looks great on mine! I am in love with the font you chose for your header. Very nice!
Looks good on mine too :)
I love the font too!
It looks really good! I tried and tried to figure out photo shop and paint.net, but I really just can't do it. Maybe if I took a class or something... It's the same with video games, I think I am technologically challenged. So, with that in mind, I really like the new look! Curious about the seahorses. Everyone has an animal/creature that means something to them. Wonder if thats what they are to you. Mine is an Owl.
I love it, Erin! The sea horses are great!
I love the new look. It kinda makes me want an orange creamsickle. That's a good thing.
I'm not assaulted at all! It fit perfectly on my screen. But I do have a widescreen. Either way it looks great! Can't wait to read the story behind the seahorses!
I LOVE it! It all looks just right (size wise) from my view. I like the colors you have chosen as well. Soft, subtle! You did GOOD!
It looks just fine on my screen! But I've got a widescreen.
Very pretty, and works fine on my (wide) screen.
I love seahorses.
Looks normal to me too. Ship-shape.
Love it! Can't wait to hear about the reasoning behind the sea horses.
It looks great on my screen. I am going to have to pay a blog designer because of exactly what you said...first, once i do something, I can't figure out how to undo it, and second, once I start messing with it, I stay up all night.
I'm very proud to know someone who can do this stuff themselves. Congratulations!!!
I Love It!!! It looks great on my laptop!
Did you choose them because the males of that species are the ones who are pregnant?
I have widescreen, too, so have the same problem with my blog AND my website. Can't wait to hear the story behind the seahorses!
I really like your new look! I need to give my music blog a face lift. But, I'm pretty dense about all things creative.
Very nicely done! Isn't it fun to have done your own layout? Cute seahorses--can't wait to hear the full story =)
Love the seahorses. You even got one as a favicon— cool. Very well done I must say.
Can't wait to hear the story about the seahorses.
Simplicity is awesome. And I love seahorses. Know why? Cause the males carry the babies and give birth. Truly inspired!
Love the color--very soothing. And the seahorses are definitely not overwhelming. But I think my lap-top is wide-screen.
I love the color and the sea horses. It looks good.
LOVE the new blog. Ok, I have to tell you that the only reason he went potty twice today is because we were at Target after conference and he picked out this high school musical radio that plays songs and he wanted it SOOO bad so we bought it and brought it home and put it on top of the toilet. As soon as he went potty, he got to play with it and wouldn't you know it... he went!!! We were sooo happy! Then he wanted to wear underwear and 3 hours later after MULTIPLE times of asking him if he needed to go potty, he peed in them. UGH! So there went the radio. Back on the toilet. He cried and cried. Then to get it back he went again on ythe potty after his bath... maybe it's just a pattern thing. So maybe we're on the right track....?
I need to add to my comment that the REASON we had the potty toy idea is because I think I had asked you about this before and you told me about the trains.... Thank you so much for the idea!!! It's the ONLY thing that worked so far!
I've got an old computer. The header's a little bigger than normal, but not much. I can see your title about about 3 lines of text. I would not consider myself assaulted.
I was just reading Fiauna and you mentioned that you would love to tell your story, but are a little afraid of the judgement that would follow. I know that I really don't know you, but I just wanted to say that I'm interested in your story. And I promise that there will not be one iota of judgement.
Just a thought.
And I'm officially adding you to my reader. I'm not quite sure why these things take so long for me....
It scared me for a second because I thought I was in the wrong place but I like it. It all looks perfectly balanced to me and the light color and seahorses...it works. Very pleasant for the time of year!
Super Cute!! Love the new look!
Did you fix it? Because it isn't assulting my eyes at all! It's cute!
Looks great! So creative...the best i can do is borrow off the free blog background websites!
:~D
...I'm not dissing the free blog background sites. I love Them!
:~D
It looks great! No assaulting sea horses. They look cute and happy floating on by.
Thank you, thank you, thank you for the package! ;)
So cute! I do see big seahorses and only the title of your post but I didn't feel assaulted. However, now that you mention it, shrink the 'horses down a little wouldn't be a bad thing. I love the colors. Different and nice.
I totally love it!!! I noticed immediately that you had changed the look and the colors look great and I'm totally diggin' the seahorses!
Love your new blog design!
I love it, the colors and the seahorses. Very creative and cool.
I'm just barely getting caught up on 75 blog entries by various people, but I just wanted to say, i LOVE the new look! It's very cute.
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