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| Tina Michelle |
Posted - Dec 27 2007 : 10:53:29 AM
Hi Gals,
My husband has been creating a new site for the magazine "Small Town Living"
and we'd like to get some feedback. It is a work in progress, and we'd like to know what you think.
The web address is:
www.stliving.com
~Seize the Day! Live, Love, Laugh~
visit me at:
http://gardengoose.blogspot.com/
and at www.stliving.net
you can also check out my etsy shops at:http://GardenGooseGifts.etsy.com |
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| Tina Michelle |
Posted - Dec 30 2007 : 9:06:50 PM
thank you. Paul is still learning all about the website creating program and will try to change those font colors/other colors out that weren't too popular/were hard to read..and so forth.. he said it's alot harder than just clicking a button, but he'll get back on the website and try to figure things out soon.
thanks everyone for the input.
~Seize the Day! Live, Love, Laugh~
visit me at:
http://gardengoose.blogspot.com/
and at www.stliving.net
you can also check out my etsy shops at:http://GardenGooseGifts.etsy.com |
| therusticcottage |
Posted - Dec 30 2007 : 6:22:36 PM
Tina - the new site looks fabulous!!! Paul did a great job. I love the colors and the layout.
My Etsy Shop http://therusticcottage.etsy.com
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PROUD FARMGIRL SISTER #100
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| junebug |
Posted - Dec 30 2007 : 4:38:23 PM
Looks GREAT Tina, pat Paul on the back for me! I too have to agree with the grey and orange, too hard on the eyes, mine any way! lol I'll be sure to pass the word around!
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www.countrypleasures.blogspot.com
My Etsy store:
www.heart2home.etsy.com
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| Tina Michelle |
Posted - Dec 30 2007 : 4:04:53 PM
thanks Jessica...and everyone.
I grew up in a small town in South Florida..and well..I have been transplanted to the city for the last 17 ...nearly 18 yrs.
My heart still belongs in a small city though..and I constantly cultivate that "small town" mentality.."farm girl mentality" within myself..even though I have been in a city for so long.
Everywhere I have lived in this city..I continually have to have flowers,and birds and "countrified" things surrounding me.
The magazine is truly more of who I am ,and what my heart is about... and who my husband is as well...
that's why when my husband might get frustrated with all the work that goes into creating the magazine(and believe me..it is a lot of work for which we don't get any monetary gain from) but the kind comments from our readers...and the reward of a job well done..and the satisfaction of sharing wonderful things with others..I tell him that we can't stop..we have to keep doing it.
The reward is in finding information that we ourselves love to know about..and then in turn sharing it with others. It's been a win/win situation. We learn new and wonderful things right along with our readers..and in that is a great reward.
It brings great joy to us to know that even though we are "babies" at this sort of thing...having only been bringing the magazine to folks for a year. That there are so many already that get great joy from reading and viewing the images that we have shared through the magazine.It's been a very rewarding experience thus far.
~Seize the Day! Live, Love, Laugh~
visit me at:
http://gardengoose.blogspot.com/
and at www.stliving.net
you can also check out my etsy shops at:http://GardenGooseGifts.etsy.com |
| kydeere40744 |
Posted - Dec 30 2007 : 1:10:04 PM
Tina - I've always enjoyed your website and magazine and keep telling others about them. Gosh if I ever get the chance, I'll try to write up an article or two with some photos to send your way. Miranda Lambert has her song that came out earlier this year and I thought of our small town when I heard the lyric "Everybody dies famous in a small town." I love living in a small town much more than when I lived in the city for 4 years!! There is nothing like it.
Keep up the great work!!
~Jessica in Kentucky & Miss Wilma's Niece~
Gardening is a way of showing that you believe in tomorrow... |
| Tina Michelle |
Posted - Dec 28 2007 : 8:41:41 PM
bump
~Seize the Day! Live, Love, Laugh~
visit me at:
http://gardengoose.blogspot.com/
and at www.stliving.net
you can also check out my etsy shops at:http://GardenGooseGifts.etsy.com |
| Tina Michelle |
Posted - Dec 28 2007 : 10:35:59 AM
thank you all so much. loving the input and implementing the ideas.thank you.
~Seize the Day! Live, Love, Laugh~
visit me at:
http://gardengoose.blogspot.com/
and at www.stliving.net
you can also check out my etsy shops at:http://GardenGooseGifts.etsy.com |
| EllynAnne |
Posted - Dec 28 2007 : 09:43:38 AM
Hey! I so enjoy visiting your site because it is a literal breath of fresh air, with writing and photography that are equally crisp and inviting. What I'm wondering though is whether y'alls choice of the banner photo featuring a farm doesn't change the first impression of the site's content to rural versus small town, sometimes the same, but often not.
I am surrounded by small towns, and were I to photograph life in any of them, I'd take pictures of the blue plate special at a local dinery, melting icing on a homemade cinnamon bun, a neighborhood with porches, tree swings, a church marque advertising the Sunday sermon, milk delivery... Think Kodak moments of Small Town Living.
I may be way off track with my opinion, but I took your invitation to comment as genuine and I hope you will view it as an attempt to be helpful, not critical.
And, by the by, if you have openings for contributors, I'd love to write an article for STL.
EllynAnne
www.apronmemories.com
Tie One On...an apron, of course!
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| Patsy |
Posted - Dec 28 2007 : 05:35:29 AM
Tina,
Wow....love it. I will visit it often. Still hoping one day to see a hard copy of your magazine on the newstands. Pray it will happen.
May God bless those who love the soil,
Patsy
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| Tina Michelle |
Posted - Dec 27 2007 : 6:47:35 PM
we will actually maintain both websites..the dot com and the dot net sites.
The dot net will have the magazine only on it..but the dot com will be for our readers to share information and ideas with others.
~Seize the Day! Live, Love, Laugh~
visit me at:
http://gardengoose.blogspot.com/
and at www.stliving.net
you can also check out my etsy shops at:http://GardenGooseGifts.etsy.com |
| Tina Michelle |
Posted - Dec 27 2007 : 4:25:45 PM
thank you! please feel free to sign up on the new site.
We'll officially "open the doors" real soon.
We'd appreciate any and all feedback/ideas on what you'd like to see.
Thanks so much for the feedback thus far.
~Seize the Day! Live, Love, Laugh~
visit me at:
http://gardengoose.blogspot.com/
and at www.stliving.net
you can also check out my etsy shops at:http://GardenGooseGifts.etsy.com |
| willowtreecreek |
Posted - Dec 27 2007 : 3:22:54 PM
looks great tina! Paul did a good job.
Farmgirl Sister #17
Blog
www.willowtreecreek.wordpress.com
Felt and Fabric Crafts
www.willowartist.etsy.com
www.willowtreecreek.com
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| farmgirl blessings |
Posted - Dec 27 2007 : 1:39:01 PM
Tina,
I am so impressed with your new site. It is very attractive and so interesting. I believe I checked out every link & registered as well. It is sure to be one of my very favorites!
Blessings, Lea
www.farmhouseblessings.blogspot.com
www.farmhouseblessings.etsy.com
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"He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose." Jim Elliot |
| MasterGardener |
Posted - Dec 27 2007 : 11:23:26 AM
Yeaaaa! Thanks Tina! While I LOVE the olive green background & it's good with the black font; the gray colored font is tough to read, but the orange "pops". The Khaki is good/easy to read too.
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She considereth a field, and buyeth it; with the fruit of her hands she planteth a vineyard.
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