This is a test to see if MailChimp is sending out an email notification after I publish a new post. It didn't send out one after I published New Plants Blooming in August, or Rescuing the Madonna Lily, or What's Blooming in My Damp Meadow. If you signed up for email notifications, I hope you [...]
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Nine Reasons Why I Changed My Blog Design Plus a Duluth Trading Giveaway
May 5, 2014 – Posted in: About this siteCold Climate Gardening has gotten a makeover! I've changed the wallpaper and rearranged the furniture again. Why can't I leave well enough alone? Well, why does anyone redecorate a room? To address problems and to make it look better--and because it's fun! And I figured out some ways to make it more enjoyable for you, [...]
New Design for Cold Climate Gardening
April 6, 2009 – Posted in: About this siteWelcome to the newly designed Cold Climate Gardening. I've spent a couple of months working behind the scenes, to give you a better-looking and better-functioning website. I'm hoping it will be easier to find the information you need and to continue conversations in the online gardening community. I've created this new design using Thesis, a [...]
Yes, I know it doesn’t look right
May 18, 2008 – Posted in: About this siteI just upgraded my version of WordPress. Because I had code in my theme (design) that would no longer work with the new version of WordPress, I needed to edit the theme before I could upgrade the software. I figured while I was at it, I'd expand the width by adding another sidebar, since just [...]
Photo credits for Cold Climate Gardening website header images
March 9, 2007 – Posted in: About this site, Blogging Art and PracticeSome photos are more interesting when cropped severely So many people expressed admiration for the header images that I decided to put them in the Cold Climate Gardening Flickr pool. You can view them here. It is a challenge to find images that are still interesting once you cut them down to 780x140 pixels. On [...]
A Tour of Cold Climate Gardening: What Changed on This Website and Why
March 4, 2007 – Posted in: About this site, Blogging Art and PracticeBoredom isn't enough to motivate me to redecorate my walls or my website "Why are you changing your design?" some of my children asked, as I was making preparations for the Big Day. I could have said, for the same reason many people re-paint their walls or buy a new dress: tired of the same [...]
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