Welcome to the new Lavender Honey website!
Apr 30, 2011 
Welcome to the new Lavender Honey website! I'm so glad you're here. Let's chat about the website concept and take a tour!
In my eyes, Lavender Honey is a place where I'm free to develop my own voice, whether that voice be written, photographed, knit, sewn, or eaten. Above all, however, I want Lavender Honey to be fun and lighthearted with a bit of whimsy. My hope is that those ideas were translated into the design effectively - simple, clean, and fun!
The other driving factor in the design was content navigation. I wanted you, the reader, to be able to browse images, recipes, and tutorials with ease and enjoyment. That way, once I post a project, it doesn't eventually disappear into the blogging abyss.
For example, in the sidebar to your right there are what I called "Project Galleries." Each contains images of projects, recipes, and photography both unpublished and previously published on Lavender Honey.
After clicking on one of the project galleries, you will see a thumbnail list of image galleries.
Then you will be able to select a gallery to view, in the case I selected the "patchwork apron."
From there, you can view the images full size as well as go back to the original post, should you be interested in reading more.
I love huge images and these images are as large as possible.
Aside from "Project Galleries" you'll find search features as well as Recipe and Tutorial indices. Also, there is a "Say Hello" section with RSS and social network links!
Aren't those icons cute? I had a blast creating them and this entire website. Okay, enough talk - go click around and have fun!
P.S. A HUGE thanks to my Love, Christopher, for his help! I can't code without him.
Reader Comments (2)
The new site looks great Erin! I love the new navigation, and how easy it is to look through all of the older posts. And I love big images too :) Beautiful job!
Thank you so much, Sara!! I'm so glad you like it! And I knew you would love the larger images :)