This blog is one of my favoritest things to do in the whole world. It’s the reason I stayed in a beach bungalow in Malaysia and never came out of my bungalow. It’s the reason my relationships fail and why I never go out ever. But that’s okay because I love it and I choose it and I’m totally fine with being single for the rest of my life as long as I have commenters telling me I’m funny.
I’ve decided to take it up a notch. Not only have I ordered a straight jacket-like device to tether myself to my computer, I have just upgraded to WordPress. If you have no idea what this means (hi, Mom! ), I warned you this post was for blog nerds only. There is STILL such a fiery debate online about which platform is better, and I was swayed by lots of bloggers to finally switch over. I mainly wanted to be able to respond better to comments and to take advantage of the SEO. Because, seriously, for such a passionate project, not many people are reading this here blog. Still. Since 2008.
I wanted to be more professional so, after spending two full weekends crying at my computer, I decided it was worth the money to actually pay someone to give this blog a re-design. I went with shatterboxx media because they say they’re gutsy. And then I told the designer, Jamie, I wanted the simplest design ever. Very gutsy. I’m not even sure they’ll claim this as theirs, but I LOVE it! Get it!? The robots are saying that humans are funny. Get it!? If you’re reading this in a reader, check it out, man. The robots are laughing at us. Get it?!
WordPress only transfered over 80% of my links, so I’ll have to go through and figure out which are missing. They also did not transfer over the commenters’ links, so that’s annoying. I’m also confused about the feed, so I have to still work that out. And some links don’t yet work. But STILL, I’m already loving it so much more than Blogger. It’s very simple, and is so much more customizable. I definitely feel more legit now that I can get my opinion in the cool blogger debate. WordPress! WordPress! WordPress! If you think that’s blognerdy, you should also know that I’ve signed up for the next WordPress conference, so I will be talking with other blog nerds all about their favicons and traffic tips. Yes!
What’s that you say? You say this weekend is meant to be spent at the beach, frolicking in the sun because it’s a 3-day weekend and that’s what people do? No, my friends. The presidents would want me to be inside working hard on this here blog. Trust me. I know presidents. Barack emails me almost every day.
If you have any feedback on this new design, I’d love to hear it. I like feedback.
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Well, you are as pretty as you are funny so I don’t expect your status as a single woman to remain permanent…
I don’t have any tech prefence as to whatever host or platform that a blog is made with. On the serious side, could do with more color… and for real, you deserve a hip design…
Yay! Check it out. I can reply directly to you! Hi Mark! Whattup? How is your blog today? What’s the weather like in Omaha?
I actually hate color! I told her i wanted everything grey and she convinced me otherwise. ha.
Love this no site. Love your writings.
Meant to say new site.
Coooool! And I can say ‘thanks’ right back at you! Aw man, Wordpress is so cool.
Laurenne you are truly funny.
I love your blog.
Thanks, Katieeeeeee!
Yayy new site! I had a mini freak when I clicked on the link and it took me to this site – I was all, WHERE DID SHE GO! Oh hey, you’re here, with a kick ass robot.
Yayyyyyy! Did you see the ‘other humans’ tab? You’re in there, baby. Nice comment on depression on YOUR blog, which is GREAT everybody.
I can’t verify that I’m a human either. Robots seem way cooler.
Oooo, fancy! I love robots!
looks fantastic!!!
personally, i like the lack of color. i hope you’ll still display your artwork though!
I am weighing in on the Blogger vs. Wordpress debate very, very soon. I started my second blog (ya know, so I can talk about being tied up by boys and no one freaks out or whatever) on a wordpress format.
Still figuring it out. But soon, after I figure out how the hell I… well, do *anything* on there, I am going to give my two cents.
Until then, I’ll just sit quietly and be fucking glad you like blogging so much. Because I sure like your blog.
My wordpress site never looked like this. On the other hand my blogger site has a guy with a beard on it.
Advantage?
Push.
robots? wordpress? I am so afraid…
Love the new layout!!!! Don’t change the content though, that’s perfect just the way it is! <3
nice.
Whenever I put a link to your blog as my gchat status, people always tell me that I find really awesome posts to pimp. It’s true. I am really good at that. I’m like the best at it. Ever. I am awesome, you know? You can’t fight city hall. It is what it is. There’s a compliment in there for you somewhere.
you put a link up to my blog in gchat? Awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww. That’s the sweetest thing anyone’s ever said.
Love the new bots but kinda miss the line drawings…
Me toooooo! I will fit them in somewhere. Thank youuuuuu!
I lived in Venice Beach last year and came across a link to your blog on Yo! Venice! I’ve been a follower ever since and have read most of your archives. I start a lot of conversations with “I heard something interesting on NPR,” “I read this article in the NY Times,” and now “I read this blog, Humans are Funny, and let me tell you why the woman who writes it is so amazing.” Last weekend one of my friends said that he had relayed your Papua New Guinea adventure I had shared with him to another person over dinner.
All of this to say, you are more popular than you know.
Coooooool!!! Thanks! I have always wanted to be popular! thank you thank you thank you!
YES…GOOD! LOVE IT! (oh man, should I switch? Pressssuurree)
Barack emails me almost every day, too! Love you, love your show.
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