When I first started Veggie Friendly in January last year I was feeling my way gently into the blogging world. I wanted my site to be user friendly, but other than that I didn’t spend a lot of time on the overall look.

As time went by I always meant to create a new header, and update the colour scheme, but only once I’d bought a camera and learned to edit photos, entered some blogging events, and tried that new restaurant that everyone says has good vegetarian food….

Fast forward a year and a half, and with Andy’s prompting help we finally sat down yesterday and did a blog makeover. Andy made my day by creating a beautiful new header for me and helping me fix some of technical glitches. Thanks honey!

For the techies out there, I’ve changed to the SouthRiver wordpress theme by AskGraphics, updated to Wordpress 2.2 (without making a late night panicked phone call to Scott) and installed a different google map plug-in (geo-mashup) because Plug and Play Google Map didn’t cope too well with the change.

I almost went with geo-mashup when I first set up my google map but the original plug-in didn’t play well with my blog. This version has been a dream to install, and has the neat feature of adding a geo code locator to each post rather than relying on the separate geo-code plug-in for which you have to source your own geo code information. I noticed that the geo-mashup plug-in also comes with images for different coloured balloons. If I can figure out how I’ll try to differentiate vegetarian, vegan and non-veg restaurants on the map.

I’ve also tidied up a few features, like ditching the annoying snap preview plug-in, and will add a profile and contact details. There are still a couple of things I need to work out - like a way to automatically make text display above or below images instead of wrapping around them. Tips are welcome!

Let me know what you think and if there are any other features that you’d like to see. I’m finding a few bugs as a result of changing themes, so please let me know if you find anything amiss.

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