Monday, June 23, 2008

new and improved

Filed under: Announcing

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Welcome to Sassy Radish 2.0 — this has been a project in the works for quite some time. And you will still see some additions, changes, tweaks. The categories, I know are slightly out of order – so they’ll be fixed.

But what you get instead of the old design are the following improvements:

1. Recipe Index – perhaps the most useful feature of the newly redesigned site.
2. Cleaner, breathe-easy design – I’m a big fan of whitespace and hope you are as well.
3. Better categorization.
4. Tag cloud, so you can search you an ingredient or a theme (also being tweaked as clearly you can’t see it at the moment).
5. Last 5 entries/comments.
6. About me page – which is still blank, mostly because I can’t come up with anything interesting to write about me.
7. Conversions page – being tweaked.
8. I’ll add Archives by Month on the left hand side too.
9. Logo — the little radish outline is now the official logo!

I will be tweaking this more in the upcoming weeks, but in the meantime let me know your your comments and suggestions.

Last, but not least, this site could not have been made possible without the hard work of my friend Katy, a designer par excellence who put this site together and to whom I owe a debt of gratitude and beyond!

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11 Comments

  • Robin said:

    Looks great Radish! I love the new logo, and am a big fan of the tag cloud. Great job.

    June 23, 2008 12:49 pm
  • It looks gorgeous! Well done!

    June 23, 2008 3:17 pm
  • radish said:

    Thanks ladies — now I have to figure out why the darn thing won’t print recipes — I’ve been looking at it from time to time today, but sadly they don’t pay me to work on my blog here, and so I’ve been unable to fix so far. Will try to do so this week. If anyone knows MT — and might know what the issue is, please drop me a line :) or leave a comment!!

    June 23, 2008 3:34 pm
  • EB said:

    Holy cow! Gorgeous!

    June 23, 2008 6:37 pm
  • melissa said:

    Looks great. Love the white. :)

    June 24, 2008 12:54 am
  • Beautiful, airy, refreshing design! The new features are wonderful.

    June 24, 2008 7:00 am
  • Helen said:

    Oh my goodness, where have I been! I absolutely love the new design, that mini radish outline is gorgeous. I totally agree with you about the white space, it’s really clean and fresh. I think I need to go and re-design my site now….

    June 25, 2008 4:36 pm
  • Sarah said:

    You have definitely inspired me too (might have to make the big white space jump, myself) with this gorgeous, airy, fresh redesign! I might even hire Katy if she’ll have me!

    June 25, 2008 5:26 pm
  • Luisa said:

    gorgeous!!! i love the new design – it’s stunning.

    June 26, 2008 12:31 pm
  • radish said:

    Thank you everyone — Katy worked really hard on this and it’s definitely a long labor of love! the little logo makes me giggle every time i look at it!

    June 26, 2008 12:59 pm
  • David said:

    Yay. Nice new look : )

    July 15, 2008 5:18 pm

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