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Thank you all very much

posted March 08

Here is the newest layout. It’s pretty much finished (with the exception of the advertising & affie bits…still working that out!) and I’m very happy with how it’s turned out. It kinda reminds me of how I used to make layouts, and that makes me smile like a nerd who just got a new pokemon card. I hope you guys like it too. Of course if you don’t, well uh try squinting – see if you like it then??

One person that I would like to thank is Amy over at E-Starr Hosting. She’s the superwoman behind swimchick even being alive and she really is a one of a kind, genuine person. When I ran out of bandwidth last month I still had about 2 or so weeks til the end of February and instead of letting SC just rot in suspension she got it back for me right away. I’ve been with E-starr since the ‘birth of SC’ (if you will) and I’ve never had a single problem with them. They haven’t screwed me over or just deleted my things like I’ve seen with other websites. Yup there are lots of horror stories involving hosting and guess what, I have none of them ;) I wasn’t asked to write this about my host, I just felt like because of all their great service to me it’s really the least I could do. So yeah I’m not being slipped a fifty through paypal for this JUST SO YOU GUYS KNOW~ I’m a nice person and I like to show my appreciation to those who help me out on a daily basis.

I’m so thankful to have a reliable, non psycho hosting service with me on my website journey. They’re real people and they know what they’re doing. If you ever wanna join the e-starr family WE CAN BE SISTERS/BROTHERS. :)

I’d also like to thank Sumaiya for helping me thus far. As both a friend and a teacher. I can’t even put into words how much I’ve learned from this chicka….It’s amazing what one person can teach you, coding and non-coding. Sumaiya has helped swimchick grow and has helped me realize what needs to be changed in order to make swimchick better. She’s a great person and very dear to me – and even though she knows all the answers to the questions I’m going to ask, it’s okay because I word them funny and so she can’t answer them properly hehehehee.

Anddddd I wanna thank….uh…well, everyone. I seriously have the best visitors IN THE WORLD. Lady Gaga calls her fans MONSTERS. What the hell is that?? I will never call you guys monsters. That’s messed up. What if a real monster was one of her fans? He’d be pissed.

You guys are my homies. My AMIGOS CHICKOS. Uhhh..my…irfeeah!! (friend in arabic) LOOOL wow fail @ writing arabic in english. Can’t happen.

Oh and if you’re still reading this, that’s great because I’m going to tell you the big news of mine. I’ll be living in Switzerland for three months in May. Yup, swissylandddd!!!

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Comments

  1. WOAH leaving in Switzerland? That is going to be amazing! Are you going there as an exchange or something? I really have no words for that, I would like to be sent there for at least a month haha. Yeah the layout looks amazing and I liked the idea that it looked like your old layouts. The CSS as I said before is amazing. And the rollovers on the nav thumbs up I really enjoy looking at the new website layout. BEST OF LUCK in Switzerland Jess, have a great time there

    Rafa posted this March 08 * # Reply

  2. the new layout is amazing!

    kishen posted this March 08 * # Reply

  3. I LOVE THE NEW LAYOUT!!
    It does look like what you used to make, and I LOVED that.
    Wow Switzerland??? 3 months?? Wow, hope you have fun :D

    Esme posted this March 08 * # Reply

  4. Switzerlandd?! That sounds awesomeee. :)
    I’d kill to be able to live in any part of europe for that longg. I hope you have a great time!

    Dalia posted this March 08 * # Reply

  5. Really like the new layout! And good luck with Switzerland, how did that come about?!

    Harriet posted this March 08 * # Reply

  6. I love the new layout!! :D

    Natalie posted this March 08 * # Reply

  7. I love the new layout. :) Maybe the next tutorial is about making those kind of abstract graphic. :)) love to learn how. ♥

    JAYY posted this March 08 * # Reply

  8. Wow, I’m jealous, I’d love to go to Switzerland and see what my country is supposed to be like!(It’s called “Switzerland of Asia” but it’s hardly close to it)
    Due to my stupidly slow internet, I can’t view your header. Or the navigation for that matter, where is it? I’m doomed now. :(

    Priyanka posted this March 08 * # Reply

  9. hey! (: i love the new layout! it’s awesome! the colours and the menu are amazing ! i love it! so you’re going to Switzerland? cool, you’re lucky! i hope you’ll get a nice time.

    ida posted this March 08 * # Reply

  10. whaaaaattttt how’s it comming?
    it’s right near by me (almost 550 miles away)
    u need to blog more about it!!
    btw: love your new design

    Conny posted this March 08 * # Reply

  11. lushh layout :)
    do you have deviantart?

    ALICE:). posted this March 08 * # Reply

  12. What a lovely layout! Really really lovely. Wow, Switzerland. Everyone here says that Switzerland is a beautiful country with lovely nature and stuff. I’m really jealous you can go and live there for three months. Wieeh, you’re gonna visit Europe. Yep, I live in Europe. But why do you go to Switzerland? I like to know it. :] I dunno why GaGa calls there fans Monsters. I think because she’s a monster herself. You know, the ‘monster’ clothes she wears.

    Iris.

    Iris posted this March 08 * # Reply

  13. b-e-a-u-t-i-f-ul. as always. <3

    alicia posted this March 08 * # Reply

  14. i LOVE the layout! switzerland? AWESOME!
    can i just say one thing though? i think the placement of the search bar at the top is in a very awkward place and it doesnt look good. it almost takes away from the layout if you will. Other than that, AMAZING!

    Ali posted this March 08 * # Reply

  15. Switzerland! That’s amazing! Awesome layout

    Nicole posted this March 08 * # Reply

  16. The new layout has a great color scheme. ^ ^
    And Switzerland sounds amazing. It’s part of my lifetime goals. XD “Visit the best place to visit in Switzerland!” Haha

    Lexxii posted this March 08 * # Reply

  17. oh also, i think two glitches. one, the hover for ‘home’ shows a little bit of the hover right under it,
    and i think the font when you click the blog is larger than that of the homepage blog list. i think. lol

    Dalia posted this March 08 * # Reply

  18. (you can delete this once u see it, i dont mean to spam)
    http://i49.tinypic.com/302vs7d.jpg

    ^ it may just be my computer, idunno. first shot is when i first enter your site, second is when i click the blog title (also shows hover)

    Dalia posted this March 08 * # Reply

  19. omg! jess that’s soo cool! i love the new layout too and i’m glad that you have a great host!

    alex posted this March 08 * # Reply

  20. i agree with you jess…this layout looks like something of your older style!

    omgggg switzerland. ESPECIALLY FOR 3 MONTHS! YAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    Saera posted this March 08 * # Reply

  21. Switzerland????? Lucky!! hope you eat alot of chocolate and fish haha

    numra posted this March 08 * # Reply

  22. I’ve been with hostcherry.com for most of the time I’ve been doing web design. I haven’t had any of those problems either, accept I was down on my old website for like 1 minute. (_) other than that…no problems. Some people don’t care about website problems, but us passionate designers do. :D

    haha I love Lady Gaga, oh and the new layout to, it has a summery yet fall vibe, it’s amazing. ;)

    Switzerland? Why? I’m guessing you’ll blog about it soon? haha.

    ShellyBear posted this March 09 * # Reply

  23. hi!!
    finally i commented here. i’ve always lurked around here like a monster. i’ve been sucha big fan and alot of my designs are influenced by you!!keep it up , this is fantastic.

    Left me SPEECHLESS ahha

    iskandar posted this March 09 * # Reply

  24. layout looks great.
    Just a suggestion though. Perhaps start using a transparent background in the image or a web safe colour? Unless of course the purpose was to have it different to the background colour.
    it’s just that when you view it on a mac, it looks very different to the bg colour of the page.

    Nana posted this March 09 * # Reply