New Features:
I am pleased to announce a new feature to the Local Cake Decorating Directory, enabling class providers to list in multiple locations.
This means any class provider who regularly holds classes in more than one location can advertise their classes in the directory and have them listed in the state and city held.
All listings will point to the providers primary website, allowing visitors to locate further information as required.
Derek and I work very closely as a web development team. We are always keen to hear from our advertisers and visitors to ensure that our site provides the best experience for both.
I am very pleased and proud to announce that the Local Cake Decorating Classes Directory is now live on this site.
This exciting new addition has been developed after the many queries I have received from visitors who were finding my site looking for information about classes local to them. The classes are listed by state and city, and class features are assigned to each one, enabling visitors to easily find the best class for them.
Along with the new Classes Directory, the Cake Decorating Classes website has a whole new homepage, making it easier for visitors to find exactly what they are looking for; be it local cake decorating classes, information about online cake decorating courses, or to connect with cake decorating bloggers.
Lindsay.
Well not quite, but I have been distracted from working on my new site plugin by adding Twitter and Facebook buttons to the site. The buttons are visible on all blog pages within the cake decorating blog directory, my Blog and on my About page . These buttons will help both blog owners and blog fans share things of interest.
I have also joined Twitter and Facebook to enable me to post updates about the site entries and improvements. This provides a new way for blog owners and fans to keep up-to-date with any additions, new blogs and promotions.
I think these changes will all help improve the user experience for all my visitors.
I have added a new listing type to the cake decorating blog directory, called Basic. On the category pages, it will appear as a smaller entry and side-by-side beneath Standard and Featured listings.
There are several reasons for this new listing type. The main one is it enables me to enter blogs I find quicker than before and without having to review them. I still intend to work through all blogs and write a review, but this means I can add them for others to find much sooner. There will be more changes to the Basic listing over time, but for now I am busy with other features for the site.
I’m very pleased with the way my new graphics have turned out. Variations of the design will appear in different places when a featured blog is displayed. My main priority was to have a badge to appear on a featured blog page, to make it special, but once I started creating graphics they spread elsewhere.
So, now there are stars all over the place, but I think they brighten the site up nicely.
If anyone has visited the blog directory you may have noticed two new buttons in the side bar, and if you haven’t go and have a look, but not until you’ve read this :-)
The new buttons are for United Kingdom blogs and Australian blogs. They each take you to a similar blog directory that contains UK and Australian blogs respectively. So there are now even more blogs to look through and hopefully find something new.
Better get on with adding blogs as you wouldn’t believe the huge list I have,
Lindsay
