WordPress Chick ReLaunch

FINALLY!

This has been a LONG time coming. I think the post I wrote about this was a couple months ago (with screenshots).

You’ve probably seen some of my stuff out there already (twitter, facebook, email, etc.) that has the new look. I also want to share some of the new things going on here at ‘The WordPress Chick’ as well as the fun contest we’re running for the next 30 days!
I’ll also be sharing the progress of the contest, what’s working, what’s NOT working, how I’m doing what I’m doing, etc.

First:
Why I did this

It’s been almost 4 years now that I’ve been doing this and I’ve changed my site theme a few times (original one created for me, Church theme by StudioPress, Magazine theme by StudioPress, Genesis & Magazine Child theme, customized Magazine Child theme and now….. the Scribble Child theme built, of course, on Genesis!).

Probably one of the BIGGEST things you’ll notice is that my ‘Chick’ isn’t present on this site (I actually had a few people mention to me that they hoped I’d keep her around.. Thanks for that! ;-) ). I think I may have her pop up now & then, just not sure how or where (maybe a contest? hmm…). This is a VERY different look than my previous theme: new colors, new style, new logo… the works.
It’s hard when you do this for a living, are a complete geek about graphics and see NEW stuff out there ALL the time! (If you’ve ever taken a look at Brian Gardner’s site, you’ll know what I mean! He’s SUPER talented and changes his theme more than pretty much any site I visit! :-) I think I would too if I had his skills).

MY POINT… it’s hard NOT to want to change things up a bit.

The Challenge?

That is a LOT of material to change. It’s not just the theme or logo.

Second:

How could I do this differently?

If I was going to go through with this, what would be involved?
I didn’t want to just put up a new theme and that was that. So I pondered over what to do and realized why not treat this sort of like a ‘product launch”, run a contest, track what works, what doesn’t work, blog about the process and just be as transparent as possible!

Whew!

But of course all that meant more planning and work. WHICH… is fine, but if you’ve ever done anything like this and rushed it you KNOW how THAT turns out! So I took my time (and truth be told, there are still adjustments and tweaks I making. Bear with me please…) and here we are!

Enough of that!
On to the FUN STUFF!!!

Relaunch Contest!

This is going to be SUPER easy and SUPER fun!

Promise.

All you need to do to enter (& win) is to use the widget below. This widget is created by “Rafflecopter”… which is FRIGGIN AWESOME! But more about that in a post during the contest as well (remember, I’m tracking EVERYTHING).
Just follow the instructions in the widget.
You get points for each entry. There is one mandatory entry (ex: in order to enter you have to ‘share’ on fb). Once you’ve done the mandatory entry you can enter again via another method (sharing on Twitter which will give you another point/entry).
At the end of the contest (February 5th), we’ll draw a winner. Well- RAFFLECOPTER will draw the winner (yes, they make it THAT easy!)
You can enter as OFTEN as you like. We’ll be doing random drawings throughout the 30 days for additional prizes outside of the main contest prizes!