All change...

You may have noticed that I've switched from my rather Edwardian colour scheme (green and cream - OK, so it was probably more arsenic green than Edwardian green, but...) to something unashamedly P-I-N-K.

There's a very good reason for that.

Last year, at Kate Walker's 50th book blog party, I won a banner from the lovely and talented Heather Reed. Last year was a tad difficult, work-wise, so it took me ages to get round to talking to her about the banner. And then I had all this bright idea to learn CSS and do myself a website that will be a lot easier to update in future. Could she do me a banner?

Yep, and it's lovely.

But then real life got in the way. Big time. No way would I have the time to sit down and learn CSS properly and build the whole thing from scratch myself. So I asked Heather if she could do me the CSS shell so I'd be able to update it etc myself and fiddle with things as I get more time to read my CSS book.

So she did me proud. I have a new website. I've spent most of this week working on it (displacement activity while I'm waiting for my revisions). Heather has been wonderful about my 'I can see the code should work - so how come I'm seeing big blank areas and all my columns have vanished?' emails... in the end, we couldn't work out the answer to that - I think it might be my browser - but I worked out an alternative that I could see on the screen and check all the links.

There are bound to be glitches in there (it's a big site!) but I'll iron them out as I come across them (or as anyone tells me, hint, hint).

Do go and have a look and tell me what you think!