Finally, a website update!

Posted by Merry in Merry's Blog

Aug
11

You may have noticed that I’ve changed the website around quite a bit. I’m proud to announce that MerryShannon.com is now entirely powered by WordPress! This means the site will be significantly easier to update, as I can do so from any computer rather than having to wait until I get home to use Dreamweaver and my FTP client. Hopefully THAT means I’ll be updating a lot more often (and maybe even getting some actual progress accomplished on my next book!!)

If you check out the new site you’ll notice most of the old content is still here, with a few exceptions; I’ve taken down all of my outdated personal image galleries, and will likely be posting personal photos here in the blog from time to time instead. There’s also a new page for “3D Character Galleries” that I’m really excited about — there’s not much on there now, but I’ve been having a great time with this new program I downloaded and can’t wait to share some of its creations with you. There’s a sneak-peek on the main page, in fact, as I used one of the images from the program to create a Branded Ann banner…

You’ll notice a new feature on several of the pages here: the ability to leave comments. I was receiving so much spam via the previous website’s contact form that it was very hard to sift through and find real notes from you guys… so now not only is there a new and improved contact form that will hopefully be spam-proof, you can also leave comments for me here in the blog, or comments about the books on their pages! Cool, huh?

And the other big difference, of course, is this blog itself, which I hope to update with at least some regularity now that it’s up and running!

Not quite EVERYTHING is up yet, as I still have a few sections to finish filling out and some tweaks to the overall design, but thus far I’m really pleased with it. So welcome to the new website, have a look around, and if you like, let me know what you think! <3