E.Webscapes Design Studio

We flew back from Bonaire, South America this past Sunday. My husband and I, that is. Chris and I were married on 6/24 in a beautiful ceremony in upstate New York. I will have a few pictures to share here as soon as I can wrangle them away from our photographer. Randy and his crew were just amazing to work with throughout the whole process … of our wedding planning and ceremony – I just can’t say enough about them. Check out Randy’s Website: Khayman Photography – his gallery is fantastic!

You may notice that I’ve rearranged things a bit around here with the new design. I began working on this design in April and polished off the finishing touches over the past few days as I begin to drag myself back into reality again. By and large, the redesign is completed – though I will probably fine tune things here and there as time goes on and if you see anything I may have missed, drop me a line – feedback is always welcome and appreciated!

Much has happened during this hiatus that we’re excited about:

• SXSW Coordinator, Hugh Forrest, emailed an announcement that “How to Make $$ with Your Blog Design Skills” made the “SXSW Honor Roll” of best panels. This was the panel that I was one of the speakers for at the SXSW Conference in Austin this past May. That is very exciting and basically means that our panel scored a 4.0 or above (on a scale of 1-5) on the feedback provided by participants. Very much looking forward to iSXSW 2007 – I had so much fun being a part of it in ‘06!
• I launched some very fun and interesting sites shortly before my departure that I really had a great time being involved with:
  1. Blog Image Host is a free image and photo hosting service who launched their services in May ‘06.
  2. Blog Goliard was a very fun project to do that included a custom illustration done by our own We Wildermuth, talented lady that she is. She did the illustration work and I completed the rest of the template design and layout.
  3. Jane Wilson-Marquis Couture Bridal is a couture evening and bridal gown store located in Manhattan, NY. Jane does extremely wonderful and gorgeous work with her gowns and evening wear – I was thrilled to be a part of this site and involved with such amazing talent!
  4. Yuuko Suzuki is a very talented classical pianist located in Tokyo, Japan. Yuuko currently resides in Tokyo and continues to give concerts internationally in Japan, U.S.A., Brazil, France, Italy, Spain, Switzerland, Czech Republic, China, and other countries. She has a sampling of her work on her new site which is just stunning!
• I’m looking foward to attending the Wordcamp in San Francisco in August of this year. The idea is to bring WordPress users and developers so we can meet each other face to face, share stories, and try to figure out the future of our little corner of the online publishing revolution. I’ve signed up and, at this point, am 95% percent sure I will be attending.

We are getting very close to re-opening our virtual doors to accept new projects and orders again. I’m working very hard to stick to the promise of opening up my availability at the end of July (hopefully sooner!). Keep your eyes peeled here for updates on availability. You can also enter your email address in the form to the left to receive updates and notifications to your email box and be the first to be notified when our availability opens up!

Once again, thank you to EVERYONE for the well wishes, congratulations and gifts of celebration. Now that the wedding and honeymoon are over (sniff!) the plan is to hit the road running and get back to the fun of working with you on your exciting projects.

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