We’re excited to announce the completion of a project that has been months in the making — our blog has been redesigned, and is now called “Blooming by the Bay” instead of “Coupled Confessions.” As a few of our friends pointed out, “Coupled Confessions” was no longer very applicable now that little Mio is in the picture, and we are now a family instead of a couple. (Special thanks to our dear friend Tarrin for helping me come up with the new name for the blog!) It has also been over two years since we started this blog, so I thought it was time to give it a new look, too! It took me a lot longer than I expected it to — I’ve found that everything takes ten times longer when you have a baby to take care of! When I initially started this blog, it only took me three days to design and set it up, but I was working on this redesign on and off for over a month! Yikes! I’m so happy and relieved that I’ve finally finished it and can unveil it for you to see! (If you’re reading this through a feed reader or your email inbox, please go ahead and click through and check out the new design.)

Everything was designed by yours truly, and it was a fun project since I rarely have the time nor opportunity to work on any personal projects outside of work these days. It was a great learning experience for me, because this was my first time building a responsive layout. With so many people browsing the web on mobile devices nowadays, I really wanted to redesign the blog so that it would respond to various screen sizes and serve up different layouts accordingly. Using fluid grids, flexible images, and media queries, this has now been made possible on our blog. There are still some tweaks I need to work on (i.e. still trying to get embedded video to be elastic), but hopefully your viewing experience here will be pleasant, no matter what device you may be using! Feel free to drag and collapse your browser window in and out to see how the design and layout changes; I dare you to try to break it — but if you do, please don’t tell me until I’ve had a few days to recover from the brain-racking toll this web development has taken on me. 😉

So begins a new chapter for us in the blogosphere. Say goodbye to Coupled Confessions…

Coupled Confessions

 

…and hello to Blooming by the Bay!

Blooming by the Bay

Please let us know what you think of the new look!  Do you love it? Hate it? Don’t give a crap? We’d love to hear your feedback! 😀