You might have noticed that Contest Corner got a makeover this morning! I was up all night installing a new WordPress theme that Jai and I created. The navigation and layout has been refined with the goal of making it easier and faster to browse the site; I also changed…
This morning, I am excited to unveil two new blogs and announce several forthcoming upgrades and improvements coming to Contest Corner! New sites: Beeb-Log is my brand lifestyle blog, featuring reviews, photography, recipes, personal posts, and much more. Cooking Catastrophe is a fun new blog that looks at the funny…
As a London-born British expat living in the US, I'm a long way from home - but there are constant reminders of the my nationality. Some are subtle, yet important cultural differences (Lack of tea) and some are larger (Like filling in the extensive paperwork to renew my greencard!). But…
In observation of Christmas and New Year's, Jai and I are taking a short vacation from Friday, December 21st through Wednesday, January 2nd. Our holiday programming schedule is as follows: Posts: There are new posts scheduled every day through our break, so there will still be fresh content here every…
Today is the first day of October, which kicks off Anti-Bullying Month. This initiative has been started with the hopes of shining light on this issue and working on solutions. One such advocate is Captain McFinn and Friends, a loveable storybook series featuring the adventures of underwater pals who hope…
I want to apologize to anyone who visited my site in the wee hours of the morning and got a malware warning. An ad network which we are a part of, IZEA Media, announced today that one of their advertising publishers was serving malware, which caused all of us in…
My apologies for the site downtime this morning! We had an issue with our web host temporarily shutting down our site due to traffic/CPU usage slowing down their server. You'll notice that a few cosmetic features have been modified - we did that to get the site back up immediately…
We have officially moved everything over to our new web host! It was a huge job, but it went more smoothly than anticipated with no known downtime. Hooray! As I mentioned on Facebook earlier today, there was a period when the domain was propagating during which comments were at risk…
I wanted to give everyone a heads-up that Contest Corner will be moving to a new web host this weekend. This won't mean anything different for the look or usability of the site - this is purely a backend upgrade in order to speed up loading time and make our…
You may have noticed that as of today, all of our giveaways are now utilizing Rafflecopter. What do you think? I'm personally very excited about the switch as it not only makes it much faster for my readers to enter giveaways, but much faster for me to post them. And…
