Thank you very much for reading Life on the Balcony. By far, the best part of writing here is interacting with the people who leave comments or send me emails. I love reading about your gardening experiences and learning from your tips and ideas. I hope you’re having a wonderful Thanksgiving and are enjoying time with your family and friends.
If you’re reading this while you’re waiting for the food to be ready, or maybe after everyone has gone home and your house is quiet, please take a couple of seconds to take a short survey about Life on the Balcony. From time to time, I try and guage reader likes/dislikes and interests so that I can better plan posts that cater to what people want to read. I’m also planning a redesign of the site for the next few months, and I want to be sure to fix anything that is annoying you or that you think is missing. I hope you’ll help me out. 
p.s. If you head over to the Life on the Balcony Facebook page, you’ll be able to see a mockup of the new design. Things are still pretty rough, but I’d appreciate your feedback.
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Once the survey was gone, I realized it is anonymous. You can guess which one was mine, I mentioned the increased loading time caused by the fancy background.
What happens is, those on slow servers see a dark, plain background for a lengthy time as it loads, decide your blog is hard to read and fail to wait for the pretty parts to come up, as evidenced by my friends who mention certain blogs they didn’t like. Turned out, they never waited for the attractive blog to load. They jumped to the conclusion that what they saw first was the entire blog and left.
@LifeOnTheBlcny your new design looks awesome Fern! Nice work
Nell — .013% of LOTB readers are on dialup. So hopefully the tiny fraction of readers that may experience slow loading times will just read the content without regard to what the background looks like. Also, I use several different behind the scenes bits of code that help speed up the load time, especially for repeat visitors. The bottom line though, is that I can’t please everyone. The blog needs an update, if that alienates .013% of visitors, then I’m sorry to see them go, but pleasing them could very well be turning off a larger number of visitors.
I like the look of your revised blog look. Couldn’t leave a comment on FB, so thought I’d come back here. I like the design.
Love the new color combo and the font for the title. I like the clean lines with the more organic wood background. Not sure about the header image. I’ve been seeing the skyline with sun rays images for a while now and they are already starting to look tired. Also it makes me think you are in NY. Then again, you can always change it when you tire of it.
And hope your Thanksgiving was fab.
Kat–It’s the LA skyline!
Thanks for the feedback, I’ll take what you said into consideration. Don’t want to be a cliche!
Hello , it is Thanksgiving Day! I’m happy with my extra day off, and I am planning to make something fun that will probably involve a car trip and seeing something new in Wilmington I haven’t seen yet.
You write new post at Thanksgiving?
Weider Isidro — I write almost all of my blog posts a week ahead of time and then schedule them to be posted. So I didn’t spend my Thanksgiving writing posts, don’t worry!