What's New, Copycat?

After Thanksgiving, I was playing catch-up with my blog reading, and I came across a post from Greta about her new and improved website.  I was inspired!  (And I use Weebly, so it made that much more inviting).

Because I was supposed to be doing something else altogether, I thought it would be a good idea to go ahead and explore this new setup that Greta had and see if I could apply it to my own website.  Three hours later ... here we are.

I liked the pushy-outy things moving parts on Greta's sidebar, so in order to have that feature I had to change my basic template, so my website also has a whole new look.  It's much cleaner and easier to navigate, I think.

I only have 4 people on my site right now, but I'm finding out that it's easier to put their stories on my website than I thought.  The only one I have sourced and documented the "new" way is my great grandfather, Louis Phelisa Lanctot.  Instead of having a separate link to each source and each source linking to an image, I put each source and image on the same page.  It's one less step, which makes the process go a little faster.

Then the image pops out to full-size:

It will take a while to update the other three that were already there, but once I get that done and start putting all my other ancestors on the website, the cousins should start practically jumping into my boat, right?


Disclaimer: Neither Weebly nor Greta paid me to write this post.  I already had a Weebly site and domain, and Greta just happened to have some pretty awesome ideas that I decided to steal emulate!