I haven’t read my feeds for a couple of weeks and look what happens! I was looking for a post I know I’ve seen somewhere and I wasn’t sure if I was in the right place.

(Apologies to all the comments before mine that I didn’t read. I hate commenting and running, but gotta do it this morning.)

Great work Vivien!

Isabella, I hope you’ll find out why Akismet ‘loves’ you so much that eats most of your comments.
Thanks a lot for the praise.

As for the business on the home page: from one side I wanted to give more pointers to the readers, especially the new ones, and encourage them to read some of the old posts and explore more of what was published on Inspiration Bit. From the other side, I don’t want to overwhelm them with too much information, so I’m constantly tweaking this site and think of the ways to improve its usability. (I’m not displaying archives, or list of categories here, just some selected posts…)

I just changed the number of selected posts on the home page from 8 to 4. Initially, I wanted to stick to as many ‘eights’ as possible, but looks like I’ll have to compromise on that number once in a while.
So there are only 12 selected bits now ( 4 posts per section) on the home page, however I’ve kept 8 posts per section on all other pages.
I’ve also increased spacing between the selected posts, changed the number’s alignment, and slightly reduced the excerpt’s font-size, but kept a big size for the title.

Let me know, please, if it makes the homepage look less busy?

i personally am not a fan of the new wave of putting just about everything on the first page – too busy for me – that’s my only complaint.

sorry it took me so long to say something!

And like Lauren, I love your purple Hyacinth photo. Do you think you could find it in your files in bigger size, so that I can use it on iBit as a background image on the left? Currently you have it on Flickr as 399 x 600, and I need it to be something like 600×800px? If you could email it to me, or post on Flickr, that would be great. Thanks so much.

I dug through my collection and I found a few with both green and purple together:

http://flickr.com/photos/brianauer/2606942921/
http://flickr.com/photos/brianauer/467643981/
http://flickr.com/photos/brianauer/2302667023/
http://flickr.com/photos/brianauer/2302665329/

If you’re looking for green OR purple, you could search my Flickr stream for those keywords.

ALSO… you should check out this site I found a little while back:

http://labs.ideeinc.com/multicolr

It searches the Creative Commons on Flickr based on the actual colors found in the photo, rather than tags or descriptions. You can also do multiple colors, so you could find images with both of your colors together:

http://labs.ideeinc.com/multic.....a4c,742db8;

LOL, it looks like most of the images for purple and green are flowers… go figure.

As for the image, I think an image will definitely work however I think maybe not full black… it is very distracting but the effect is great, don’t get me wrong.

Look forward to your small tweaks after you dissect everyone’s suggestions.