Blog Refresh, Email Subscription Update

I am one who thrives on organization. When Blogger announced it was eliminating Feedburner as its email subscription service in July, I knew I needed to do something before the rush. 

I am a stubborn control-freak, with a bit of obsessive compulsive behavior as seasoning to my personality. I have lots of blogging friends who do this blogging thing for hobby income, full-time income and, to a lesser extent, friends who do it for fun or as a personal journal (like me). I've always plodded along doing my own thing since 2013, learning along the way. I found my way through templates, adding photos, noreply-comment, headers, subheadings, gadgets on the sidebar, privacy policy with GDPR (general data protection regulation), etc. 

I have a wonderful blogging friend in Linda Primmer of the blog, Life and Linda. She is also one of my Traveling Tote tribe. Besides blogging, gardening, and tablescaping, another of her many talents is her tech savvy ability, particularly with blogging design and mechanics. She is also known as My Fairy Blogmother. She offered to spruce up my blog a few years back and I declined, resisting throwing any money into my blog. Until now. 

When this email subscription change within Blogger came up, I knew it would be a pain in the you-know-what to learn and convert to another email service. For those unaware, Feedburner is going into maintenance mode July 2021, which basically means they're ghosting us. Linda wrote a post to help bloggers who prefer self-service like me. I started on it, exporting my email list and even scrubbed it of invalid emails (there were a lot of those!). Linda's post helped immensely, but I had to ask myself the cost/benefit of beating my head against the wall to learn and overcome this newest challenge. I threw in the towel, rolled my change, and asked Linda for help.

So, without further ado, what you now see as my header today is my new blog refresh. It incorporates my inner Flapper girl living in an Art Deco world [building], keeping course with my view of select topics, attempting to live up to the dictionary definition of Panoply - "a wide-ranging and impressive array".

The main change, though, is the email subscription and corresponding gadget on the sidebar. If you were already signed up to receive my new post notifications through Feedburner, nothing else needs to be done - your email signup was imported into Mailchimp. If you are not receiving my post updates through email subscription and would like to (and I would love for you to), you can go that sidebar photo where you see the blanks like the one pictured below. 

See the sidebar gadget on the right that looks like the photo below. Complete the two lines and then hit SUBSCRIBE. 

Next, an image like the one below should appear with your information you typed in. Hit SUBSCRIBE again and you will be signed up for any new posts!

As before, I would never sell your information gathered. Mailchimp gathers your information, and you can read about my privacy policy here which also includes a link to Mailchimp's privacy policy. My privacy policy is also an item on my menu bar just below my header for visibility at all times when visiting my blog.  

I would highly recommend you reaching out to Linda if you want help with your blog. Linda, thank you for taking the bulk of my headache away. It was just a tension headache that lasted the few hours while consulting with you (well, okay, into that night as my mind was racing, too), instead of two or three days that I know it would have been otherwise.😉

Rita C. at Panoply

Parties I Share With: Pieced Pastimes, Love Your Creativity, BNOTP, All About Home Common Ground, All About Home Follow the Yellow Brick Home, Apple Street Cottage, Grandma Ideas,  A Stroll Thru Life, My Wee Abode, Thistle Key Lane, Bluesky at Home, Zucchini Sisters, French Ethereal SYS, Katherine's Corner TFT, Grace at Home, My Thrift Store Addiction, Our Hopeful Home, Karin's Kottage Centerpiece Wednesday, My Hubbard Home FWF, Let's Add Sprinkle Keep in Touch, County Road 407 Farmhouse Friday