Jen Groetzinger

Welcome to my shiny new blogsite! This has been a loooong time coming. After around a year of toying around with mock-ups, sad attempts at coding and cringing at my old flash site, I decided to take a look into my other options. I could hire someone but with our new house and all of the projects we had going, that just wasn’t in the cards. Plus, I’m probably the worst kind of client — not exactly sure of what it is I’m looking for but very very picky. So on I went…

When I was looking for a new way to do my site a few things were very important to me: making sure my old blog posts weren’t lost (I don’t have a whole lot of SEO built up but I didn’t want to lose what I have) so it had to work with WordPress, the existing templates had to look and feel modern and clean and I had to be able to edit anything and everything I wanted — I didn’t want to run into a situation where I was left there sitting and thinking “I really love this buuuuut….”

And so, after a ton of searching, a lot of reading (thanks dwf!) and weeks of weighing options, I finally found an interface I was happy with: ProPhoto. I could go on and on about how amazing the experience has been…. Yes, I’ve spent my share of all-nighters and yes, I’ve had a couple of bumps along the way but it was all SO worth it. With ProPhoto, I’m able to make all of my site changes right in my WordPress page and it’s all pretty straight-forward. When I did have problems or questions I just went to their support page full of tons of tutorials where most of my questions were answered. When I had a question I couldn’t find the answer to earlier today – I sent them a message (not really expecting much of a reply) and was answered within an hour (even though they warned it might take 17 hours)!

I’ve spent many, many hours pulling this together (a lot of that time was spent on branding and tweaking the galleries) and so far, I haven’t had to do any coding whatsoever – which makes me very, very happy.

The coolest part about all of this? I could change the “theme” and overall look in no time which definitely appeals to that picky customer side of me.

SO – here it is guys! Take a look around and let me know what you think! It’s still a work in progress so if you see things moving around a bit, don’t be shocked. But if you run into any problems, please let me know!

Cheers!