Hey Everyone!
If you’re celebrating Thanksgiving, I hope you’re having a great day! If you’re not celebrating Thanksgiving, I hope you’re having a great day, also! 😉
Here’s a little something from Il Volo…with an assist from Gianluca for retweeting. I can’t easily put this on the calendar, and since some dates start today, I didn’t want you guys to miss it.
http://www.thegrovela.com/event_promo.php?id_promo=1184
Kelly
Hey, Everyone.
As you’ve already noticed, we made another change to the website, but we think this will be better. It seems like having the homepage confused a lot of people about how to get to the blog, and we lost several loyal readers and commenters along the way. We never meant to; we thought that helping individually with emails would work while everyone got used to the new look and function. But, we are still missing some people and have read comments about feeling left out, so we decided to try to put some things back to the way they were.
That meant making the blog front and center, so we took the homepage down. It isn’t gone, but it’s a separate page on the left hand side of the screen, “Introducing ilvoloflightcrw.com.”
We also wanted to clarify how to use the blog since this one looks a little different than the other, and there seems to be some confusion with that as well.
1.) When you come onto the site, you see the blog now. 
2.) Scroll up and down to read the posts that you wish. To comment, you can do 1 of 2 things:
* Click on the Dialog Bubble at the top of the post 
* Or click on the title of the post (which is the same as in the old blog) 
3.) Those options open up the post for commenting which is on the bottom, as the old blog. 
4.) To easily move from post to post after commenting, use the left and right arrows at the bottom of the post 
5.) Links to videos and other pages/stories we didn’t want to lose are on the left. When you hover over the link, you will get a drop down menu. Slide your mouse over to the link you want, and then click the link
6.) To do a keyword search, use a word from the title of the post you’re looking for in this box: 
I think that is everything we received questions about. The links on the right under, “Topics” are links that you click on. The calendar is a rolling calendar that doesn’t allow any navigation. It shows about 10 dates at a time with the oldest dates falling off as they pass, just like on the old blog.
I know a lot of people miss Elizabeth’s art, and I’m working on that. The problem right now is that when I load the background, it washes everything else out, rendering the site unusable. I’ve reached out to some people, and I have found that the problem is probably in the way that the style sheets are programed to lay, and to manipulate that programming takes skill beyond mine. I am working on finding someone who can help me do this, and hopefully, that will fix the problem.
I hope this helps. Please let someone know if it doesn’t.
Kelly
Hey, Everybody!
Well, what do you think? Welcome to our new website, ilvoloflightcrw.com!!!
That’s right! The Flight Crew is more than a simple blog. We are our own domain with a more traditional web address: ilvoloflightcrw.com.
As Marie has mentioned before, we board members spend a lot of time discussing the site, its day-to-day issues and its future, and it seemed like a perfect time to make this change. We are growing by leaps and bounds. We can be found easily on all the major search engines on the internet, are up to over 100 followers of the blog, nearly 150 followers on twitter and adding more everyday. We finished at number five on the Top Ten Supporters of Il Volo last week (how awesome is that? :D), and when we talked about our ideas about what we wanted to do with the blog…what kinds of upgrades we wanted to make…everything lined up to say it was time.
OK. So, I know everything looks very different, and you might be wondering how this is going to affect the function of the blog. Not much, really. The only difference is that when you come to the site for the first time (specifically if you don’t get e-mail notifications when a new post is published), you will see our new homepage. On the left side of the page are the navigation links to the main parts of the site, and one of the first ones is, “Blog.” Click on it, it will bring you here, and you will be able to read and comment as usual. We’ve also added a “search” feature, so you can do keyword searches of what you’re looking for instead of wandering around trying to find it.
Please spend some time on the homepage and see how you like it. Don’t be afraid to push buttons just to see what happens; that’s what I did when I was “building” it. 😀 Thank you, wordpress.com, for making it so easy! As always, we love to hear your comments!
One thing I would like to say before I leave. My friend, Lisa Brehm, is the wonderful person who provided the beautiful video for us. One of her hobbies is making fan videos of soap operas, and I sent my little project to her–all the way down in Texas–for critiquing and advise. Being the caring person that she is, she offered to spend her own time and use her own resources to do this simply because, “That’s what friends do. We help each other out.” We hope you like it, and please show her some appreciation here in your comments. I invited her to come today (she isn’t a fan like we are, but knows extraordinary talent when she hears it 😉 ) to see the finished project, and she would be touched to see any feedback.
So, Happy Sunday! We hope you will continue to enjoy yourself here at ilvoloflightcrw.com!
Kelly
Hey, Everyone!
I know it doesn’t look like much has been happening, but it has been a busy week for our board members, and the major changes are finished! There will be minor ones coming as we continue to grow and evolve, but the major ones that we are excited about are complete. We plan to Go Live with them tomorrow morning, so come back bright and early! 😉
We hope you’ll be as excite as we are and are looking forward to new things to come!
Kelly
