The Disappearing Blog Trick

It is inevitable that “what can go wrong, will”. At least, that’s what my mama always told me.

It’s painful to wake up one day and discover that your ‘baby’ – the project you have poured yourself in to for so many years – is gone. That’s exactly what happened to the Post on one December morning in late 2009. We were thankful that the Blog Awards had ended by the time this ‘crash’ happened, but it is never a good time to find out your data and photos for over 4 years are possibly gone forever.

It took quite a while to get through to our web host, to find a good backup of our data, to find someone who was capable of the delicate work of extracting it, and to transfer to our new ‘digs’. All of our authors were busy with Christmas, New Years, family events, birthdays, blog-designing, traveling, and conferences. The ones who weren’t were unable to help with the back-end work, so they offered moral support… and poignant reminders of the pending doom that awaited if we didn’t get busy working on the ‘remodel’ and ‘recovery’.

And then BlogHer closed down our ads on the sidebar.

And the site sat silently as a reminder of our dismal digital failure.

And the days passed while half our team prepared for travel to Tennessee to attend the Blissdom conference.

But now we are back.

And we’re hoping that YOU haven’t given up on all of us, or the Post.

Just to let you know how much we love you all – and our SPONSORS that donated such wonderful prizes for the awards last fall – we’re going to be working very hard at purdifying this site and making sure that everyone (readers, authors, and sponsors alike) gets some TLC.

Be watching… things are going to get snazzy. New faces are going to pop up. Surprises await.

Thanks for sticking the silence out, friends.

Yours truly,