Hello Embroidery Community,

I wanted to write to let you know of a couple of updates I’ve made to the blog framework. The first is the addition of the “ShareThis” button and the second (and the one that’s going to annoy those of you who are linking the blog) is the addition of “pretty permalinks.”

The “ShareThis” tool is a social-network aggregator that will allow you to add or send links to your favorite bookmarking site, social network, AIM, SMS, email, etc., etc.. I find it really useful and an elegant alternative to a giant list of buttons that would do the same thing.

The “pretty permalinks” change is a more intuitive and human-readable way of dealing with the permanent links for individual posts. The drawback is that it has changed the permanent URL for all of the 300 some odd archived posts. This means (sorry) that for those of you who have bookmarked individual posts, or have links to individual posts on your sites and blogs, that you will have to change those URLs.

There are many more changes and refinements to come over time. For instance, thanks to the gracious help of Alison Smith, we think we have finally fixed the issues with Internet Exploder er, Explorer. We are also going to upgrade the blog to the most recent version of WordPress in the near future.

Hopefully future upgrades will have minimal, if any, impact on you, except for making your experience more useful and enjoyable. I apologize for the hassle, but please do update your links.

Best
–R.