13 Oct
Housekeeping - Some New Features
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Hey everyone, I have done a tiny bit of housekeeping here on Brown Eyed Baker and wanted to share some of the new features with you. Nothing earth shattering, but a few changes that I hope will improve your experience when you come to visit! 
If you check out my category listings to the right you’ll see some changes, which are most notably around all of the bread here on the blog. I now have separate categories for Quick Breads, which includes muffins and scones, and Yeast Breads, which also includes other baked goods that use yeast such as bagels, cinnamon rolls, and the like. While yeast rolls will still be cross referenced in Yeast Breads, I also have a separate category broken out for rolls and biscuits. I hope that this new break out of categories makes browsing easier and you all have an easier time finding what you’re looking for!
At the end of each post is now a button that will enable you to share and bookmark the content found in the blog. The button looks like this:
When you click it a menu will come up that will give you a whole host of choices - you can bookmark that post, email it to a friend, or share it on a variety of social networking sites such as Digg, StumbleUpon, Facebook, MySpace, and others.
If you are a member of Facebook, you can now join the Brown Eyed Baker page and receive updates, view photos, and take part in discussions about what you like and don’t like about the blog, how I can make improvements, and connect with other readers. Click Here to go to the Brown Eyed Baker page and click “Become a Fan”.
Finally, I have created a photostream on Flickr, which you can view here. If you just looooove my pictures (hey, they’re improving!) you can subscribe to the photostream so you are alterted whenever a new photo is uploaded.
Thanks for stopping by, I hope you all find the changes useful and exciting.
Happy Monday!
30 Sep
Who wants some Martha love?
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Perhaps the better question would be, who DOESN’T want some Martha love? Recently Martha did a show completely dedicated to blogging, which featured the well-known Smitten Kitchen and even Perez Hilton! Martha maintains her own blog, The Martha Blog, and is looking to network with other bloggers. Head on over to the blog post on blogging and leave her a comment, and then link back to her on your own blog, and you might just get an invitation to join Martha’s Circle! How exciting!
15 Jul
New Feature: Printer-Friendly Posts!
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I am excited to announce an enhancement that I think everyone will find great use for. You are now able to print off any of my blog posts in a printer-friendly format. No more lugging your laptop into the kitchen and getting flour and crumbs into all the little crevices. I, personally, have no idea what that’s like ::wink, wink::
Now a quick tutorial on how to print (it’s really not hard, you just press a button, but tutorial sounds very cool, don’t ya think?):
When you click on an individual blog post you will see at the top of the post, right underneath the post header, a little printer icon with the link “Print this post”:
Once you click the link to print you will see a preview of the printer-friendly text you are about to print, which looks like this:
To print, just scroll down to the bottom of that page, and click the link to print:
I hope you all enjoy the new functionality! If there is anything you’d like to see on the blog that currently isn’t available please leave me a comment or shoot me an email and I’ll look into it!
13 Jul
Welcome to Brown Eyed Baker!!
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Welcome, everyone, to my new space! I hope that you enjoy my blog, the new look, and the new name! Here you will find the same content that you came to love at Sugar & Spice, with hopefully even more content and pictures, as well as helpful advice and tips as you navigate the kitchen waters.
If you had previously subscribed to posts via email (you receive all new blog posts in your email inbox), please be sure to use the box to the right to subscribe to the new site!
RSS readers, whether you use Google Reader or another site, use the buttons below to easily update your reader with a subscription to Brown Eyed Baker:
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Also, if you have linked to my blog in the form of a blogroll or somewhere on your own website, please be sure to update the link with my new blog!
Now that you’re all settled in, spend some time poking around the site and let me know what you think! There’s a brand new About page, as well as a big list (My 100) of all of the culinary conquests I hope to make by the end of 2009, a peek at which cookbooks I keep on my shelf, as well as those I hope to acquire. You’ll also notice My Store, which links to an Amazon store full of recommendations, my favorite kitchen tools, and the ability to browse through many things kitchen, food, and home related.
