{"id":3239,"date":"2012-01-04T10:31:32","date_gmt":"2012-01-04T17:31:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nettiesworld.com\/?p=3239"},"modified":"2017-06-28T23:15:10","modified_gmt":"2017-06-29T06:15:10","slug":"new-year-new-design-new-features-at-netties-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/old.adoptedjoy.com\/?p=3239","title":{"rendered":"New Year, New Design, &#038; New Features at Nettie&#8217;s World"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m happy to be ringing in the new year with some upgrades here at Nettie&#8217;s World.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve reworked the design and changed the font, and I&#8217;m pretty happy with it &#8211; seems crisper to me.\u00a0 I also added some new features to my sidebar.\u00a0 My favorite of those is that I&#8217;ve finally gotten my blogroll going!\u00a0 I&#8217;m a big fan of so many great blogs, there are literally more than I can keep up with, and I&#8217;m always finding more.\u00a0 So many great writers, thinkers, and PEOPLE out there in the blogging world!!<\/p>\n<p>And I want to share them with everyone (because that&#8217;s what you do when you like something &#8211; you share it!).\u00a0 So I&#8217;ll be posting links from time to time and encouraging everyone to go take a look-see, and I&#8217;ll start right now.<\/p>\n<p>First, a couple of <strong>Autism<\/strong> related blogs:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"From diagnosis onward, blogging our Asperger\u2019s journey\" href=\"http:\/\/nettieheidmann.autisable.com\/\" rel=\"me\" target=\"_blank\">Our Fascinating Journey With Asperger&#8217;s Syndrome<\/a><br \/>\nThis is my blog over on Autisable, the autism blogging community in the Xangaverse.\u00a0 I started this just after Jacob&#8217;s diagnosis.<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Help for taking a child from PDD-NOS to Asperger\u2019s to an A student in college and beyond\" href=\"http:\/\/asd2mom.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Raising Asperger&#8217;s Kids<\/a><br \/>\nElise has been a mentor for many as she shares all that she has learned raising two sons with Asperger&#8217;s.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Next is my <strong>Catholic<\/strong> blog category, and it&#8217;s impossible to prioritize them by &#8220;top 5&#8221; or even &#8220;top 10&#8221; &#8212; so I&#8217;ll just stick with linking them alphabetically.\u00a0 There are all kinds of blogs here &#8211; clergy, homeschooling moms, apologists, culinary artists, philosophers&#8230; something for everyone!\u00a0 Here&#8217;s<strong> # through I<\/strong> for starters:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"Sarah Faith Hodges\" href=\"http:\/\/44socksontheline.wordpress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">44 Socks on the Line\u2026 and other absurdities<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Mrs. O, Catholic homeschooling mother and wife\" href=\"http:\/\/opey124.wordpress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">A Fine Mess<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"I\u2019m a Catholic mom trying to live her vocation in accordance with God\u2019s will, with Mary as my \u201cstar of hope\u201d and inspiration.\" href=\"http:\/\/a-star-of-hope.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">A Star of Hope<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Brent Stubbs \u2026 Why I\u2019m Catholic and other things about that\" href=\"http:\/\/www.almostnotcatholic.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Almost Not Catholic<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Celebrating the beauty and grace of Catholic faith and life\" href=\"http:\/\/amongwomenpodcast.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Among Women<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair. \u2013 Chesterton\" href=\"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/badcatholic\/\" target=\"_blank\">Bad Catholic<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Catholic wife and homeschooling mom of seven\" href=\"http:\/\/berkshirecottage.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Berkshire Cottage<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Barbara\u2019s recipes\" href=\"http:\/\/blessusolord.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Bless Us O Lord\u2026<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Reformation Meets Rome\" href=\"http:\/\/www.calledtocommunion.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Called To Communion<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Cardinal Se\u00e1n shares his reflections and experiences.\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cardinalseansblog.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Cardinal Se\u00e1n&#8217;s Blog<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Mark Shea\u2019s Blog: So That No Thought of Mine, No Matter How Stupid, Should Ever Go Unpublished Again!\" href=\"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/\" target=\"_blank\">Catholic and Enjoying It!<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Recipes for celebrating the feasts and seasons of the liturgical year\" href=\"http:\/\/catholiccuisine.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Catholic Cuisine<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Loving Jesus, the Blessed Mother, the Church, and her family\" href=\"http:\/\/catholic-kara.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Catholic Kara<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Writings from the heart about my experiences as a Catholic in a secular world\" href=\"http:\/\/catholicmominnh.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Catholic Mom in NH<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"A community listing of Catholic bloggers who are mothers \u2013 whether that be in the present, in your plans in the future, through being a godmother, or those who are mothers at heart.\" href=\"http:\/\/www.catholicmothersonline.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Catholic Mothers Online<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"My spiritual journey as it relates to mothering my children and being a wife and family member.\" href=\"http:\/\/circlingjericho.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Circling Jericho<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Jennifer Fulwiler, former Atheist and convert to Catholicism\" href=\"http:\/\/www.conversiondiary.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Conversion Diary<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"One guy\u2019s journey to the Catholic Church\" href=\"http:\/\/www.convertjournal.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Convert Journal<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Homeschooling mom to three beautiful girls and wife of a superhero.\" href=\"http:\/\/crunchycountrycatholic.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Crunchy Country Catholic<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Meghann Harden\" href=\"http:\/\/jmhardens060703.xanga.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Extra Ecclesiam Nulla Salus<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Slavishly accurate liturgical translations &amp; frank commentary on Catholic issues \u2013 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf o{]:\u00ac)\" href=\"http:\/\/wdtprs.com\/blog\/\" target=\"_blank\">Fr. Z&#8217;s Blog \u2013 What Does The Prayer Really Say?<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Dayna, Catholic mother of seven, four adopted.\" href=\"http:\/\/headoptedmefirst.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">HE Adopted Me First<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Simcha Fisher\u2019s blog\" href=\"http:\/\/simchafisher.wordpress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">I Have to Sit Down<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Anne Bender\" href=\"http:\/\/annebender.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Imprisoned In My Bones<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Reflections and tales of a Catholic stay-at-home mom\" href=\"http:\/\/annebender.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">It&#8217;s On My To-Do List<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p title=\"Serving up a variety of musings about life, humor, books, food, and more\">And here is a potpourri of fabulosity covering a range of topics from mothering multiples to education, crafts, nutrition, the arts, etc. that I describe simply as <strong>Excellent Blogs<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"Serving up a variety of musings about life, humor, books, food, and more\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.angiebrennan.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Angie&#8217;s Blog<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Lucy in Northern England and her fanciful crochet art\" href=\"http:\/\/attic24.typepad.com\/weblog\/\" target=\"_blank\">Attic 24<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Beth\u2019s Blog\" href=\"http:\/\/bethro78.xanga.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Beth Goodrich<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Supporting Home Education\" href=\"http:\/\/buehlereducation.com\/\">Buehler Education<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Claire Schrader\" href=\"http:\/\/clairescalicocorner.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Claire&#8217;s Calico Corner<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"A diary of ruminations and happenings of an arts pastor who never wanted to be a pastor and never thought he could be an artist.\" href=\"http:\/\/artspastor.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Diary of an Arts Pastor<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Nourishing my family, helping you to nourish yours! I get my motor going discussing my ten kids, nourishing food, and depression-green living. Come along for the ride\u2026\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dyno-mom.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Dyno-Mom<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Painting in the Catholic Tradition\" href=\"http:\/\/gwynethholston.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Gwyneth Holston<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"I love making something that lasts longer than dishes stay clean and laundry stays folded.\" href=\"http:\/\/knitoneblogtwo.wordpress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Knit One, Blog Two<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"The endless rollercoaster ride to publication\" href=\"http:\/\/lindaburklin.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Linda Burklin, Scribe<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Pt\u00e1\u010dek\" href=\"http:\/\/taekwondo93.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Little Bird<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Carol Bakker\u2019s blog\" href=\"http:\/\/magistramater.xanga.com\/weblog\/\" target=\"_blank\">Magistra Mater<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Confessions of a Home Schooling Mother of Seven\" href=\"http:\/\/mamamentor.xanga.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Mama Mentor&#8217;s Menagerie<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Primal Living in the Modern World\" href=\"http:\/\/reginacoelicreations.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Mark&#8217;s Daily Apple<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Linda Burklin\u2019s photoblog\" href=\"http:\/\/outandin.wordpress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Outandin&#8217;s Blog<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"The down and dirty about what happens inside the Pederson home. It is a glorious thing.\" href=\"http:\/\/pedersonsdirtydozen.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Pederson&#8217;s Dirty Dozen<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Homeschooling, farming mother of six\" href=\"http:\/\/perelandra30.xanga.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Perelandra30<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Lesley is \u201ca loose cannon, a rebel, a non-conformist, a free spirit, a true friend, a fun-killer, and a good mom.\u201d  And a writer.\" href=\"http:\/\/philippiansthree14.xanga.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Philippians 3:14<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Health, Nutrition, Cooking, Wellness, and Fitness\" href=\"http:\/\/feedmepaleo.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Primal Mama Cooks\u2026 and Dishes on Life<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I&#8217;ll be featuring more in the coming days, but don&#8217;t limit yourself, check out the entire list over on the right.\u00a0 And <strong>MOST IMPORTANTLY<\/strong>:\u00a0<em> if I&#8217;ve missed something you KNOW I should have included, <strong>or<\/strong>, if you know me, and I know you, and yet for some reason only explicable by virtue of having &#8220;dropped me brain&#8221; your blog is not on my list, leave me the link in a comment so that I can do a dramatic forehead slap and add you in where you belong!!\u00a0<strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"> I don&#8217;t want to miss anyone!!<\/span> \ud83d\ude42<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m happy to be ringing in the new year with some upgrades here at Nettie&#8217;s World.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve reworked the design and changed the font, and I&#8217;m pretty happy with it &#8211; seems crisper to me.\u00a0 I also added some new features to my sidebar.\u00a0 My favorite of those is that I&#8217;ve finally gotten my blogroll [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,598],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-administrative","category-netties-world","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.adoptedjoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.adoptedjoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.adoptedjoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.adoptedjoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.adoptedjoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3239"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/old.adoptedjoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3239\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3240,"href":"https:\/\/old.adoptedjoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3239\/revisions\/3240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.adoptedjoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.adoptedjoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.adoptedjoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}