Welcome to the new look of Peanut Butter Fingers! I am so excited about this redesign and though it’s still not 100 percent done, I am thrilled to unveil the new look to you guys today!
I began blogging in September 2009 and throughout the past four years, Peanut Butter Fingers has changed design only a small handful of times.
When I first started blogging, I set up my site using a free WordPress template and a banner I designed myself in Microsoft Paint. (You can see my tips for setting up your own blog in this post: How to Start a Blog, Blog Focus, Self Hosting and More.)
Does anyone out there remember the peanut butter cookie banner!?
Or the creamy peanut butter banner?
Clearly I needed some serious help in the blog design department, but I waited to reach out to a real designer until I was pretty sure that this whole blogging thing might stick.
I fell in love with blogging pretty fast, but still didn’t feel comfortable investing money into a redesign until 2010 when the design you’ve seen on PBF for the past three years was created by Emily White (formerly known as The Blog Fairy).
I loved this look when it was first installed and thought it captured the fun-loving and lighthearted nature of this blog.
Fast forward a few years and I began to feel a little restless and wanted a change. I wanted a cleaner look with more white space, easy navigation, a fun yet slightly more sophisticated font and social media icons that matched.
I owe the BIGGEST thank you to Kendra of Swoon Creative who is the designer behind the new look of Peanut Butter Fingers.
Over the past few months, Kendra and I worked together to create the look you see today. I gave her a lot of feedback, sent her examples of colors, fonts and websites I love and she used her incredible talent and creativity to create the new design.
I have so many fabulous things to say about Kendra but her initiative is something I must highlight. She came up with so many fun new ideas and surprised me more than a few times with various features. She took my feedback to heart, installed the design for me tonight (and didn’t bat an eye as we exchanged emails for hours!) and deserves more praise than I can send her way. I cannot recommend her services enough!
I hope you guys love the new look of Peanut Butter Fingers as much as I do. Again, it’s not entirely finished, as I have a few fun features I hope to install, but I am excited for this change.
Thank you, as always, for joining me on this journey!
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Wow!! LOVE the design. Cute yet sophisticated 😀
Love the blog redesign! I just started my blog and got tons of helpful info for creating my site from your Blog Talk Tuesday series. Thanks for the help 😉
Love the new look of your bog. Congratulations!
Congrats on the new look! I love it. It’s sophisticated and sleek. 🙂
It looks AMAZING! I am looking into options for a blog redesign too so I’ll have to contact Kendra.
It looks great! I love that it’s easy to navigate
LOVE the new look! It’s perfect! 🙂
It looks great, Julie!
love the new design!
Absolutely love the new layout!! Very clean and sophisticated, but still very fun and cute!
I love the script at the top!! Good change.
Love the new look…very elegant.
Love the new look…very elegant.
Super cute!! Love it!
LOVE. IT! Seriously it looks great—very simple and clean. Nice work!
Love the new look! So stylish & cute!
Clean & Simple.. Looks Beautiful Julie!! 🙂
The redesign looks very classy!
(I will say the photos/avatars of the commenters are showing up pretty gigantic for me…not sure if it’s just me 😉 )
On my screen the left hand side, it’s like it’s too far over…???….too big for my screen….I don’t know how to describe it….I can’t go any farther to the left like I can to the right….but on the left it is cutting off first letters, part of letters along that side….????…..
It’s like that for me as well. Left-hand side is jammed right up against edge of my iPad.
It might be me but I can’t comment unless I open the comments and then scroll down to the comment box. Your comments are at the top of the Blog and i had a hard time finding them.
Agree. Nowhere to comment. Also find the pale green highlighted items are very pale and hard to see. Nice change though.
I love it! So sleek!
It’s beautiful! I love the fonts you chose. They look sophisticated and fun, but they’re still easy to read.
Yayyyy!!! LOL, I was wondering if you were going to do this soon for some reason, and you sure did! 😉 I love it because it’s super clean, and love the colors on it. I thought I was at the wrong blog–so weird whenever that happens, haha.
Loving the new layout! Looks so clean and simple, but really nice touches (font is gorg!)
Oh wow, I LOVE the new design! So much cleaner and I love the sophisticated simplicity. Great choice!
I also look forward to checking out those links – as a newish blogger, I want all the advice I can get!
Hi Julie! I love the new design! One thing though, the light blue font for links and commenter’s names is a little hard to read. But other than that, I really like it!
Looks awesome!
omg the redesign looks AMAZING, Julie!!! LOVE IT!
The new design looks so classy and beautiful, Kendra did a great job!
Love the new design!
JULIE! Love the new look…..it fits your style perfectly and it looks so fresh!
OMG I love it! I’m in the works with a designer doing my first professional design! I can’t wait!
I love the new design Julie! Looks fantastic. I’ve shared your blog with SO MANY family and friends it’s obnoxious 🙂 We really enjoy your posts! You’ve even inspired me to blog. Still working on getting it up and running!
Bianca
It looks great! I definitely need a blog facelift. Thanks for sharing Swoon Creative
Such a nice new layout! It is so clean and fresh. I just started a blog and right now just went with one of the templates and customized it a little. Thanks for all of your blog tips!
I love the new design! It looks simple and cleaner. yay!
Congrats on the new look! I really like it 🙂
Love the new blog design, very chic!
Love live love it!!
New design is very nice! Great!!
Wow the new look is FANTASTIC! So fresh and so clean clean!
I absolutely love it! Looks super classy and love the color palette!
Very fresh brand, Julie!
Love the new look!
Wooow Julie it’s amazing!!! I really love the new design.
Keep posting because we read you from Spain and it is probably one of the best blogs on Internet.
I’m just catching up on my blog reading, but I’m LOVING the new look! It’s very classy looking, yet remains fun. Perfect!
Looks fabulous, Julie!
I love it! I need a cleaner look to my blog, but I’m not at the point where I need to invest as I don’t quite have a following, ha.
I LOVE it! It looks absolutely amazing & it is definitely a look I want to strive for. Love the clean and fresh look. =)
Congrats on the new design! It looks great, much more professional and sophisticated.
-AJ