Hope you are having a wonderful start to the weekend! We’ve got some family fun and a hospital tour this weekend! It’s Easter!
The top fives for this week…
Here’s a place we like to go for happy hour every once in a while. It’s called Brick and Mortar and it’s in the slightly less touristy part of Santa Monica on Main Street. This particular restaurant is off the main street, kind of hidden.
Yep, parmesan fries and a beet salad plus pizza. An acupuncturist’s dinner. Totally. You’ve GOT to live a little. 
The other 4 of the week were the responses to the survey!!
Thank you again for taking the time!
1. Here is how responders rated their post interest from MOST Favorite to Least Interested:
- Personal/Lifestyle
- Happiness/Relationships
- Acupuncture/Health
- Baby/Motherhood
- Food/Recipes
- Money
I would love to do more personal/lifestyle posts. These posts are easy and fun. I’m trying to improve my photography and I’m getting more comfortable with being more open. Thanks!
The rest of the category interest levels will help me to look at the percentages of posts I do in those categories.
2. Layout Design:
a. A few people suggested that it would be easier if I did a full post layout on the main page so you don’t have to click on the post of the day to read it. I really like this idea and I’m going to work on it. I do my own programming/layout nowadays so this may take a bit. 🙂
b. Some people find the mobile site difficult to navigate. It is set to be a site where you have to minimize/maximize on a mobile device. You have to do that pinch thing with your fingers to navigate the site.
The benefit of this is that the layout on a computer will show up EXACTLY the same on any mobile device (with minimizing or maximizing). The drawback is the extra step needed to make it readable on a smaller device. Sometimes mobile site programming looks different than the site on a computer. The benefit here is that it’s made to have posts easily read on a mobile device even if it looks a little different.
Again, now that I’m on my own for programming, I’m going to look into easier ways to make this mobile and I may have to hire some help. Great feedback! I want to make it easy.
3. More sharable posts:
OK, I am so glad you let me know that it wasn’t clear that the images were even pinnable. I added the white overlay and a new Pin It button for images. I hope you like it and encourage you to pin!
I am working on making more pinnable content layouts for the future: recipes, acupuncture, health etc.
4. LOVED seeing your favorite blogs and I’m checking them all out.
Although I addressed the most commented features on the survey here, I absolutely read all the feedback, took it to heart and I am going to continue to tidy up the site.
Have a lovely weekend!!! Thank you for stopping by! Linking up with The lovely Lauren Elizabeth!
Bethany C says
Ahh I’ve been blog-land absent for over a week and missed the survey, I guess! However, I do agree that I love the lifestyle posts! And that food.. I do not normal get excited about food pictures, but I want that salad now!
Christina Warren says
Oh good! So glad you like them! I love taking photos and keep trying to improve. I would secretly love to be a photographer someday. 🙂 Thank you for your encouragement!
Meg @Life, Love and The Webers says
Hospital tours are so fun! It makes it all so much more real. Enjoy your weekend and Happy Easter!!
Christina Warren says
Thank you, Meg! It is such unfamiliar territory! Pretty exciting!!!
Abby says
That looks like a lovely restaurant! I’m happy to see you’re “living a little”. 😉 All the feedback on your site looks wonderful, and I’m looking forward to more of your lifestyle and personal posts, too. I enjoy reading everything on your blog, though. 🙂 Have an awesome Easter weekend!! xoxo
Christina Warren says
LOL-lots of living! 🙂 Thank you! I love to improve/tinker with the blog. It’s fun! Have a wonderful weekend too, sweet Abby!!!
Becca Dorr says
Hi, I need those fries in my mouth right now.
Christina Warren says
LOL. This seriously cracked me up! Yes, I always want fries!!
Diana Me'chelle says
the food looks amazing! I’m definitely going to have to go there considering i live in Santa Monica 🙂 happy Friday!
Christina Warren says
Cool! The happy hour has a great selection. On Tuesdays, all the pizzas are half off too! The salad is not on the happy hour menu but I often get that too! You’ll love it! We eat at Senior Citizen time anyway so happy hours rock for us. Oh, get a little burger at Upper West’s happy hour too. DE-LISH! Upper West doesn’t offer their happy hour menu. You have to usually ask for it-check online for details. Cute place. Happy Friday!
Rowena @ rolala loves says
Okay I’m totally drooling over that amazing looking food and lunch isn’t until another hour. That photo of you looking out the window is gorgeous! I’m my own programmer too 🙂 Happy Easter and enjoy your weekend Christina!
Rowena @ rolala loves
Christina Warren says
Thank you, Rowena! What a complement! WOW! I know, being your own programmer is a blessing and a curse! lol. Happy Easter!!
Pamela Bannon says
That food looks delicious! Enjoy your hospital tour! So exciting! Have a wonderful weekend! xoxo
Christina Warren says
We had a peek at the hospital wing last night at the baby CPR class we took. It looks very nice…but it still made me a bit anxious! 🙂 Oh the beauties of childbirth that I will soon know. 🙂 Happy Easter!
Andreea Belc says
Happy Easter weekend Christina! That restaurant looks amazing and it reminds me of one of the restaurants we frequent here…pizza and salad, my kind of meal!
Christina Warren says
Thank you so much, Andreea! Oh this is a classic fun meal for us. The simple pleasures in life. Decadent happy hours are my jam! Have a great weekend!
jackie jade says
oooh that restaurant looks awesome and I want a tufted leather bench/couch just like that. sigh. and your photography is so amazing! I always love seeing pretty images 🙂 especially since I’ve been severely lacking in my photography lately. have a great weekend!
Christina Warren says
AAAH, I totally see a tufted bench in your home. PS love your couch. Really, amazing photography? You are too kind. I am so flattered! I have frustrated with it and just recently it has been looking more like what I had envisioned. I love the challenge. Thank you! Have a great weekend too!
Lauren {Fizz & Frosting} says
That meal looks out of this world! Hope you have a great weekend and enjoy your hospital tour!
Christina Warren says
Oh, you know it! Seeing the hospital last night at the baby CPR course was exciting and a little scary! 🙂 It gets more real every day! Have a great weekend! Love your maternity posts!