Your Favorite Gringos Get a Makeover
Posted By: LibbyThis blog was in serious need of a new look. Ever since John changed the site to the Shaded Grey (sure sounds exciting, don’t it?) Wordpress theme, I’ve hated it! Maybe that’s why I’ve barely written anything for this blog since then. The conversation that ensued after his redesign was something like this.
Libby: “That’s really boring!”
John: “Well, if you don’t like, YOU can change it!”
Libby: “Fine, I will!”
And that I did … it only took me about a year.
The photo in the banner was taken by me in Playa del Carmen just south of Coco Bay. I spent an entire evening searching through endless photos of beaches, palm trees, people, cats, parties, food pics, family events, etc to find one I liked well enough for the banner. We have a tons of photos, all organized only by date. How do you find a picture of a Playa del Carmen beach when you need one? So, I finally downloaded some much needed photo organization software, Adobe Photoshop Album Starter Edition. It’s free! If you’re looking for a full-featured photo organizer and editor, you should go with Adobe Photoshop Elements
You might notice that we’re now shamelessly plugging our In the Roo website all over this blog. It’s our baby, and although we still have a lot more work to do, we’re quite proud of it. In the Roo is a searchable and taggable directory of Playa del Carmen hotels, condos, restaurants, bars, stores, websites, you name it! Make sure you check out our interactive Google map. Street overlays are not yet available for this area, so John painstakingly built all the streets on our map. And all the cool features you see are the result of his brilliant programming skills!
As if all this self-promotion weren’t enough, now we’re promoting other companies and products as well with the new ads on this site. Yes, we’re sell-outs. But hey, everyone else is getting rich off the internet, why not us! Well, we can dream can’t we.
And finally, for you bookmarking fiends, I’ve also added icons for bookmarking our posts at several popular bookmarking sites.
I promise that the next post will have something to do with Mexico!
Love the new look and am excited to learn more about In the Roo. Do tell - what does ‘Roo’ mean?
I am so glad to learn that I am not the only one who takes a year to do something! It looks great.
Hi Sima! Thanks for your comments. The Roo is short for Quintana Roo, the state in which Playa del Carmen resides. We hope to one day cover other areas of Quintana Roo, but for now just keeping up with Playa is all we can handle.
Libby,
Cuff here.
Great photo for the banner. Ruth and I have similar photos of just that area we enjoy. Yours is a perfect choice.