If you’re reading us from a feed reader, hop on over to our main site and take a look at the brand new design and set-up we’re got at STACKED.

After six and a half years, we decided it was time to get a new look. Kim and I had been talking about doing this for years, but we never took the leap. We recently discovered a huge problem with being hosted on Blogger — one we’re not at liberty to talk about but was a security and safety issue — and that made us choose now to change. We’ve gone to being self-hosted at WordPress and underwent a custom redesign with Designer Blogs. We could not be happier with the look or with the entire process of working with Erika and the team at Designer Blogs. STACKED is now cleaner, easier to read, and modern without being too cute or too white and hard on the eyes. We’re also huge fans of the new logo.

Over the next few weeks, we’ll be working to update our drop-down menus to ensure that our stuff is much easier to find and navigate than it was before. There will be hiccups throughout. We know some images and links and spacing got muddied a bit while the change happened, but we’ll be working to fix it over the next month or so.

Our goal is to make navigating STACKED much simpler and cleaner. We want to make it so people who want a book list can find a book list without a problem. We are making it easy to find posts on specific topics, and we’re working to streamline our labeling system and to pull out some backlist gems we know are ripe for revisiting. Since we’re now on WordPress, we know images are a little trickier to work with, so we’ll be coming up with ways to improve the visual elements we so frequently write about, too.

Thanks for being STACKED readers, and we hope you enjoy the new look as much as we do.