Lipped Media

In case you haven’t noticed…

The news around here is that after way slowing down for a while, we’re almost fully back and working harder at being 100% and eventually 200%+.

Over the summer we had server outages due to “referrer spam” attacks like crazy and had to first figure out that was the problem, then work on preventing it from getting too bad in the future (we can’t completely control forces outside ourselves slash outside “good” humanity). We had to rest the domains on our own private server because we basically get more hits than shared hosting can take, and sometimes we still go down. We’re on it. (The other day we had a major outage due to a wrong click in our control panel - you can see we’re not fully pros at webmastering!)

We also had our chiefista, Ella, hardly working while she prepared for, executed, and “recovered from” (doing post work) a move from MA down to FL! Big move. Ella’s back working full time on everything, and is working harder and harder as time moves on. (However, bad Ella still needs to focus a lot of time on unpacking, go go! Bad girl.)

There were also upsets at Style Spotlight because of a major outage due to an installed script failure. It even now affects how many entries are posted, but please have patience with it.

Onward, my friends!

Well, WordPress, our blogging script, updated to a different/new version and LippedMedia.com’s template was not compatible. Right now we’re using a very standard stock theme, and we’ll be working on customizing that for a bit (for now). We might completely switch thing’s up a bit later on.

All our sidebar stuff is currently missing, but hang on…

We have a new forum, Lipped Fashion Forums.

Our authenticity forum moved to the new forum, too. Visit here.

Pursed Lips changed its name and moved to Bag Dream. (There were technical problems.)

Sarah Jean Snarker started a site somewhat dirtier than our others here, for celebrity gossip; Kiss My Starse.

Lipped Media has taken a few steps back in order to continue forward. Ella worked tirelessly trying to teach staff bloggers every newly learned thing it took to write a search-engine-friendly post, editing to keep everything professional, and finding and training new bloggers, because these part-timer/freelancers had to move on to full-time career jobs or take personal issue leaves.

When family issues arose, she could no longer train new bloggers, but they kept leaving. (Then school started again, and it was hard, and things only got worse with a family wedding.) Ella had to make the decision to close all un- or little-manned (no womanned) blogs. It was definitely tough.

Then Ella herself had to work only part-time, but keeps up two of her blogs regularly now.

I’m sorry if a favorite blog of yours had to cease posting, but someday when this is a full-time, well-paid career for Ella, she will start with staff again. She needs a web coder, a virtual assistant, and then only with a manager of staff can she have a full collection of writers again.

But this will take time. Things are going well here, but everyone moves at his or her own pace. Some network might be huge, and that network might be a large company—but that doesn’t not mean Ella will stop this or let herself fail. We’re just working differently, even from where we were before. That’s OK.

And it will be a long road, like I said. Ella is finishing her degree in English, and hopes to move on to Fashion School. She will probably study design and fashion journalism, she is also learning to craft knit handbags. If she finds success with a line, who knows what will happen to us, but Ella wants to keep it going, keep herself writing. And success means more funds.

In the meantime, visit Kiss Me, Stace, Pursed Lips, for regular posts—and Designer-Ella.com, too, for occasional posts. Also, Ella’s cousin is continuing with new Lipped blog, Paws in Shoes. (But she lost a dog, so she’s just trying to gain hold of it all.)

Plus, at Kiss Me, Stace there will be occasional guest posts, some from familiar faces.

Thanks for reading and continuing to read. Good luck wishes to us?

• Designer Ella on Kiss Me, Stace posed cute and humorous advice for married women on shopping—and tricking their husbands into going along with big purchases. (Hint: it involves lingerie and even more high heels!)

  Plus, get your fix of “preety shoe pics” with Friday Cute, Cute Shoe Fest!

• HeidiGoLightly of Style Spotlight got the scoop on the Craziest Celebrity Baby Names of the Week. No, trust me on this, you must read!

  Achievement alert! : Sarah Jean Snarker even scooped People with intuiting Britney Spears’s poem was a prank and jab at “all the people who think they know [her].”

  Plus, Britney is a good, or at least cool, mom because of how she dresses Sean P.? But oops! She nearly slipped.

• Designer Ella brings her breathless excitement back as she returns to High Fashion High. Check out these Glitterella heels!

  (Jane Choo is in the process of moving, but Miss Cinnamon is sticking with Style Spotlight, solely.)

• The new blog Sharp Byte shows us the Fog Free Shower Mirror can be for girls!
• Pet-Pet’s LaLa MaMa reaches out to Hilary Duff to be safe with her pup.

  More in the health category is this Warming Soother.

  Plus, check out the cute dog on this cool Mod Bed!