Aylee Bits is now mobile-friendly.  More people browse the web via their mobile phone including me, so I decided to make it a little easier for them us.

You can easily revert to the regular layout by clicking “View Full Version” at the bottom of the screen.

For those who are using WordPress and want to go mobile as well, I use the plugin MobilePress.  It’s great and very easy.  Just install, activate and you’re done.

Happy mobile browsing!

I have added a new feature to Aylee Bits – Across the Blogosphere.  I will be posting links and small excerpts of blog articles that I find very helpful and hopefully my readers will find them helpful as well.

You will find my first Across the Blogosphere feature two posts down.  You will notice the featured posts are formatted differently.  If you have any blog articles that you want to share, just let me know.  It might get featured here too.

We’re in a technology boom and more and more engaged couples now have their own wedding websites.  Wedding websites can be very useful to guests.  These websites usually include detailed info about the wedding and other events, travel info for out-of-town guests, gift registry, and even an RSVP form.

While there are a lot of sites that offer wedding website services and hosting for a fee, there are equally as many sites that offer it for free.  Below are some that I know of:
www.weddingwire.com - my top choice
www.mywedding.com
www.weddingannouncer.com
www.projectwedding.com
www.brides.com
www.theknot.com
www.momentville.com
www.ewedding.com

Unfortunately, I couldn’t customize the free websites as much as I want to.  So I decided to use one that I’m familiar with - the blog platform WordPress.

Read on…

I love Martha Stewart and of course especially now, I love her Weddings department.  Even though Martha Stewart Weddings is one of the very few magazines that are worth reading, I am so annoyed with the website.  Recently, they have done a few improvements.

First of all, MS Weddings finally has its own url: www.marthastewartweddings.com.  The navigation and organization annoyed me the most with the old website.  Even though they have improved with the new one, I still find the new website to be less user-friendly than other popular wedding websites.  But it will do.

Since I like the Brides.com site, I figured I will like their blog Wedded Bits as well.  Unfortunately, not.  I’ve had the blog on my RSS reader for months and I decided to take it out. 

I noticed that most of the entries on Wedded Bits are about wedding products and services.  I’m starting to believe these posts are sponsored – they were paid to post about these products and services.  If there are any tips or advice at wedding planning at all, they revolve around a product or service.  One exception are the “Brides are Talking” posts which pertains to posts in their forums, which I think didn’t really require much effort or thinking from the part of the blog authors.

There was one post where the author began his/her post about a nice venue in Manhattan where they held a bridal shower without mentioning the venue’s name.  Then the author proceeded to talk about a similar venue in California which was the main topic of the post.  I then left a comment asking about the venue in Manhattan, but I never got a response.  Some assumptions I had as to why: they weren’t paid to mention the Manhattan venue; whatever Manhattan venue they were really talking didn’t exist so they don’t really have a specific name they can tell me.

I just realized that the Contact page on this blog is having some problems.  I haven’t been receiving emails sent through the page for the past month.  I apologize to those who sent emails as I was unable to receive and reply to them.  I’m so sorry for the inconvenience.

Before the blogging concept came to, we had what we called diaries or journals.  They’re books where we keep our thoughts written.  Now that blogs have almost taken over, I was wondering if people still keep diaries – diaries that are personal and kept private, sometimes with a lock and key.

I never kept a diary.  The only thing close to a diary that I have is this blog.  But this blog is not at all private.  It doesn’t contain all my personal thoughts and secrets.  Would I get a diary (digital like Diary.com or not) to write down my most personal thoughts?  Probably not.  I’m too busy as it is.  But would you?  Or do you have one?

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Hey Cosmo is a FREE automated telephone service that works like an automated personal assistant – though limited.  What does it do?

Looking for restaurants, plumbers, or any type of business? Hey Cosmo can search for them and call them for you with questions you pre-defined.  You can then review the answers to your inquiries at the website.

Need to call a lot of people to invite them to your event? Hey Cosmo can call them for you and inform them of your event. Hey Cosmo also lets you set up options where your guests can vote on the phone (i.e. time of the event).  You then monitor who picked up the phone and listened.

Wanna give your friend a funny prank call? Hey Cosmo can do the dirty work for you. Type your message and Hey Cosmo makes the call

There are more, so click here to start.

GeekSugar

I usually don’t use my email’s homepage (My Yahoo! for Yahoo! mail and iGoogle for Gmail).  But since I’ve been reading a lot more blogs now, I decided to set up a homepage to keep up with the blogs I read.  I went with My Yahoo! because I use Yahoo! email, Calendar and Notepad.

My Yahoo! looks a lot nicer than iGoogle.  You get more customizability as well.  While iGoogle only allows you to change the skin, My Yahoo! allows you to select colors (themes) and layouts.

Both homepages have many modules and tools, but iGoogle seem to have more.  I still stayed with My Yahoo! because it has all the modules I need anyway.

I hate the My Yahoo! RSS feeder though.  It doesn’t refresh well.  In addition, weird things happen.  One day, the posts are current.  Then the next day, some of those posts just disappear and the latest posts I see on the reader are from a couple of days ago.  I click on the Refresh button and nothing seems to refresh at all.

I just saw a post from one of my new readers in a forum directing people to my posts with templates:

I soughted through most of the crap and found a page dedicated to wedding templates.

Apparently all the other posts in my blog that do not feature templates are crap.  This doesn’t really bother me, she liked my templates .  But I just want everyone to know that this is my personal blog, hence the title.  So I should warn you that most of my posts will be about me and my interests.

But since most of my readers are brides-to-be who like to DIY (do-it-yourself), I decided to add Popular Wedding Links on the side/sidebar for easy access/navigation.