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Until a few days ago, this site -- doreenmichele.blogspot.com -- was my personal blog and I had a separate site at DoreenTraylor.com that I thought of as my professional site where I had information on how to hire me to do resume work and the like. About three days ago, I fairly spontaneously redacted all the personal blog posts from this site and set about merging the two sites into one.

Now, DoreenTraylor.com redirects here. Most of the content was moved over from the other site. The only content I kept from my personal blog were the pages called Me, My Websites and References.

I also took design elements from both. I kept the pink and white template from my personal blog but added a pinned (permanent) Featured Post with the same photo from the other site. I also substantially edited a lot of the content from both sites to make everything more polished.


DoreenTraylor.com



Updated DoreenMichele.blogspot.com


I have no idea if I will end up making a new personal blog elsewhere, but this site is now about my work. Previously, I tried to use my personal blog to promote my creative work, like blogging, and my professional site to promote services, like resume work and website work that I sometimes do for pay. Now that's all been consolidated.

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