• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • Skip to footer

The Reluctant Gourmet

  • Planning
  • Recipes
  • Ingredients
  • Techniques
  • Tools
  • Shop
  • Tips
  • Careers
  • Contact
menu icon
go to homepage
search icon
Homepage link
  • Planning
  • Recipes
  • Ingredients
  • Techniques
  • Tools
  • Shop
  • Tips
  • Schools
  • Contact
    • Facebook
    • Google+
    • Instagram
    • LinkedIn
    • Pinterest
    • RSS
    • Twitter
  • ×

    New Dynamic Reluctant Gourmet Website Coming Soon

    September 13, 2012 by G. Stephen Jones

    New Reluctant Gourmet Website

    I’ve received some emails from some of you noticing I haven’t been posting many blog posts recently and if everything is all right. First let me thank you for your concerns and let you know that everything is just fine. The reason I haven’t been posting much lately is because we are putting the finishing touches on a year long project to update The Reluctant Gourmet website to a brand new platform.

    Trying to keep up with all the incredible technology now available, reluctantgourmet.com is transforming from a static html site to a dynamic Joomla  engine. (I tried Joomla but it turned out to be a disaster so I changed it to WordPress)

    What this means is you will be able to navigate the site much more easily to find the cooking techniques and recipes you are interested in and a whole bunch more bells and whistles.

    Some of the new features in the new site are:

    Search recipes by Ingredient – Recipe – Category – Technique and Cooking Tools

    Ability to find similar recipes when looking at a recipe – for example let’s say you are checking out my turkey soup recipe, you will soon be able to find photos and links to 4 or 5 other soup recipes on the same page.

    Categorized cooking techniques – I’ve put all the cooking techniques into separate categories so if you are interested in learning “how to braise”, all my posts about braising are right there.

    If you then want to find all my braising recipes, there is going to be an easy way to find them too.

    Integration of Blog and Site – right now there is a web site and a blog with no coordination between the two. With the new design, it will look like one seamless site that’s easy to navigate.

    There will be quick access to social media like Facebook and Twitter plus I’m adding Pinterest. And there will be RSS feeds from all the major category pages.

    More photography with larger images and as I learn more about food photography, (hopefully) better food shots.
    The ability to make the font sizes larger or smaller. I don’t know about you, but it seems the font size on some sites is getting smaller and smaller. I suppose it could be my eyes aren’t what they used to be.

    Here’s one you’ve all be asking for – the ability to print recipes without all the stuff in the headers, footers and right column. You’ll even be able to print with or without the photos.

    So please be patient with me. We are getting close, but there is still a whole bunch more to do. Every recipe, article and photo has to be brought over to the layout, cleaned up, reformatted and then checked for mistakes. I never realized I had posted that many pages over the years. There sure are a lot of them.

    I think you will enjoy the new look and appreciate the easier navigation. We are doing what we can to launch as soon as possible with the understanding that many of the pages will need to be tweaked afterward.

    I’m still eating so I’m still cooking and will try to post some new recipes and techniques while this is all going on but wanted you to know why you haven’t heard from me in a while.  I’ll be sure to post updates on my Facebook and Twitter pages, as we get closer to launch.

    Wish me luck

     

    « Beef Chart and Retail Beef Cuts
    Cooking Tongs »

    I'm a work-at-home dad who enjoys cooking, learning everything I can about the culinary world and sharing it with you. To learn more about me... Read More…

    Reader Interactions

    Comments

    1. maurice

      October 15, 2012 at 8:55 pm

      Looks great.

    Primary Sidebar

    Search My Site

    Who Is The Reluctant Gourmet?

    I'm a work-at-home dad who enjoys cooking, learning everything I can about the culinary world and sharing it with you. To learn more about me... Read More…

    How Not to Cook Book

    Cooking Mistakes and How to Fix Them

    Categories

    Reluctant Gourmet on Instagram

    Footer

    About the Reluctant Gourmet

    I'm a work-at-home dad who enjoys cooking, learning everything I can about the culinary world and sharing it with you. To learn more about me... Read More…

    • Facebook
    • Google+
    • Instagram
    • LinkedIn
    • Pinterest
    • RSS
    • Twitter

    Featured Favorites

    Why Is My Halibut So Dry

    Bucatini all'Amatriciana Recipe

    Bucatini all'Amatriciana Recipe

    Pasta with Spinach Garlic and Guanciale Sauce Recipe

    Pasta with Spinach Garlic and Guanciale Sauce Recipe

    Fun Stuff

    • Cartoons
    • Events
    • Opinion
    • Press Releases

    Important Links

    • Advertising Disclosure
    • Terms of Use
    • Copyright Info
    • Privacy Policy
    • Home
    • About The Reluctant Gourmet
    • Contact Me
    • Advertising

    Copyright © 2022 · The Reluctant Gourmet