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Hello! Wow, we are excited to have you here with us!

Seriously, people. This. Is. Awesome!

Let’s take a little tour shall we? Grab a glass of wine, cup of coffee or beverage of choice and let’s get rolling!

We’ll start with the homepage. It should look a little something like this.

On the front page of our site you’ll see 9 main tabs. Each tab (with the exception of two) represents a day of the week.

  • Sunday=Her Faith
  • Monday=Her Kitchen
  • Tuesday=Her Family
  • Wednesday=Her Self
  • Thursday=Her Sanity
  • Friday=Her Community
  • Saturday=Her Home

The other  tab clear on the left side (on the end) you’ll learn all about Her (which we will get into in a second) and on the right side it’s our event calendar. (More details to come.)

Are you with me? Fantastic.

Let’s dive into each tab. Each main tab represents a category under that theme. 

For example:  Her Sanity includes Date Nights, Entertainment, Good Reads, Her Night Out and Pinspiration. Each tab has corresponding features within. Each  day of the week, 1-3 features will be posted.

For example – Her Sanity (on Thursdays) will have 1-3 features that represent either Date Night, Entertainment, etc.

Most of the tabs have at least one article (if not more) for you to already read. There are several, however, that are still blank. We’ll get there! 🙂  With the help, of course, of our feature writers!

When you click on the “About Her” section of this website, scroll on down to the feature writers to learn all about them! We have a strong group of women who will write weekly/monthly for Her View From Home. You’ll meet them as their articles are posted each day!

You will be able to tell when the 3 founders of HVFH post as we will always have HER in front of our titles. 

WHEW! Still with me! Go fill your coffee cup and come back for more!

OK. We’re back. Seriously – I just took a little pop break and am ready for more action.

Let’s take a closer look at the side tabs.

On the very top of the site you’ll see logo’s from two of our fantastic supporters. We also have a side tab with scrolling ads  from more of our amazing supporters. We truly can not thank them enough for believing in our site. WOW – we appreciate them!

There are also a bunch of fun “extras” on the right hand side of our site. You can check out our Facebook page, latest tweets, sign up to receive e-mails from us and find out about our latest giveaways! You won’t want to miss those, as we give away fantastic gifts each Friday!

The bottom of our site displays links to some of our favorite websites! It also allows you to search something you need to find on our site! At the bottom of each particular article, you’ll find a comment section. Please do leave us a comment. We want to hear from you! Each posts lends you the opportunity to share to numerous social media outlets as well. With just a click of a button we can spread Her View From Home across the globe!

Last but not least, our calendar. Remember that tab on the right side that says events? Click on that to find our calendar!

This puppy is a work in progress! Our goal is to post as many events happening in Central and Western Nebraska that we possibly can. We have a good start but this one will continue to grow!

As I’ve said before, we have big plans! Phone Aps, cookbooks, a possibility to franchise are all options in our future. We believe Her View From Home can help bring a spotlight to an area of the country we love! We hope you love it too!

We want to hear from you! Can’t figure out the site? A tab isn’t working? Let us know. We’re pretty sure there will be glitches the first few days (even though our web guy is amazing!!) so be sure to tell us about it! We want to make the site as user friendly as we possibly can. Thanks!

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Leslie Means

Leslie is the founder and owner of Her View From Home.com. She is also a former news anchor, published children’s book author, weekly columnist, and has several published short stories as well. She is married to a very patient man. Together they have three fantastic kids.  When she’s not sharing too much personal information online and in the newspaper – you’ll find Leslie somewhere in Nebraska hanging out with family and friends. There’s also a 75% chance at any given time, you’ll spot her in the aisles at Target.

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