Blog Makeover - New ‘Professional’ Wordpress Theme :)

Posted on 17. Jan, 2009 by Derrick in Blogging, The Net Experiment

Ok, so I’ve been a bit slack posting up on the website, but only because I’ve been busy working on a few things for the site - including the NEW LOOK!. . And as usual everything takes time. I Spent about 5 hours yesterday setting up, plus about 5-10 hours surfing the web looking for what I wanted this week.

Still a few minor tweaks to get it to how I want. I’ve attached a snapshot of what the old blog looked like (with some missing widgets as I forget to take a screenshot before I changed the theme, so its missing my RSS subscribe and optin box for the ebook, at the top right, but it gives you a pretty good idea to compare:

Blog Theme Jan 17th 2009

I’m aslo thinking of bring back the cartoon element, as I like it better:

Blog Theme Dec 2008

What do you think? Do you like the new look? Prefer the old one? Think I should bring back the cartoon character?

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6 Responses to “Blog Makeover - New ‘Professional’ Wordpress Theme :)”

Themelis Cuiper

17. Jan, 2009

Hi Derrick,

Themelis Cuiper here from
Amsterdam the Netherlands,

I liked the first blog but i see this one is more quet to read the posts, i myself am in doubt if i should take another design, it is not that comfortable with the font formats, they sometimes change spontaneous to another style.

how come that while you where one of the first of the 500 students i have contact with im still not on your blogrol. tsk tsk tsk. just teasing you my favorite ninja.

please list yourself again at
http://alex-jeffreys-students.com/alumni-blogrol-signup

You are so welcome.

Did you get the Jointventure proposal at
http://jvvillage.ning.com/profiles/blogs/jointventure-proposal-say-yes ?

talk to you soon on twitter
http://twitter.com/Themelis_Cuiper

Themelis

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- admin
  
  17. Jan, 2009
  
  Hi Themelis,
  
  Thanks for the comment. . My apologies for not having added you to the blogroll, but you’ll be happy to know I just did. by the way. went over to your site, and see that you have organised the names very well alphabetically :). .
  
  I might have to get the new list off you!
  
  by the way could you fix my web address from blog.derricksiu.com to http://www.thenetexperiment.com?
  
  many thanks!
  
  Derrick
  
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Joe

18. Jan, 2009

Hey Derrick.

I really like the new theme - it’s clean, crisp and modern.

A job well done!

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- admin
  
  18. Jan, 2009
  
  Hey Joe,
  
  thanks for the compliment. long time no hear :). . I guess we’ve both been busy working on our blogs
  
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John Halderman

30. Jan, 2009

Derrick,

I agree, doesn’t jsut take a huge amount of time looking around for a theme that you like. I’ve got many hours into it myself. And then getting it all set up, not always as easy as clicking on the new theme.

You will have to pick the theme to stick with. This new one is quite calming to look at. And I like the newspaper style with the two columns of posts, however, I just read where it is suggested to have fewer posts on a page. Gives your blog more pages and better for monitization - so they say.

John

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club penguin

30. Dec, 2009

This blog is great! Thanks for your hard work on it.

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