This has long been overdue but we’ve finally moved on to a new blog design. For the past 2 and a half years, since the last reboot and move to WordPress, this blog had sported the heavily-modified Connections theme, prolly the most kick-ass opensource theme of that time.
Today, after about 7 months of sluggish progress, I present you the new YugaTech theme. This 3-column design was inspired by K2 and GlossyBlue themes.
I’ve also changed the permalink structure of the site so apologies if you’ve been getting errors from the old theme. I’m hoping to stick to this theme for a very long time so start getting used to it. I’m still fixing that { more } tag in the full feeds so those who are reading this form their feed readers, please bear with me.
As usual, this is a work in progress. Please do send some comments if you see some bugs or if previous plugins don’t seem to work now. Comments and suggestions are very much welcomed. Cheers!
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weee 1st comment on the new theme!!!!
btw, nice layout! =)
Yey! Finally, a much needed re-design! Looks cool and gives a web 2.0ish feel to the site. I just don’t like the striped background. =)
Congrats dude!
congrats man. the “philippine tech news and views” is a little small though. yeah the diagonal blue stripes is too visible, just a little lighter perhaps. yay 3 columns, more widgets and plugins, more ad space.
I checked your Google listing, Abe, and the old links are 301′ing to your new permalinks.
I just wonder how the search engines will treat your future posts, though. In the previous theme, your post titles were enclosed in H2 tags. In this latest theme, they’re enclosed in H4 tags.
It would be interesting to see if the new theme will have an SEO impact on Yugatech.
neato theme. i agree with aczafra, very web 2.0ish indeed.
nice new theme… I will miss the starbucks header. hehe
Looks great to me.
neat!
Wow..this theme design rocks. I wonder if it’d be available with a public version.
Better than what it used to be. Easy on the eyes.
Pwedeng pwede sa sponsored themes.
Neato!
Finally, proper permalinks! I was quite bothered by the numeric IDs you used before… quite bad in terms of SEO.
nice layout pre! btw, what’s with the “read full story” even on the main post?
uy, great theme!
Thanks for continuing to push toward full feeds. Looking forward to getting those back.
Site looks nice. The small font is a bear on an old man like me, though
But with RSS I don’t really care - RSS gives me a nice, readable font regardless.
I dont like the stripes . I still like the old theme you had before.
this theme is much better than the old one
I love the new theme!
Congratulations, Yuga. I was never a fan of the old site design. This one’s nice. Reminds me of stationary.
Woow .. Good new theme..
Nice theme. Though the slanted lines on both sides makes me dizzy.
this one is way better than the previous one. bug? i noticed you have 2 keyword meta tags
of course you can ignore this. In my 22 inch monitor, the slanted background makes me dizzy. Pero I love the new look, the bright orange…love it so don’t mind me.
cool upgrade! it makes me think of updating my blog too. btw, what’s on your logo? is it a tv/radio/cell tower or a ladder? im kidding, simple is cool!
My first reaction was wow! I love neat themes and clean lines on layouts. I am envious! Kudos!
Nice! I like it.
definitely much better than your first theme. the “barber lightpost” on the side is an eye candy, and the tiles on the comment section gives it a homie feeling.
nice. nice.
huwaw! ganda at ang lambot!
Theme looks good, except for the stripes! Hard on the eyes!
Thanks, everyone, for the comments! I think it was well worth the long wait.
As for the stripes, I’m looking to change that as well as the logo.
@ Manuel - yup, that was one consideration I heavily gambled on. Hope the long term effect is on the positive side.
@ Nick - I’m searching for that FB plugin to fix it. Sorry for the temporary inconvenience.
@ elmer - it’s a cell tower. hahaha!
@ wites - more tweaks pa yan men!
All I can say is, “It’s about time!” Hehe
Love the new theme, although I kinda think the stripe background doesn’t go well with the overall design. I dunno, maybe it’s just me. But all in all, great job Abe!
The color reminds me of your old website Redshift.
Wow!! I like the header the most. Nakakapanibago, shet. I’m predicting that you will eventually change the “hypnotic barber lightpost slanted stripes background”.
After staring at it for a few minutes, the hidden subliminal message finally got into me!! - Abe is the most influential blogging overlord godfather.
kewl, the stripes are hypnotic
Wonderful new theme, the stripes are just perfect if you ask me.
You might wish to consider adjusting your meta description tag, Abe. Since it’s blank for all your posts, your posts might appear like duplicates.
Anyway, here’s a good page on how to adjust a WordPress theme:
http://www.mytypes.com/seoblogtemplates/wordpress-seo-guide/
Thanks for the link. Still busy tweaking a lot of the CSS codes. There are still bugs to be fixed.
Must…drop…stripes!
How about making the stripes really small. Like Friendster’s?
i love the logo! simple but very nice
wow! masmalinis tignan abe
this is a truly nice design… i like it…
Sa wakaasss!!! Looks great!
Body text is too SMALL. Striped background is annoying especially when the container color of white hasn’t loaded yet.
Please make text at least 2 points larger.
Refreshing! Stripes are a bit off (never thought of you to be the type, hehe) and I’m sort of missing the blog blurb on the header but over-all the site looks fab! I particularly like the Yugatech font.
Thanks for the feedback everyone! I’m scouting for a nice replacement background.