Comments on: Changing Blog Theme: Lessons Learned

By: jco

jco — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 05:04:48 +0000

had just registered a domain..i’m transferring my blog right now.thanks for this

By: bascomputer

bascomputer — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 02:11:40 +0000

thanks for the tips..

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By: jhay

jhay — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 13:45:36 +0000

I’m on the same boat as Jaypee, I use to take a whole day when changing and customizing themes, now it can take me between 2 to 4 hours. hehe

I edit the theme files on a WP install on my computer and play with it there. Once I’m happy with the results, I just fire up the FTP and upload the themes. Seamless and easy, 70-90% of the time though.

By: Jaypee

Jaypee — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 15:52:38 +0000

Changing or upgrading your blog theme can be both time consuming and fun. Since I’m not that good in creating WordPress themes, I have fun customizing and tweaking public themes.

I agree about the darker background. I think it would make the overall layout look better.

By: roland

roland — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 09:00:00 +0000

i have watched the ‘mel & joey’ episode last sunday,aug.19—and i was so excited and still very interested to be a ‘blogger’,many thanks if you will be the one could help me in the near future,so hoping for the best! indeed,i am very interested.thank you so much!

abocejoroland@aol.com

By: yuga

yuga — Sun, 19 Aug 2007 23:28:18 +0000

Thanks for the input guys. Will be rolling out an updated version soon.

@Brian, not sure where that figure came from. Definitely not just Adsense. They also failed to mention I co-own one of the largest forums in the Philippines, among other forums.

By: BrianB

BrianB — Sun, 19 Aug 2007 22:37:45 +0000

Abe, Darker background definitely. Font sucks.I like the ad auction ads. Maybe they should be bigger.

Yuga is making $5,000 a month? That’s just Adsense?

By: Dave Starr --- ROI Guy

Dave Starr --- ROI Guy — Sun, 19 Aug 2007 21:55:07 +0000

A few thoughts on the new theme, especially regarding backgrounds in general: Lose them.

The diagonal lines are a pain. First of all they take up screen space that could be put to better use. Second, for anyone with a slow connection, they sometimes take forever to go away as the server seems to only “paint” the final screen long after all the text is already in place. So people are continually trying to red the blog thrpugh distracting diagonal lines. This is not aimed solely at this theme, there are many other popuar ones out there that emphasize graphics “cuteness” at the expense of reader’s ability to read the blog. I’m no CSS guru but I seem to remember reading somewhere that graphics design was supposed to move forward, long ago, from the antiquated idea of paint a screen over and over. Aparently, the puncit’s lied.

Think of the millions of bits per day that your server sends out consisting of nothing but diagonal lines filling the user’s screen to be instantly (or less than instantly) “erased” by the final screen.

I wonder what percentage of the overall ‘Net traffic consists of bits that are never meant to be seen by the human eye?

By: jerom

jerom — Sun, 19 Aug 2007 16:52:53 +0000

yup, i did watched it too. actually, i announced about it in my blog yesterday and hopefully many did. thanks yuga for the enlightenment.

By: sasieboy

sasieboy — Sun, 19 Aug 2007 14:32:53 +0000

Yeah that’s a lot of money here in Pinas, after I saw the success of Yuga in Mel and Joey episode my spirit to blog is burning :), Thanks Yuga for sharing your wisdom in the world of blogging.

By: joseph

joseph — Sun, 19 Aug 2007 12:48:26 +0000

Just saw the Mel and Joey episode. $ 5,000 a month? Wow.