YugaTech CSS reboot!

Abe Olandres Editor-in-chief July 24, 2007 · 1 min read

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yugatech 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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92 Comments

Abe Olandres Editor-in-chief · 19 years ago

Thanks for the feedback everyone! I’m scouting for a nice replacement background. :D

Sasha · 19 years ago

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. :D

Datu · 19 years ago

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.

Connie · 19 years ago

Sa wakaasss!!! Looks great!

mr nice ash · 19 years ago

this is a truly nice design… i like it…

karla · 19 years ago

wow! masmalinis tignan abe :)

jervis · 19 years ago

i love the logo! simple but very nice

Eugene · 19 years ago

How about making the stripes really small. Like Friendster’s? :-)

Rico · 19 years ago

Must…drop…stripes! :D

Abe Olandres Editor-in-chief · 19 years ago

Thanks for the link. Still busy tweaking a lot of the CSS codes. There are still bugs to be fixed.

Manuel Viloria · 19 years ago

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/

jhay · 19 years ago

Wonderful new theme, the stripes are just perfect if you ask me.

issai · 19 years ago

kewl, the stripes are hypnotic

Marcvill · 19 years ago

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.

Jaypee · 19 years ago

All I can say is, “It’s about time!” Hehe :D

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. :)

Abe Olandres Editor-in-chief · 19 years ago

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!

Mindanao Bob · 19 years ago

Theme looks good, except for the stripes! Hard on the eyes!

retz · 19 years ago

huwaw! ganda at ang lambot!

forex dude · 19 years ago

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.

Joni · 19 years ago

Nice! I like it. :)

Apples · 19 years ago

My first reaction was wow! I love neat themes and clean lines on layouts. I am envious! Kudos!

elmer · 19 years ago

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!

noemi · 19 years ago

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.

marhgil · 19 years ago

this one is way better than the previous one. bug? i noticed you have 2 keyword meta tags :)

Karlo.PinoyBlogero · 19 years ago

Nice theme. Though the slanted lines on both sides makes me dizzy.

Dexter · 19 years ago

Woow .. Good new theme..

BrianB · 19 years ago

Congratulations, Yuga. I was never a fan of the old site design. This one’s nice. Reminds me of stationary.

Ade · 19 years ago

I love the new theme!

PBlogger · 19 years ago

this theme is much better than the old one

www.animomedia.com · 19 years ago

I dont like the stripes . I still like the old theme you had before.

Nick Nichols · 19 years ago

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.

leo · 19 years ago

uy, great theme!

wites · 19 years ago

nice layout pre! btw, what’s with the “read full story” even on the main post?

Eugene · 19 years ago

Finally, proper permalinks! I was quite bothered by the numeric IDs you used before… quite bad in terms of SEO. :)

Lloyd · 19 years ago

Neato!

kates · 19 years ago

Pwedeng pwede sa sponsored themes.

Em Dy · 19 years ago

Better than what it used to be. Easy on the eyes.

Major Tom · 19 years ago

Wow..this theme design rocks. I wonder if it’d be available with a public version.

koolitz · 19 years ago

neat!

Tina · 19 years ago

Looks great to me. :)

vance · 19 years ago

nice new theme… I will miss the starbucks header. hehe

LinkedPH · 19 years ago

neato theme. i agree with aczafra, very web 2.0ish indeed.

Manuel Viloria · 19 years ago

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.

becypher · 19 years ago

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.