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Reverting to me old theme : MyJournal

March 13th, 2007 by Hans

I recently changed my theme to a 2 Column one which I called Fusion with the thought of emphasing on the different section/pages I have on this blog. I also came up with the idea of incorporating the RSS icon directly into the banner so that it can be easily noticed.

My previous one which I called MyJournal and which most people did like and still prefer was listing those pages only at the sidebar. There was another reason that I did change to a new theme. It was just because I thought releasing MyJournal to the public in some days and make it available for download.

Today I’ve decided to revert to me previous theme MyJournal and welcome all feedbacks and suggestions that you would like to make it a better theme so that people who would download it would really enjoy it. The live and demo version is my blog itself with the changes you suggested and improvements as they come in. The theme is for the time being:

  1. 3 Columns with the 2 sidebars at the right
  2. Widget friendly(drag and drop to manipulate section/components of your sidebar
  3. SEO Optimised
  4. Lightning fast
  5. Light minimalist
  6. Easy navigation bar on the left appearing at any instance of scrolling pointing you to the home,rss feeds,contact page and any more that you can further add

Updates:

  1. Added header navigation bar with banner incorporating RSS icon. I shall offer the banner with the download without the BlogoSquare heading though. Thanks to Nym for the tip.
  2. banner

  3. Added title tip when hovering on any links so that you can help your visitors by giving details of the specified link. You’ll only have to add the title tag in the link and this will get displayed. Thanks to Nym again
  4. title tip

So please come leave a comment and tell me what’s in more. The final and best version will then get released which you would be able to download and use on your wordpress blog.

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  • 1 Mauritius Blog Tracker Mar 13, 2007 at 6:14 am

    So please come leave a comment and tell me what’s in more. The final and best version will then get released which you would be able to download and use on your wordpress blog. Share This © Hans for BlogoSquare, 2007. | Permalink | No comment | Add to del.icio.us | Search blogs linking this post with Technorati | Filed under under wordpress, blogger. Read more here

  • 2 Nym Mar 13, 2007 at 11:12 am

    I prefer this one to the previous (black, the one you had yesterday).
    The nav bar to the right which follows the reader is a very good idea and quite comprehensive (but it was better with infobulles, i think)
    But the banner is missing (or at least something bigger than the tiny ‘blogosquare’ at the bottom of the sidebar). Moreover if you want to release it, it would be better to have a thing (banner so) to easily personalize the design.

  • 3 Hans Mar 13, 2007 at 12:25 pm

    @ Nym

    Done as said :smile: thanks so much for bringing your feedbacks in here…..they are really indeed so much appreciated :smile:

    now working on the info bubble feature :cool:

    thanks for your comment

  • 4 Khalil A. Mar 13, 2007 at 3:21 pm

    Maybe it’s time to just stay put and fixed on one theme in particular, don’t you think?

  • 5 kyu Mar 13, 2007 at 3:28 pm

    yeah, and give me time to ketchup-catch up with my theme designing ni-san :grin: :grin:

  • 6 Hans Mar 13, 2007 at 3:36 pm

    @ Khalil A. :

    haha lol….. yeah I think that will be my fixed and permanent theme…..I just love tinkering with the design..perhaps too perfectionist lol..that’s why I’m in hunt for releasing wp themes lol :P

    so got a feedback for this permanent stay with MyJournal??? any new features you would like?

  • 7 knight17 Mar 13, 2007 at 3:50 pm

    It will be great if the font of the theme was a little more readable, I prefer Trebe MS would be nice.

    The font size also needs a little adjustment, a little more bigger one would be nice.

    The tooltip is also looking cool :)

  • 8 Nym Mar 13, 2007 at 4:08 pm

    aaaah better !!! The banner really fits in :cool: :cool:

  • 9 waz Mar 13, 2007 at 5:08 pm

    only wordpress? :(
    mane, when will throw us people at blogger a lifeline?
    i feel abandoned! rejected! terrible! ;(

    :P

  • 10 Yashvin Mar 13, 2007 at 7:11 pm

    hey mate…
    i like all ur themes :D :cool:

  • 11 TechZ Mar 13, 2007 at 8:20 pm

    The old theme is brilliant and the new one you switched to temporarily was amazing. I’d have a tough time picking between teh two!

  • 12 Hans Mar 14, 2007 at 12:54 pm

    @ kyu

    prepare to battle lol :P hey ni-san I told ya not to bother about theme now….you’ve got an exam and a project to complete….so what the heck are you doing with theme dev…hein??? 57% complete…that’s below average……..get up and complete there first…… I’ll be waiting for you before designing another new one :)

  • 13 Hans Mar 14, 2007 at 12:55 pm

    @ knight17:

    added to current working…thanks for the tip pal :)

  • 14 Hans Mar 14, 2007 at 12:57 pm

    @ waz:

    lol :P hope anoop kun would be able to do some port if you do like the theme…….. would you like that for blogger? Do tell me so that I can contact the required division lol :)

  • 15 Hans Mar 14, 2007 at 12:58 pm

    @ Yashvin :

    thanks for appreciating them :) more to come but as promised to Kyu-san : no more new things before he finish his computer project paper :(

  • 16 Hans Mar 14, 2007 at 1:00 pm

    @ TechZ:

    would you want any of them?….. I thought pumping more features into that one before releasing it as for the previous black one you can have it too…….just tell me and it’s on your way….:)

  • 17 kyu Mar 14, 2007 at 3:37 pm

    am getting to it dont worry.

    hey, anoop-kun is using wordpress now i think :) (Check ur incoming links, you should have him listed :) )

  • 18 Khalil A. Mar 14, 2007 at 10:18 pm

    I actually liked the previous theme more than this one. But this one is good too, don’t get me wrong.

    Lol.

  • 19 Hans Mar 15, 2007 at 3:14 pm

    @ kyu :

    shhh… don’t tell it…. let him finish the design first lol… :P

  • 20 Hans Mar 15, 2007 at 3:16 pm

    @ Khalil A. :

    nope buddy…. I appreciate all feedbacks in here either bad or good….. so thanks for telling me about it. Perhaps who know I shall be getting MyJournal to another mod in dark….. let’s see :)

    but if you just love the previous one…gotta ask me and it’s on your way :)

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