A much needed ReDesign !!

Posted by aravind jose in Monday, July 14th 2008

Topics: Blogging

Average time to enjoy reading this = 0:32 minutes approx.

Many of my readers had sent me mails regarding my theme. They were of the opinion that the theme I used till now, is not suited for a regular blog. So, I decided to change it and have a nice ReDesign. And here’s the new fresher, cool, glassy look. This one loads much faster than the previous theme (47 HTTP Requests, though!!)

This theme also features jSlideRotator which allows you to rotate featured articles/featured videos in a space in the right. It will add a couple of more seconds to the load time. That’s why I’ve currently disabled it. I’ll activate once I’ve done some more tweaks.

So, what do you feel about the new look ? Isn’t it refreshing? And about the logo: 30-minute production from scratch with PhotoShop CS2. What’s your opinion ? What you feel ?

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12 Comments

At 2008.07.14 09:41, Kunal Gautam said:

Man as I said on twitter I can say only one word for it WOW . Site is really opening fast now

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At 2008.07.14 10:16, Manan said:

Yea! It was a much needed re-design Much better now!

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At 2008.07.14 14:38, Abhijeet said:

Looks refreshing and nice

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At 2008.07.14 21:05, aravind jose said:

Thanks to Kunal, Manan and Abhijeet for the great opinions. Even me feels more refreshed and cool now !!

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At 2008.07.16 01:59, Keith Dsouza said:

The new design looks good

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At 2008.07.21 14:21, Nirmal said:

The new design looks great and much better than the previous one.

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At 2008.07.24 02:04, Puneet said:

new visitor of ur blog .. so havent seen ur older design of blog … but the current design is lukin good one

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- At 2008.07.24 04:51, aravind jose said:
  
  Welcome Aboard Great to hear that you loved the blog.
  Hoping to see you around.
  
  The old theme was a full black 90% width Freshy2 theme.
  
  Cheers!!
  
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At 2008.07.25 00:33, Sathya said:

The new redesign does look really good. However, its (theme and comment system) is not Opera compatible. The theme is broken in Opera, and comments posted gets disappeared (lost couple of comments because of this).
And yes sorry for being late to post here, as you might be knowing, have been rather busy off late.

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At 2008.07.25 00:35, Sathya said:

Also, seems like the latest post-fetching plugin isn’t working.

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- At 2008.07.25 06:16, aravind jose said:
  
  Great to have you here, Sathya
  Itz unfortunate that the blog theme and comment system is not compatible with Opera. Opera doesn’t support AJAX ?
  I’ve even noticed some broken-ness with IE, too.
  
  Regarding the Latest Post Plugin,
  I’ll look into it.
  
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At 2008.07.25 17:28, Harry said:

Thanks for dropping by! I hope you didn’t need Asprin after that.

I like your blog….and design!

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