Review my New Blog Design – Get Reviewed
Finally after a long wait and many complain from all my visitors that they find many bugs on my old wordpress theme i worked on redesigning it with a fresh darker look with a widget supported wordpress theme, since widgets always save your time in case you dont know how to handle the wordpress themes backend and activating/running wordpress plugins.
I have got around 30 wordpress plugins/widgets running integrated on this new blog design, and many of which help my visitors in easy navigation of this blog. Iam going to have many contests here some of which include best comment poster prize, best reviewer of this blog prize etc
I need to know your personal view on this new design in terms of design, quality, navigation, colours, any problems if you find so i can fix them.
The best person to review my this new design will win a free review back of their own personal website in terms of design, user friendly tips and other points.
Iam also going to announce a another new content today where in you can make some easy $ via paypal , so stay tunes and subscribe to my blogs feed.
I hope this time no one can copy my blogs design since this one is a custom design and someone can copy it unles they get it coded again :p and iam sure no one would waste their bucks this way. Also dont forget to comment / reply on all the updates since this can help you in gain traffic from the top commentors section though the plugin isnt working for me, may be someone who has got sucess with this plugin can let me know the modified code to give a live link to all the “Top Commentors”
Amit
Hey this looks good except that in header it is showing white behind amit updates unlike in snapshot shown here .i refreshed 5 times but no change .
Overall looking cool n different
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This is seriously beautiful. Great work Amit.
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Good. But my feeling is, you can make some changes. The heading with a dark color would be fine, and the all the logos on the top right doesnt look good.
Make the subject some more wide so the
content reach will be good.
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Heeren did you check in IE? Since i feel IE sucks many a times in these kind of issues, please run ctrl+F5 and check again if you see the same bug.
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WOW looks nice.. The previous theme was too slow loading – I think there were some issues with kontera..
Nice them,, you need a nice banner
I see some parse error for first post..
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Alright, well the theme looks are good. It has a lot of space for what you actually need. The affiliates, the ads, the social tools like feedburner, etc goes very well with the theme. Actually they are placed right. The “Recent Replies” looks perfectly integrated.
The left sidebar is great as well.
Now for much more honest opinions, well, the ads on left sidebar (G link ads) could be better placed. Following that i guess the comments itself are not much readable. I mean like i am writing right now, it’s all light grey on white background, so it’s not easy to see what i am writing right now. The third and last suggestion is something which probably you uneditable. It’s the MyBlogLog widget. It really ain’t going with the theme. Plus, it’s kinda off from the actual sidebar…too much left aligned. Other than that the album looks a good attempt, enhancing your blog looks.
BOTTOMLINE: People will like it here!
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Hi Amit, Congrats on the new design. But what I feel is that you have done a little too much on giving this Blog a Web 2.0 Look.
There are just too many ad’s that are pushed in the right sidebar & is really not looking good & also the top Widget Bucks ad is causing the page to load really slowly. You have a nice design, But u have just put too many ads on the page & this makes the average user experience confused. There is also some css problems on the page like the fonts style is varied all across the page (Verdana on the left & Roman on the left). The header background image is not loading. The submit form is mis-aligned.
I know that this is a harsh feedback, But this is the page, that is loading for me. So u have to correct all the errors on the page & also 30 plugins are really a lot to load the WP engine !
Check this image.
http://i23.tinypic.com/2uogsvm.gif
I know… u will fix all these errors & then the design will look great.
Amit N
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Not bad.
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I am using IE. I refreshed the browser
and the header is cool
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Over all this theme is better than the previous one.. though i use the previous theme
the ads r nicely placed.. 
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Its good.
BUT
To be frank, you can do much better – Looking for more!
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The page is very ‘busy’, mate. I like the colour scheme but personally I think you need to rethink the number of banners/buttons/adverts. Place things appropriately and randomise the appearance of the ads, so they will be rotated through instead of all shown at once.
Also, I expected Amit Updates and the text below to be links to the main page and relevant sections. It makes sense in navigational terms as these are topics you are wanting to highlight.
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Much better than the old one.
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Everything looks good, except a few glitches.
> News | Tech | SEO | Blogging Tips & Tutorials – None of these are hyperlinked.
> Just below these link there is a black bar with ‘Home’ link. Only one link is looking odd there.
> in myBloglog widget, the text color is grey, which is not readable under white background.
> in Comments form, the text color is grey with white background, not readable again.
Everything else is good.
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Its very nice… my suggestion about alteration is that. The top 2-color bar which is displayed at the top just place the same below the top horizontal menu below “HOME” link it will look more nice and also the same to be copied at bottom..
Its nice though…
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Sanjai – thanks for the comments but i found a darker mix a cooler option for a blog rather than a lighter shade. The same was i specified the content section at the beginning itself so i dont think i can change it now
Meet here – can you send me the parse error screenshot?
Sharat Jaswal – Thanks for the feedback and i will work out on the font colour of the comment box which can help you out in better reading. The mybloglog widget is something iam not able to understand, because i changed all of its code with different text colour etc but still it stands the same.
Amit Nyamtabad – Since there were too many ads on the right side i have totally removed them , because i want a better user experiance and not monetising it from now. Is the header background image not yet loading? or else send me a screenshot of that.I have got a dedicated server which makes the website loads very quickly and 30plugins dont effect much though you can let me know if the loading time is still slow.
Paul – I have now added some text links in the header for better easy navigation through the posts, and the header text wont be linked as of now because i dont have something which is too much related to that description.
Sumit Bahl – As i said above to paul iam not planning yet to link them to something, secondly the home link is not alone now since many other related links are being added now. mybloglog sucks and iam not able to do anything for that though i will better just add up thumbnails option in that. Comment form is being worked upon now.
Infogle – The coloured bar would look bad in my opinion if i place it somewhere else.
Iam interested in more reviews from everyone of you guys, thanks for the above reviews.
Amit
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It’s looking great but never simple(not KISS)..white background could be nice but looks attractive now…
Also neither of your images including background are cached in browsers so little more bandwidth..
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Dont worry about the bandwidth / servers because we own our own servers at Host Brains
Also the images are cached on my browser (firefox) no idea why its not happening on your side.
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especially background image does not load when i enable cached image (i sue an add on for this may be issues with it)
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