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Re: The new theme is live!

Mike — Sun, 25 Nov 2007 01:21:40 -0000

Justin,

Thanks for the props, I appreciate it. It's still your theme, but it just has the look and feel of my old site in a way.

Thanks for it again, you really did a great job.

Re: The new theme is live!

Mike — Sun, 25 Nov 2007 01:20:59 -0000

Frank - I'm glad I didn't see you switch themes before I put this one up, or maybe I'd felt bad about doing it :)

I hope it doesn't become THE theme that most blogs use after awhile, but it is pretty nice...so I can't blame them.

Re: The new theme is live!

Justin Tadlock — Sat, 24 Nov 2007 20:39:22 -0000

I like what you've done with it Mike, and I hope all the manual labor isn't too tough on you. :) This is definitely the best use of any of the themes I've created yet. It amazes me how you've taken the layout and really made it your own.

Re: The new theme is live!

Frank C — Sat, 24 Nov 2007 20:01:18 -0000

I started using Visionary at OpTempo last week. I agree with your comments. It's good if you follow the script but it gets a bit tedious if you want to customize. Plus, having to add graphics makes it trickier to do.

I'm probably going to do some additional mods to get a slightly different look because I think a lot of people are going to jump on this one.

Re: The new theme is live!

Scott — Sat, 24 Nov 2007 11:23:09 -0000

It looks great Mike! Makes me want to redo mine....sort of...but not right now. ;-)

Re: The new theme is live!

Mike — Sat, 24 Nov 2007 02:59:55 -0000

This one does make it a bit harder. Having pictures, for instance...I pretty much have to add a 275x175 image if it's going to be a Featured story, and all of them usually should have a 75x75 to look good on the frontpage capsules. So that is kind of a pain, but I think it's worth it...for now.

Re: The new theme is live!

jclark88 — Sat, 24 Nov 2007 02:53:16 -0000

LOL...I don't remember where I got the "welcome back" plugin from but I probably saw it on another blog and stole it from them...

It almost makes me sad to see the tabbed menu because I spent countless hours figuring out how to do that exact same thing for someone this past summer. It was killer and it took freakin forever (I'm not exactly a programmer). I never did incorporate it into my blog but maybe I should have as I would have been cutting edge.

I have already seen this theme on a couple of sites but this is, by far, the best implementation of it that I've seen. Some people have a good sense of style and taste and what works and doesn't and others...well, don't.

I'm not sure I will want to use a theme that requires a lot of manual additions or changes. I blog at infrequent times so I like to be able to just write and post and be done without too much fuss. We'll see, I guess.

Re: The new theme is live!

Mike — Sat, 24 Nov 2007 02:10:07 -0000

Thanks Jason, sorry to force you to choose something else, because it is such a good theme. Part of me was worried about using it since I have a feeling MANY blogs could try it out.

But maybe there are things from it you can still use. The tabbed menu thing is really the key here...it cleans up the design so much.

A downside of it is that it's not widgetized at all, it doesn't work with it too well, so all of it is adding stuff manually. Made things more difficult, but he really has it set up nicely.

Also, I do appreciate your current design and it helped me with mine. I like your "welcome back" plugin with the MyBlogLog avatar stuff and I pretty much stole that from you :)

Re: The new theme is live!

jclark88 — Sat, 24 Nov 2007 01:46:36 -0000

Dude, it's really nice. I've been planning a redesign for my blog (not till January) and this was one of the themes I have on my short list. I really like what you've done with it. I might have to take it off my list now...but it still rocks!