To my dear readers:
It’s been a full month with so many events that I don’t even know what to start with.
1. First the Entrecard experience which allows me to meet and read new, interesting people and their experiences. Because there are many of you that I constantly follow, I decided to offer the Guilty Pleasure Recognition to 5 blogs, on a monthly basis.
2. The Prague trip. It’s been the main reason to create the Travels category here. I hope you enjoy the reading, I’ll only publish the most exciting bits, pieces and things I think you would be interested in. Hopefully, you’ll get to live a similar journey on your own, as it’s worth every penny.
3. Redesign of website. I think the current design is not very friendly and usable. And my readers have doubled and then tripled, therefore I need you to stand and let me know your thoughts on this. I’m thinking of doing a facelift and using either Visionary or Saturn as start theme for the new interface. Either way, I’ll try to change colours and make the new design cleaner and easier to follow. Help me choose. Which of the two you would prefer? What’s your favorite color?
4. Help me with 3 above and I’ll send 100 EC to 3 of the readers who comment here. It’s not a contest, just a way to express my “thank you for helping me out with the new layout” thingie. I’ll go for a random pick up. If you have another suggestion, drop it here.
Thank you. Yours as always,
Miss Tique
P.S. EC to be awarded in 3 days.
UPDATE with results:
List Randomizer
There were 6 items in your list. Here they are in random order:
Timestamp: 2008-10-31 19:09:54 UTC
First three get 100 EC as promised. Now, because I have enough EC in my pocket, I’ll send to the other three 50 EC each. Congrats to the first 3 , better luck next time to the other 3. Enjoy your EC and Happy Halloween!
Well I must say the present layout of this website is pretty impressive according to me. And for the choice of the best between Visionary or Saturn. I feel visionary has a pleasant look and shall make it more lively. I discovered your website through entrecard. Hope to be here often.
I agree with chethan. I’m a little partial to the current layout. The only thing that I would change here (ok, the first thing I would change) is the busy pink background pattern.
If you are ready to move on, however, I prefer the Visionary theme. I think it’s cleaner and easier to navigate.
I personally would choose the visionary style. Looks more “professional, I mean the saturn style will make your site just look like an ordinary blog. Your writing is the first thing I want to give a comment to. I don’t mean the way you write or the content of the writing, it’s just the font style. If you could set it with a bigger and more attractive font then it would be nice. So people won’t feel just like reading a letter. Instead they will feel like reading an interesting book.
The second thing is the background, the white background. I don’t really like a white background myself, it looks too plain for me. Color will surely give yours more “taste”.
I like the layout and design of your blog.It is nice that you recognize 5 blogs a month. Most of us are so busy just writing articles for our own blogs that we dont find enough time to read other blogs. I think reading and commenting are the most important part of blogging.
To further improve your blog I would like to see the following:
1. Your profile on the top left bar….I like to know the person who is writing the blog
2. I dont understand what most of the things on your right hand bar mean….who are “contributors”? What is “red carpet” why dont you display the whole comment instead of the name of the person commenting. Still I dont think this should appear at the top right.
3. You have three columns for your own blog content categories, more from this category and archives. but none of them appears clearly enough. I still cant figure out your earlier posts without effort.
Yea exactly, If you could get rid of this pink background ( and say try brownish glossy one for example) i feel this blog shall look much better than the visionary theme. Well this was just an advice :)
Thank you, thank you, thank you!
Part of what you say is similar to my personal issues with this template: the background, small fonts, the hard times figuring out latest posts. You can’t imagine how much I appreciate your critics. Keep them coming and thanks again.
This is my first visit and I do like the layout and content so far.
alicia
http://todaystyle.today.com/
I’ve changed background and part of the right sidebar, included latest notes and I think I’ll stick to this theme as with proper modifications, it’s going to improve. This means that I’m still looking forward to your views and critics.
2 more days until the EC giveaways.
firstly the GPR is a great idea….Miss Tique….and will certainly lower your bounce rate…
as for your site design …I’m partial to your existing design..
however if I had to choose between the two new designs I’d go for Visionary :)
yup looks a lot better now. Anyway looks aside I like the content of your blog very much.
Thank your for the ECs. I appreciate the recognition and will put them to good use! It was quite a nice surprise.
Have you made a design decision yet?
yup, I’ll stick to the current one and modify it as I get used to working on the code. With little help and widgets I already changed some stuff (the background, added the latest posts widget, removed archives in sidebar) around and I’m beginning to like it.
I may still need to find an even better background and maybe add another page with the GPR winners …well, I guess times will tell about the rest. :)