JohnTP.com Redesigned

I had been planning to redesign this blog for a long time and also had drawn a rough sketch of how I wanted the new design to look like but it was delayed due to many reasons. But after finding that many of the blogs I read got redesigned recently, I too felt that it was time for me to do the same.

I worked on the new design for a few days and finished with it yesterday and also tested it on Firefox, Opera, IE 6 and 7. Everything looks fine so far but I still have a few things to do like optimizing the CSS, removal of useless plugins and some other things to decrease page load time.

Long time readers may remember that I had a previous design with the header like the new one. New readers can see a preview of the old theme’s header below (screenshot was taken while reviewing CrazyEgg):

Instead of placing popular posts from the Blogging and Tweaks category separately on the header, I have the displayed a few of the overall popular posts from the blog and then linked to the Top Posts Page to save space.

You may also have noticed that the new theme is brown in color (I usually make my themes in blue color).

Some of the changes made in the new design

• Switched to 2 column for neater look
• moved money makers to the header
• removed Top Commentators plugin as I had lost a few advertisers in the past because of it (a better way is to link to good posts from the Top Commentator’s blog once a week so that they get a bit of traffic too along with the link)
• removed MyAvatars plugin as it was making single post pages load slowly (especially those with many comments)
• placed my pic near the logo and linked it to the about page so that new readers can easily find more info about the author
• put up some space on header to post my current activities and anything that is too short to make a post for (kinda like Twitter)

Please check out the new design and tell me what you think about it. If you spot any errors, please let me know that as well.

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