Daily Blog Tips Has a New Look
Daily Blog Tips is approaching its one year anniversary and I felt that it was about time to redesign it. The elements from the last theme were conserved, but now the site should be even cleaner and using the overall space more efficiently.
In simple words, the site is looking just as I want it, and hopefully this theme will support DBT for a long time.
The monetization scheme was also needing an update, so the sponsors gained more visibility, with all of the 125×125 blocks being displayed above the fold now. Other changes include the width of the content column which was slightly increased (in order to keep the legibility of the content high) and the “Categories” sidebar that was moved to the left side.
The logo and template were created by a designer that works for me. My friend Brian Gardner implemented it into a functional Wordpress theme.
If you have any suggestion or find any bug please let me know and we will solve it promptly. It will probably be one day until we polish all the details, so do not worry if you see things flying around.
Daniel Scocco on September 24, 2007
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Looks great! A clean look like this should serve you well for years. And I’m glad to see your logo finally linking back to ‘home’. Now I’ll stop clicking on it in frustration.
Wow, the theme sooo slick and clean! It almost doesn’t load. I like the logo too.
Though Maybe you an brighten the rss pics. It’s too lonely up there.
I really love the new design, it looks great. I have been thinking about getting a new design made up for my blog but my budget is a little small which makes things a bit tough. Maybe I’ll have to resort to making my own theme by modding someone elses, I just wish my photoshop skills were a bit better (they are actually quite terrible to be honest).
Thanks for the nice words.
Ian, yeah I was planning to fix the “unclickable” logo for a long time already :).
Kidblogger, I might experiment with an RSS box on top of the left sidebar, thanks for the input.
The new logo’s pretty sharp (better than the old pale one). Good work.
congratulations - very professional!
Thanks Darren!
Daniel - This looks great! One suggestion - I loved how the old theme differentiated “official” DBT comments with the little image. Are you going to integrate something like that again?
Love the new theme. Looks sleek and clean, very professional :D.
Yeah I will Andrew. Just need to change the code on the comments form.
If you want to know how to customize that check this post:
http://www.dailyblogtips.com/c.....-comments/
Congratulations! Very neat, simple and professional.
Keep up the good work!
Finally what I asked you for in the last theme - Clickable logo! Very nice and neat
I think this is a great improvement over your last design. The last one worked well, but this, as you say, will keep you going for some time.
I’ve never been a fan of reflections in logos, but great job Daniel, and best of luck for the next year.
Very nice, clean theme for great reader experience. Nice work!
Congrats Daniel! The new theme loads even faster.
Great work Daniel, well done.
I agree with Sotek, “Very neat, simple and professional”.
I think that a “search” or “find” button may be useful for the search area. Most people will know to push return to do a search but some less experienced users will not. Just a suggestion.
Congrats on the new design. I love the colors, it’s very sleek! Nice improvement…
I like it, excellent work
hmmm somehow I like the old look more
Maybe it’s too white/bright for me, my eyes hurt. The white/blue color scheme make it look like those “Make Money Online” websites.
Julian, yeah a search button might help.
Nice from Thailand, there is a lot of white space on the new theme, hopefully once you will get used you like this one better than the last :).
As JohnTP noticed I paid particular attention to the load time and responsiveness, that is one of the reasons for going minimalistic (the other is that I really like clean stuff).
I love the new theme Daniel. The color scheme is much more welcoming.
Wow, looks great Daniel. I remember when you switched from the old “Fresh” theme to your now old one, haha. Seems like just yesterday
So will you offer the recently old theme up for free download now like you did the other one?
I like it… Good stuff! Always refreshing seeing a new theme.
Egon, I am not sure if people would be able to use my old theme since it was heavily customized for my needs. What do you think?
Looks very nice! Just a few thoughts, why don’t you go to a image sprites technique? It could save you a few kb in total image size and you could also do some nice hover techniques.
For example the rss buttons on the top right would look pretty slick if they got brighter when you hovered over them.
Daniel, I see what you mean. Perhaps if you went in and generalized some of the code for more of a widespread use, it might work. I can see it still being very valuable to people that could use it though. How hard would it be to go in and generalize the code?
Not that hard, give me one week or so and I will see what I can do.
Great design, Daniel. I’m toying with the idea of a more minimalist theme for my site, as well, but just haven’t found the right one yet. This is very clean and well laid out.
new theme is looking very clean and nice
I like it. Also wondering if you like the 3 column format. I have been trying different themes on my new blog and it seems the 3 column is the most versatile. Is that why you changed?
Scoot, I was already using 3 columns before. What changed is that I had 2 sidebars on the right and content on the left.
It depends on what you have to be displayed. For DBT, moving one sidebar to the left side made the distribution of the content more efficient.
I think any setup can work, even 2 columns works great for some blogs. Depends on what you want to put there.
The new theme looks really great! Very clean and professional. Great job!!
Clean and simple. But the old one give me more”DBT” feel. Keep it up
man brian does good work!!!
I liked the old theme, but this theme is also a great choose. Congratilation and keep on the good work.
Looks good. I’m a fan of simple and clean too. I look forward to seeing this one develop, just like the last did.
This looks amazing. Clean, simple and lightweight.
It’s looking great. Awesome eye candy. I like how it’s so clean and organized.
Great new look keep up the good work!
More readable and noticeably faster load time.
The submit comment button styling needs correcting, as it is taking the styling from the form inputs of just plain white (Firefox). I assume this was likely an oversight, as it is most definitely poor usability to have a submit button look visually the same as a textbox input, it is also missing a hover state and cursor pointer indicator that it is clickable.
donald, thanks for the input, fixing that.
nice design! seems to load a lot faster
I like it too. It’s very clean and simple.
My only suggestion would be to change the ‘RSS Feeds’ graphic to ‘RSS Feed’, as it only links to one feed — at the moment it seems like it might take you to a page of feeds.
I’d also move the feed count above the fold as it’s great for social proof. I think you can do away with the other subscribe buttons under the subscriber count as we’re all bloggers here and know how to extract a feed from a feedburner chicklet ;).
Mmm yeah it’s pretty fast, that’s good but I don’t like it
it’s just too clean 
It’s like the exact opposite of other problogger’s recent theme switchs: john chow and darren rowse made the switch to bloated themes, while daniel did came with a perfect example of a minimalist theme. I prefer the exact average between those 2 approaches 
Nice and clean, I like it.
It looks great. I like the fact that it is still recognizable and somewhat subtle changes from the old theme.
Not crazy about the “Web 2.0″-ish logo with the reflection, but the rest of the site is very easy on the eye, clean. I’d spruce up the comments section a bit, though it fits well with the minimalistic style of the new design.
Beautiful theme Daniel. Are you going to change your favicon? O.k how about releasing your old theme? You know someones trash could be others treasure.
I actually think it is a bit too bare and empty. The footer also seems fairly pointless and seeing it is coloured/ styled it kinder sticks out like a sore thumb.
Also maybe some more ways of finding content under the ‘popular posts’ could be an option.
Overall I do like it and while the minilist look is good and can be practicable, I personally lean towards colour and style
NICE! Very easy on the eyes and I agree with most of the others, Loads much faster now.
Nice design
neat and well designed… nice look n feel
Thanks for all the inputs!
Skelling, I think RSS Feeds is not wrong since when you click there you get an Atom feed, an RSS 0.9 feed or a RSS 2.0 feed depending on your reader :). But yeah I also thought that maybe RSS Feed was better.
Ramesh, the favicon is changed, but I think you need to reset firefox to see the new one, I never understood how come favicons are so sticky.
Jermayn, as the time goes we will ad more stuff to the theme, so it will fill the empty space.
Love the clean clutter-free look. Hopefully you won’t have animated flashy ads on the right.
Patrix, I will not :).
Very nice! I like it…
@Daniel, thanks for answering my comments.
I look forward in seeing what you will continue to do with the theme, its got potential and heaps of room to add stuff too
Congratulations on the new look, it’s look very professional.
clean and simple, but more up-to-date/modern, like it
The new theme looks pretty impressive. It loads faster than ever. Simple and Sweet, just as I like it!
do you allow others to use this theme? It looks great!