Daily Blog Tips Redesign

Daily Blog Tips is featuring a new design. This theme was created by Brian Gardner, a top notch web designer specialized in Wordpress themes. Brian has a great collection of free themes and he also designs custom themes.

The look and feel was conserved, but the new theme is wider and cleaner. Many details were changed, including the sidebar, the footer and the fonts. The objective was to make the blog navigation easy while letting the readers focus on the content.

We have also added an “Archives” page where you will be able to see all the posts, month by month. Many people like to browse through archived posts on this way so it is a good addition.

Update: It is always tricky to make a website run smoothly across different browsers. Let me know if you see any bug on your browser, I will post a link thanking all the bug hunters.

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38 Responses to “Daily Blog Tips Redesign”

Raj on April 9th, 2007 9:19 am

wow Nice and Awesome Design.

Raj
Leftblank on April 9th, 2007 9:20 am

Nice, very nice. Too bad it’s too wide to use with a 800 wide reso though, I enjoyed reading your website using only half my monitor
Leftblank on April 9th, 2007 9:23 am

What I forgot to ask is; is that archives plugin available for download? It seems like a nice way to keep some of the archive functionality without asking the users to look through all the post excerps - it might get a little long though.
Brian Gardner on April 9th, 2007 9:40 am

Daniel, was a pleasure working with you, and I can’t wait to see all of the things you plan on adding with the additional space! Thanks for the opportunity!
Roberto Alamos on April 9th, 2007 9:50 am

Nice re-design and good to see that you have added an archives page. Mmm I believe the email subscription link should open a pop-up window when clicked instead of redirecting to a whole new page, because the feedburner subscription page doesn’t have any kind of dailyblogtips.com customization, therefore the user may well get confussed.
Bes on April 9th, 2007 9:50 am

Thanks for the archives; it helps a lot! Before I had to keep pressing “Older posts” link.

Good job Brian!
Daniel on April 9th, 2007 10:16 am

Roberto, yeah I still have to figure how to optimize the subscription process. I am thinking about creating a page just for the subscription, with a badge for all the RSS readers and an email box.

I will try to do that soon, thanks for the feedback.
Daniel on April 9th, 2007 10:17 am

Leftblank, yeah you can find the plugin on on this link:

http://www.sporadicnonsense.co.....chives-21/
Leroy Brown on April 9th, 2007 11:28 am

You actually made me click through from Bloglines to check it out. The new look is very clean and simple - just the way I like it.
Lilly on April 9th, 2007 12:39 pm

Very nice….
Shawn Blanc on April 9th, 2007 1:46 pm

Site re-designs can be tricky. This looks good. Fresh and clean, but still familiar.
Daniel on April 9th, 2007 1:56 pm

Thanks everyone for the feedback. Also feel free to mention stuff you do not like, or stuff that you would be willing to see on the site that is not present yet.
Eli on April 9th, 2007 8:38 pm

it’s quite similar to the old one, but still a LOT better, mostly it’s light instead of dark
Lovedeep Wadhwa on April 9th, 2007 9:23 pm

neat theme…and the site loads much faster than before.
spark on April 9th, 2007 10:04 pm

great! it look’s more friendly, but there are some problems in opera:

spark.mrtech.ru/wp-content/uploads/2007/04/commentform.gif

spark.mrtech.ru/wp-content/uploads/2007/04/verticalmenu.gif

there are the same problems in firefox.

I really like themes that are made by Brian Garbner, and I use one of them, but I’ve made many changes!
Daniel on April 10th, 2007 1:52 am

spark, thanks for pointing this out, we will try to fix it as soon as possible
Nirmal on April 10th, 2007 3:20 am

Nice theme…
Rokets on April 10th, 2007 3:34 am

Nice, but on my side of the world left side of your blog is toooo much on the left
Daniel on April 10th, 2007 3:51 am

Rokets, what resolution are you using? I think you get that “too left” effect on 800 resolutions
Rokets on April 10th, 2007 4:51 am

Yes Im using 800x resolution, im to used to it now
Daniel on April 10th, 2007 5:11 am

I will see if I add a margin even for the lower resolution, thanks for letting me know.
Sam on April 10th, 2007 6:58 am

It needs a left margin or some padding on the articles. When the window is small it’s smashed against the edge, just too close.
Shankar Ganesh on April 10th, 2007 7:02 am

Daniel, the theme looks good, but I have a suggestion: Can the “Daily Blog Tips” Logo be made clickable, so that it will reach the homepage when clicked?

I’m used to such a habit of clicking to reach the homepage of many websites.
Daniel on April 10th, 2007 7:38 am

Alright the left margin should be fixed even for 800 resolutions.

Shankar, thanks for the suggestion when I have time I will make the logo link to the homepage.
Shankar Ganesh on April 10th, 2007 7:39 am

You’re welcome
Rokets on April 10th, 2007 8:07 am

Its ok now
spark on April 10th, 2007 8:28 am

2 Daniel
It’s much better now!))
Enblogopedia on April 10th, 2007 10:16 am

Nice theme Daniel, I`m using one of Brian`s public themes but with some modifications. This guy is very talent and I like his themes.

I can’t see any thing wrong with the design..but validating the XHTML and CSS would be nice
Nick Ellis on April 10th, 2007 12:51 pm

Daniel, I think the new design is great, congratulations!
George on April 10th, 2007 1:31 pm

Daniel,

Man you have changed themes quite a bit this year. I like the new theme. I am not sure if I like it better or the same as your previous theme.

It does look nice though.
Daniel on April 10th, 2007 1:44 pm

George, yeah I have, although this one was just an improvement of the old one.

By the way I will be released the my old theme as a free wordpress theme, hopefully later this week.
Maki :: DoshDosh on April 10th, 2007 4:34 pm

I thought the new theme is much nicer than the old one..

Customized blog designs are great for any blog.. I should really get one for Dosh Dosh too.

Just wondering.. Why did you a footer link back to Brian?

I know its his design but I thought if you paid for it, it should probably not be necessary.

Or are you just being nice?
Daniel on April 11th, 2007 2:36 am

Maki, I guess the footer link is a normal feature for designers. Check Chris Pearson’s themes, all his custom designs carry a footer link also.
George on April 11th, 2007 5:49 am

Maki,

Most designers do that, even with websites. It’s one of the ways they get traffic.

Depending on the agreement you make with the designers, you can usually remove the link. However, keeping the link can help you build a better relationship with the designer, which is always good.
egon on April 11th, 2007 6:10 am

I like it, Daniel. I look forward to when you release the old theme.
Maki :: DoshDosh on April 11th, 2007 1:32 pm

What I do when I purchase custom site designs is to credit the designer in the About page instead of leaving a footer link.

I guess it depends on what kind of arrangement you have ..
Bes on April 12th, 2007 7:30 am

I just remembered something that I forgot to ask earlier.

Have you thought of how the “Keep looking” text, at the bottom of the home page and navigation pages, will affect people [because of usability], as some people might not be used to seeing those words, or do you think because of the popularity of WP blogs, people who are coming to your site should already know how WP works and thus will find that text normal and not confusing?
Daniel on April 12th, 2007 1:48 pm

Bes, I agree that alghouth “keep looking” is pretty intuitive maybe “older posts” or “previous posts” would be better.

I will change it.