T his little site has been doing very well for itself since it started almost 4 months ago, and in the spirit of continued growth, it’s about due for an upgrade. In the next month or so there are going to be some big changes around here, and hopefully they’ll vastly improve your reading experience!
What We’ve Got At The Moment
At the moment we’re running on a modified WooTheme. It isn’t modified very much in all fairness, it just has a few tweaks here and there for things like custom post images which aren’t built in by default. The problem is that we haven’t got enough space. There’s no real room for advertisers, or a way to segment the navigation into the 4 main categories of things which I write about, or a way to feature popular posts on the homepage.
In addition, this is more of portfolio theme with a blog, rather than a dedicated blog theme. In short it’s been great while it’s lasted, but we’ve now outgrown it and need something a bit more suitable.
What’s Coming Up
Over the last couple of weeks I’ve been working on a brand new design for the site which is almost finished (see screenshot below). Once it’s completed I’ll be developing it and integrating it with the current site, then ad spots will become available through BuySellAds for around $5-$20 per month.
That’s It!
Let me know what you think of the design so far, I’ll have more news coming progressively over the next couple of weeks and will most likely ask some of you to test out the new site to give me some feedback.
Looks really good man, and it matches the Lyrical Media site, stylewise anyway.
You better have new content daily because with a site that good i am going to be here every day!
Thanks for the kind words guys!
@Simon – I’ll do my best to publish as often as possible but it might end up being closer to 3 times a week – Mon/Wed/Fri (or similar)
Looks like a bright, cheerful upgrade that will suit your blog very well!
Looks good. looking forward to seeing it in action.
The redesign looks fantastic. I really need to get back on track with mine. I use a modified premade theme as well although I’ve changed mine quite a lot. But having made several WP themes from scratch I feel like I’m cheating.
Can’t wait to see the finished product.
Can’t wait to see the new site. Looks great. Maybe, after I sharpen my writing skills more, I can do a guest post.
Looks great, can’t wait to see it when it’s live.
Stellar work as always! Can’t wait to see it live!!!
Hey mate, the redesign looks great.
Good luck with it.
Love the new look for the site-very cool indeed!
=D
I love what I’ve seen of the new design! Very nice :D
Now… when’s it coming? Gimme a date and time so i can be here waiting to see it switch over!
Very nice indeed! I look forward to seeing the rest of the site when it goes live.
Looks promising!
Like the design. Great spot for the main targets at the top, the 4 blue buttons. Gets noticed right away. Good placement for smaller ads. Overall, a nice clean look for a professional business website targeted at a younger generation. At least that’s the first impression that I receive. I like it.
Hey John,
Overall I like the design but one suggestion. The *J in the box comes off as bad kerning against the “ohn” next to it. What if you try overlapping the “ohn” over the box that the *J is in to kern it as it would be normally?
Thanks Ben, I’ll give that a go :)
Hows the design comming along?
The theme you have is nice but is over used on the internet. I have seen it 5 times today which is what reminded me of your redesign.
Simon
Nice, kinda looks like http://www.tutorial9.net/
That’s pretty handsome, awkward.
I really like the new design but (I don’t know why) I kinda like this one better