A new look for 2008! What do you think? « The Closet Entrepreneur

A new look for 2008! What do you think?

February 17, 2008

I’m trying to be more organized and clutter free this year, so I decided to clean up this blog with a shiny new theme. If you can’t remember what the previous theme looked like, you can view it here.

Without going into great detail, I eliminated all the extra sidebar links and am showing post snippets on the homepage for easy browsing. Ultimately, I want readers to find what they need as quickly as possible, then get on with their lives. By the way, the sidebar is a bit light on useful links at the moment but will be updated soon.

So now it’s your turn, what can I do to make your visit better?

Inspiration

I wanted a retro feel – imagine Napoleon Dynamite’s home office – so I chose cork board, tacky wallpaper, and some old school Dymo embossing labels. If there is a way to incorporate a 5.25″ floppy, I will. By the way, the light bulb is supposed to be a button, like the kind you wear on your shirt… then pin up on a cork board… yep.

Of course, I couldn’t have done any of this on my own so here are all the individuals, resources, and tools that made this theme possible:

Theme Framework – Grid Focus Theme by Derek Punsalan of 5thirtyone.com
Stock photos courtesy of LuckyOliver and Roc 78
Photoshop tutorials courtesy of ERNANDE.COM, Collis, and dr.photoshop
Background pattern courtesy of Squidfingers
And last but not least, awesome feedback from Chris, Ward, Jim, Josh, and Ahmed

So what do you think?

Sincerely,
The Closet Entrepreneur

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12 Comments

Daniel

Now I know the reason of your absence for a quite long time, I did not see new post. You prepared the new design. Anyway, I like this new look…I think periodic design changing is good.

Feb 17th, 2008
TOMAS

Thanks Daniel! And yes, I did spend some time and energy on this new theme since I had to relearn some WordPress code and css styling.

🙂

Feb 17th, 2008
Chris

Hi Tomas:

The new design looks great!

Chris

Feb 17th, 2008
TOMAS

¡Muchas gracias Senior Chris! 😀

Feb 17th, 2008
mark

Nice new theme Tomas! It’s nice to switch it up and rearrange the furniture from time to time 🙂

Feb 19th, 2008
TOMAS

Thanks Mark, and congrats on all the good stuff that you’ve been putting out on Search-This! I always look forward to seeing new posts in my feed reader from your crew.

😉

Feb 19th, 2008
Mark Lopes

Excellent theme, although I liked the other also. This one seems a bit more professional. Congratulations.

Feb 23rd, 2008
TOMAS

Thanks for the feedback Mark L, I was hoping that it might strike people as being a little more professional!

Feb 24th, 2008
Josh

This design is excellent. I like the header at the top, and you’ve done a great job with the usability. It says what it is right off the bat, the categories are used in an intelligent way, and you’ve got a good combo of wordpress plugins to make this pretty usable. Props, Tomas!

Feb 24th, 2008
TOMAS

Thanks for the ‘props’ and feedback Josh! Oh, and see you at the next PACT meet up!

😀

Feb 26th, 2008
Theo Steward

I not only like the design, but the content is even better. DIY Entrepreneurship has my vote and I will definitely blogroll it on my blog about our favorite topic on revenuweb.info.

Apr 14th, 2008
TOMAS

@Theo, thanks for the vote of confidence! I’ll be making some ‘tweaks’ to the theme to make some of the more popular articles easier to find, so stay tuned. 🙂

Apr 15th, 2008