While collecting new screenshots for a weekend presentation I am giving about Geneablogging I realised that the Geniaus blog was looking a bit tired and that it was time for a cleanup.
Firstly I tidied up the sidebar elements by moving a few badges down towards the bottom and moving more important elements such as Search, About Me and Topics towards the top. I also deleted the list of links that was taking up space. I finally changed the copyright message that appears at the end of each post from 2012 to 2013.
I didn't fiddle too much with font colours except for the header which I changed from blue to white. I replaced my blue waves background border with plain white. Maybe this is a bit ordinary but I like it for the moment. In keeping with the family trees/leaves theme I changed the header picture I had that was an image of trees on my property and replaced it with a picture of leaves that I took on my recent holiday. I need to make this a fraction wider and then I'll be satisfied.
I'll probably tire of my new clean appearance after a while but, for the moment I'm pleased with my mini makeover.
How long is it since your blog got a tidyup?
11 comments:
It looks good, Jill. My blogs haven't had a facelift, but I have fixed some broken links and I am in the process of adding 'search description' metadata. However, I am working an a major 're-vamp' of my main Web site. It has well over one hundred pages, and I write the HTML code in a text editor, so it's a huge job.
Very nice ;-)
Well done, looks good :-)
it looks nice and fresh
Looks good! Clean and fresh.
It is time for me to do something also. Must be more than a yar since last time! Thank you for the reminder!
You've started something here, Jill... we'll all be looking at our blogs and doing some cleanup and tweaking! Very fresh indeed!
I like the new look too. As others have said I also need to revamp my blog and website :-)
It's not quite spring but I hope I have encouraged a few geneabloggers to revisit their layout and design.
Yes, Jill, you have inspired me! First and foremost, my Web site www.judywebster.com.au is getting a facelift. To help me make it more user-friendly, I'd be grateful if you and your readers could do my quick (and anonymous) survey at www.surveymonkey.com/s/SGLYVQ5. Thanks!
Clean and simple, I love it! It inspired me to go back and look at mine again (maybe I'll get it done in time for spring).
I did a clean up on some of mine about 4 months ago - changed the Wordpress theme to one that allowed drop down boxes instead of all the pages and subpages appearing in the side frame - changed the header theme pic
but can always do with more pruning
I'm always fiddling with items on the right side frame - http://hicksfamilynorthillawarra.wordpress.com/2014/08/06/awm-last-post-ceremonies-honouring-lyle-hicks-and-herbert-charles-rogers-september-2014/
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