As you can tell (unless you’re reading this via RSS), I have a new theme design on my blog. This is like the 5th design change I’ve done since launching the blog. I guess I get bored of my themes after a few months. My previous theme was cool and all, I just didn’t like having the content column so narrow. It was only like 400px wide or so. While this one isn’t much wider, it is still over 500px, which gives me more room to add a 200×200 or 250×250 ad in the blog posts (if I so choose).

This theme is also brighter. No more dark colors. I tend to like white themes because they don’t produce huge glare if your computer is by a window. It’s also just easier on the eyes. Other changes include room for a 728×90 ad spot in the header and room for several 125×125 ad squares in the sidebar.

This design isn’t custom made for me. It was a free download, and you will see the link in the footer if you want to use it too. What’s weird though, is the footer.php file was encrypted, so you can’t make easy edits. They did this so you can’t remove their back links. However, anyone with moderate html knowledge can get around this by viewing the page source and replacing the encrypted code with the actual footer source codes. I tested it last night and it worked. I just haven’t played with it too much.

One of the new features I like with this design is if you view a post in single page view, it will give you forward and backwards arrows with the previous and next posts titles. It’s pretty cool for new visitors to be able to cycle through posts and see their titles instead of just a ‘next’ link.

That’s pretty much it. Be sure to let me know if you like this one better. Is there anything I should change about it? Or new features I should ad?