Comments on: Who Designed Your Blog?

By: www.manguonvn.info

www.manguonvn.info — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 15:34:23 +0000

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By: access-funds

access-funds — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 20:45:53 +0000

to be honest – I bought the template ( the shame of it )
and also its a new niche one.

By: Artur Kim

Artur Kim — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 23:03:06 +0000

I felt the need to design and create my own theme since I release WordPress themes in my blog.

By: Nelson

Nelson — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 21:27:54 +0000

I have “Considerably Tweaked a Free Template”. Now it’s more how i like

By: Jamaipanese

Jamaipanese — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 05:38:09 +0000

heavily tweaked free template here

By: JoLynn Braley

JoLynn Braley — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 00:08:48 +0000

I chose my current template because it was basic instead of busy and I didn’t see anyone else using it. I made several changes to it but now I would like to change my theme. I can keep working on that on my own, but it would be great to get a custom unique theme developed.

By: Chris

Chris — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 21:48:33 +0000

I tweaked a free template and got some pretty positive responses. I think I'm going to check out sandbox, and see what I can do with tweaking that for my next one.

By: Fitness Guy

Fitness Guy — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 20:34:42 +0000

I have the Mandigo template for Wordpress which actually includes a lot of customization for a template like SEO and stuff. I have customized though by changing the sidebar of my blog to be wider and moding a lot of the templates to be more Google friendly

By: Colin King

Colin King — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 18:43:59 +0000

I made my own theme. The design and layout only took a couple of hours. It was the chopping up and making the various template pages and adding in the WP coding that took most of the time, fine tuning it .

By: mla

mla — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 17:26:49 +0000

My template came from the network I blog for, and it is not what I would have chosen but it is what we have to work with … there are probably worse templates out there for my purposes.

One thing I have noticed about templates is reverse type. When I was younger I loved reverse type templates and thought they were great. As I get older and spend more hours looking at a computer all day for work and for blogging, I find myself shying away from reverse type templates because it is more work for my eyes … and over the course of days, weeks, and months, that makes a difference.

By: thisblogwillpaymymortgage

thisblogwillpaymymortgage — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 16:34:09 +0000

For this blog I tweaked a free theme:

http://thisblogwillpaymymortgage.wordpress.com/

By: Roland Hesz

Roland Hesz — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 16:02:24 +0000

I wanted to change the colour scheme and the header to match the title of my blog.
Plus I wanted to try it.

By: john - from fat to fit

john - from fat to fit — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 16:00:42 +0000

I tweaked a free theme. I haven’t tweaked it so much that you can’t tell what it was originally, but I wonder if there is a time when you tweak so much that it truly becomes it’s own theme?

By: zr5

zr5 — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 14:37:39 +0000

I tweak the free themes available. I am really loving the news theme you are giving away so I will switch to that if I win.

By: Seth Sluggo

Seth Sluggo — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 13:49:05 +0000

I designed my own theme because I couldn’t find the look of what I wanted. However, I’m finding it is a lot of work just to get the basic theme built (for instance, it took me a whole day to figure out how to get my archives link working correctly. The reason it wasn’t working is because I had a date.php and category.php page and in WP there is a page hierarcy and so those blank php pages were overriding my archives info!).

Also, I ordered some books on PHP, CSS, and Wordpress (as well as a Wacom 6×8 Intuos for PS) and hopefully after going through those books (and learning how to use the tablet), I’ll be able to continue working on my theme to add more to it. Right now it is very simple looking.

By: Ant Eksiler

Ant Eksiler — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 13:39:54 +0000

Bloggrrl, thanks for the nice words!

I designed my own blog & many others like:

kingnomar.com
robneville.net
…

By: Susan Payton, The Marketing Eggspert

Susan Payton, The Marketing Eggspert — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 13:14:54 +0000

Being new to blogging 8 months ago, a free template served its purpose. As I have gotten into the community, I’ve seen what works and what doesn’t and now have a better idea of what I want.

Plus, since my blog isn’t really making me money yet, it hasn’t been in the budget to hire a designer.

But for the new year, I’ve decided to find at least a better template and tweak it.

By: Marcia

Marcia — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 13:03:59 +0000

When I was starting my blog, I knew I wanted a unique look but also had absolutely no knowledge of CSS (and no money to hire a professional!). I chose K2 because it has such a great support forum, a resource I used quite a bit while I was getting started. It’s a nice, clean design and easy to customise, even for a CSS newbie. My final result is far from perfect, and I definitely want to have a redesign by someone who knows what they’re doing, but I’m happy enough with it in the meantime.

The downside is that, of course, everyone and their dog knows the K2 layout, so even all my customisations don’t make the site as unique as I would like.

By: Lex G

Lex G — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 11:15:10 +0000

Myself of course, check it out under my link … I do all design elements that my blog has myself …

Lex

By: Chris Garrett

Chris Garrett — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 09:20:17 +0000

I got my blog done by the nice guys at http://the449.com.