What I have is never enough for me it seems, it has only been 2 months since I last switched to a new theme and here we go again. And of course I’m going to try and explain why I’ve done this right now.
The previous design was pretty popular and I liked it a lot as well, however, there were some issues with it. Ginza (the name of the previous design) doesn’t support IE7 which unfortunately is the most used browser among IE users on my blog. 23% of my readers use IE, and out of those 23% IE7 is the most used browser. And a blog design that doesn’t have support for a browser with that many users just isn’t good, it’s very hard to convert someone to a loyal reader if he/she can’t read the blog. [click to continue…]
As you might know, yonasu.com recently went through a pretty big design change. That design change was pretty popular and I got some really nice feedback for it. However, that design ended up being too complicated, too time-consuming and just not wide enough. I’m becoming more and more interested in photography and video and I want to be able to share all of that in a bigger resolution than the previous 618 pixels. Posting took a lot of effort before too, as I used three different custom fields, I had to manually create 2 or 3 thumbnails for each post. The good thing about the previous layout was being able to show more content on the front page. That was very ambitious of me, but something I couldn’t keep up as I had to post a lot to make it look active (it just wasn’t possible while working 5 days/week with a pretty bad schedule). [click to continue…]
