Short and Sweet. After only a few months, Blog Income is on the block.
Regular readers here know that Monday night is my Internet MasterMind Group meeting – yes, skipped the ice dancing! Never mind, making up for that today with a day down at the Olympics. My friend Cheryll and I are going down early and see if we can get into the Canadian Royal Mint pavilion – that had a 7 hour lineup (no seriously)over the weekend and I hear that Russia House (as the hosts of the next winter Olympics) is pretty good too.
But I do digress. To the point. I had this site critiqued last night. It’s something we do – one site a week. The short of the long of it is that it is going to undergo a complete overhaul. Even to me it was beginning to look cluttered and there were changes I wanted to make. Visiting other blogs helps to polish and develop a discerning eye, but I had changed the theme only a few months ago and thought I could live with this one for a few more – oh say till June.
I got a lot of helpful comments from the group but the main thing appears to be the theme. This time it won’t be an overnight change. As with so many other colleagues who have recently undergone a similar metamorphosis, I will take a bit longer and will come up with something that will stand me in good stead for a year or perhaps even two.
I’m going to have some awesome people helping me – I hope you will join them. I am looking for comments, observations and suggestions. What do you like about this blog? What should be scrapped altogether. What needs to be added? Any suggestions for themes? Throw it all at me. The more the better. Together we’ll make a good soup.
I look forward to hearing from you – you awesome lot YOU!
Valentina

#1 by Des @ Affiliate Progress on February 24, 2010 - 01:19
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Hi Valentina,
I look forward to seeing the new look Blog Income Life. I guess you know best as to which ad banners get the best results for you, but I find the two at the top detract from your your own blog’s identity a little (if that makes sense?).
A slightly bigger font for your more senior readers perhaps (not that I would fall into that category of course!)
but keep the same great writing style.
All the best with the makeover,
Des.
Des @ Affiliate Progress´s last blog ..Free Affiliate Tools – Part 3 – Web Space
#2 by Valentina on February 24, 2010 - 09:37
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Hi Des,
Good points … thank you.
Actually I wanted to have those two banner ads UNDER the header, or at least below the title, but for some reason they showed up at the top!!!!
I have tried to change that but so far no joy. Ditto the font. Appreciate your feedback.
Twitter:@goldenkoi[goldenkoi]
#3 by Des @ Affiliate Progress on February 25, 2010 - 02:24
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For the font size, I know there are Wordpress plugins that can do this. I’ve never had a play with them as my themes so far have been Ok out of the box. Have you tried any of them yourself?
Des @ Affiliate Progress´s last blog ..Free Affiliate Tools – Part 3 – Web Space
#4 by Jeffrey on February 25, 2010 - 09:02
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Hi Valentina,
I seen a lot worse from the stand point of themes. As a designer of Blogs. (you’ve seen the ones listed on my site) I would say to go ahead and invest in a premium theme for Wordpress. Once you purchase a theme from someone, they will usually have many more for you to choose from, making it an easy transition to change themes. Like changing your desktop image! You may have to kick a little code around, but it’s going to be pretty seamless when you change. That way you don’t have to struggle with re-desgning, that’s really just a time killer. Get on with the Blogging!
Jeffrey´s last blog ..Blogging For Bullet Heads … Six Months Later!
Twitter:@goldenkoi[goldenkoi]
#5 by Valentina on February 25, 2010 - 22:09
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Des,
That is interesting re font size plugin. Would you know it? If not no worries as I can certainly do a search. I will be going to a completely new theme and have picked out a few that are very simple (or they look simple) … I want to dry try them first.
Twitter:@goldenkoi[goldenkoi]
#6 by Valentina on February 25, 2010 - 22:23
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Hey Jeffrey,
Good to see you here. Thank you for the suggestion. I have been hearing a lot about Thesis. Are there others that you would recommend I look into?
Twitter:@goldenkoi[goldenkoi]
#7 by Des @ Affiliate Progress on February 26, 2010 - 07:59
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Hi Valentina,
if you go to “add plugins” in your WP admin panel, and search for “font”, there are several in there you could try out. There appear to be a couple that allow the web site visitor to increase or decrease the font as they wish, which is quite nice.
It’s also possible that your new theme may give more control over this anyway, but if not there will usually be font settings in the theme’s stylesheet which you could experiment with.
I’m certainly not any sort of WP guru mind, so tread carefully!

Des @ Affiliate Progress´s last blog ..Free Affiliate Tools – Part 3 – Web Space
#8 by Valentina on February 26, 2010 - 20:29
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Thank you Des … I think I’ll experiment with font size even on the current theme and see what happens. It just seems that the size is incogruent with the rest of the site … something amiss.
Twitter:@goldenkoi[goldenkoi]
#9 by Ryan @ Planting Dollars on March 1, 2010 - 04:35
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Hey Valentina,
Exciting stuff, are you looking forward to the redesign? I’ve tried a few templates and even did HTML back in the day, but using Thesis theme for wordpress has made my life a ton easier. I would highly recommend it as a happy customer. If you ever want a second opinion of the site as its going under the knife, feel free to shoot me a message.
Ryan
Ryan @ Planting Dollars´s last blog ..Why Ideas are Like Sperm
Twitter:@goldenkoi[goldenkoi]
#10 by Valentina on March 1, 2010 - 07:49
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Hi Ryan,
Thank you for stopping in. Yes I am looking forward to the redesign. I have heard lots of good things about Thesis so definitely that is one template I will be considering. Thank you so much for the offer to help.
Twitter:@goldenkoi[goldenkoi]
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