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Previous theme - Plain Vanilla

So, you will probably notice that some changes have been made to this blog.

Previously, I was using Chetan’s Plain Vanilla theme. Loved its simplicity and its clean & slick design. But, now it was time for some change - a brand new look for my blog. So, yes’day got this one from Razvan Teodorescu. Modified it a little bit, added some images, inserted new plugins… and voila - here is the end product!

So, that’s it. Send feedback my way if ya got any. :grin:

Edit - 11.30am @ 10/07/2005
The comment system wasn’t working since yes’day. I just realized that one of the plugins that I installed was the reason behind this. Now, since I have deactivated that plugin, comment system should work. Please let me know if you encounter any issues.

Comments (19 comments)

Great new look.. liked it…
but, felt tht thr r lots of space left on both sides… i mean the text field width is short…
the background is amazing.. :)

Prasad / July 8th, 2005, 1:45 pm / #

New plugins?? :lol: Which ones?? :wink:

Poonam / July 8th, 2005, 6:34 pm / #

[Prasad] Thanks. Yeah, the width is less… but I like it for a change :)

[Poonam] Sticky post plugin, countdown plugin, contact form, subscribe to comments… that’s it. Recommend me some more…!! :-)

Manpreet / July 8th, 2005, 7:56 pm / #

ohh i can tell you tons!!! do the dunstan’s time of day…changes the time to something better like “wee hours” “during lunchtime”… you can do the search history one if you want…comment quicktags is another good one..its a one u need:!: Add more smileys!!!

Check out the Codex Plugins. Asides is another one for short posts with links. How’s that?? :smile:

Poonam / July 8th, 2005, 8:22 pm / #

cool nice template..its good.. but yes as Prasad said the width for text is a bit less.. :) .. acha yaar yeh sab plugins mere ko bhi chahiye.. :) kahan se download kiya.. punnu ji aap bhi bata do..

Manish / July 8th, 2005, 8:28 pm / #

[Poonam] Ok.. will check them out as well :D

[Manish] Thanks :) BTW, I don’t think these plugins will work on your blog. That’s ‘coz they are meant to be used only on blogs running on Wordpress. But, blogger.com doesn’t uses it.

Manpreet / July 8th, 2005, 9:37 pm / #

hey manpreet which camera do u use ? the photos in the header are damn clear and sleek

Puneet / July 9th, 2005, 4:10 pm / #

[Puneet] I use a Sony Digicam P32. It’s just a simple 3.2 Mega-pixel camera. Along with it I use Adobe Photoshop to clear up the images!

Manpreet / July 9th, 2005, 6:56 pm / #

which plugin caused the comment issue??

Poonam / July 10th, 2005, 7:02 pm / #

Manpreet / July 10th, 2005, 7:08 pm / #

interesting..i hadn’t seen this plugin before…

Poonam / July 10th, 2005, 7:28 pm / #

i got it through codex.. just now installed short stat… nice plugin.. to get stats regarding ur blog right inside ur wordpress admin console!

Manpreet / July 10th, 2005, 7:34 pm / #

with the new wp.1.5 u should already get stats on your admin…have u looked on the dashboard on the right?

Poonam / July 10th, 2005, 9:14 pm / #

arre boss… ya i have seen those stats.. but these are different… it gives u a brief snapshot of who all have visited ur site recently… for that previoulsy i used to log on to my control panel.. but not now!!

Manpreet / July 10th, 2005, 9:35 pm / #

I like the new layout, actually I always like the neat, simple and clean layout. Sometimes people want to have very fancy layout that they forget that it’s hard for other people to load the pages :wink:

Mona / July 11th, 2005, 8:01 am / #

Mona, even I like the crisp look. Fancy layouts seem to be very cluttered at times, and as you said takes a lot of time to load. So, simple design is the mantra for me :)

Manpreet / July 11th, 2005, 11:39 am / #

samajh gaya.. u cannot do much the scope is very limited in blogger.com

Manish / July 12th, 2005, 5:33 pm / #

Yeah.. wot more can free service like blogger.com provide :)

Manpreet / July 12th, 2005, 5:38 pm / #

Hey very cool template :) I really like the narrow width. I wish I could change often (I can’t because of some static pages that I have :(

Chetan / July 16th, 2005, 12:41 pm / #

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