So, I've been shortlisted for Best Romance Blog (and got a nifty button for it!), and for all the newcomers and regular readers, I thought I'd provide the five romance-related posts I sent to the panel that ended up with me on the short lists:The Secret Pearl Review
The Year in Review - My Best and Worst of 2008
For My Lady's Heart Review
The Price of Desire Review
Just the Sexiest Man Alive Review
In other news - yes, my blog does look slightly different. I decided to find a new template, yes. Partly on a whim, and partly because while searching the shortlists of BBAW nominees I came across Rebecca's Reads and discovered she had the SAME template! I guess I just wanted to find a new style.
I like my new template, in general. The pros:
- Bigger font, centred posts - clearer to read, doesn't evoke frightening "wall of text" as much, makes reviews look nicer
- Pretty, pretty colours - to be honest, I wasn't a big fan of orange, maroon, or beige (my blog's old colours) so this was an easy choice
- It doesn't match any blogs I know
- It still looks artsy and has three columns for Widgets
- Smaller columns - lots of stuff has to be trimmed or has its edges nibbled off by smaller margins, thereby looking silly (but I don't know how to change - I used the "shrink to fit" option but that does bupkiss). I wish I could widen my columns
- Can't change the title font - gaaah, if anyone here is a master of font and HTML, do you know a code to make my title Georgia font instead of the whatever-it-is square font, without offsetting all the
EDIT: This just in - fiddling with HTML for an hour does bring results! Hurrah!
i like the old one better
ReplyDeletei think it organizes everything better
things on the side looks squished
and you took out the wishlist shelf :[
it was also hard to find the comment button
the colors and the picture at the top looks better
but i liked the way the old one was organized
OMG! You changed your layout... WoW WoW WoW. It looks really cool =D
ReplyDeleteCongratz on your nomination!
hahaha... I think you're editing while I type this! The post keeps changing =P
Goodluck with the html - I don't understand any of it!
Looks FABULOUS, dahling! And wonderful news about your nom.
ReplyDeleteA trick I learned about blogs -- most are designed to look good in IE -- so if you're using Firefox or Safari, it's a good idea to double check the look in IE to see how it flies there.
xoxox
Wowsers. Different. Way different. But I like it :)
ReplyDeleteLove this layout. I use Coffee Desk by the same designer. I saw this on his site a few days ago and was very, very tempted to switch. I love the color (though I would have loved it more in pink) and the layout.
ReplyDeleteHowever, don't panic. I just started using Coffee Desk and haven't fallen out of love with it yet.
He tests all his layouts using Safari, Firefox, and Chrome besides the latest editions of IE. I use Firefox and your layout looks good. At work, where they use IE and it looked a little off. You may have tweaked it more since my two viewings, so don't go by me. ;-)
I wasn't sure I came to the right place at first *g*. I like, I like.
ReplyDeletehey sorry to cause you to change your template! It does look nice now! I didn't see it before you changed it, but I'm sure that look fabulous too lol!
ReplyDeleteCongrats on your nomination!