Sunday, June 25th, 2006

Free Blogger Templates: The “Definitive” List

Despite the rather negative stance of many bloggers against Blogger (or Blogspot) given its many limitations and uhmm… spam blogs, a large number of bloggers still use Blogger - a service which is pretty effective for many purposes, and is ultimately free.
This, of course, is reflected by the considerable number of Google searches coming this […]

Wednesday, June 21st, 2006

More Drupal 4.7 Themes

If you need more Drupal themes than are provided at the Drupal CVS, the Drupal Theme Garden, or even the Drupal theme generator, you can now check out coffee.geek.nz’s Drupal template repository.
Over there, various web templates from sites like Open Web Design have been ported to Drupal, but given that some of these templates were […]

Tuesday, June 20th, 2006

Drupal 4.6 Themes: Feature Comparison

Over at adminfoo.net, there’s a feature comparison between the various Drupal 4.6 themes available at the Drupal theme repository. I’m not sure how many of you Drupal bloggers already know about this resource, but due to my lousy search engine skills, I only recently discovered it myself (even though it’s been published since like forever). […]

Friday, June 9th, 2006

WordPress: 7 Interesting Three Column Themes

I’m a fan of three column themes since I feel they allow more space for navigation, categorisation and of course, advertising. But they have the downside of making your blog seem more cluttered than it should be, and have been rumored to have lower overall CTR (clickthrough rate) on adverts compared to two column themes.
Actually, […]

Saturday, June 3rd, 2006

Minimalism: Its Downsides or Why I Should Redesign

Yesterday, we talked about what minimalistic blog themes are, and how beneficial they can be. Today, we’ll look at their downsides - obvious as they may be to most bloggers.

They Just Aren’t Sexy
It’s very, very rare that a minimalistic blog theme comes out looking great, especially after bloggers dump all the usual “sidebar” stuff (or […]

Friday, June 2nd, 2006

Minimalism in Blog Themes: The Benefits

Minimalistic themes were once known as the “poor” man’s solution to efficient blog design. Either that or you would have to be a plain text-obsessed maniac to implement a minimalistic theme. At that time, an efficient blog design was expected to not only be excellent in the accessibility context, but also be peppered with image […]

Wednesday, May 31st, 2006

Sidebar vs. Above-Bottom-Fold Blog Designs

For most bloggers, when blog designing comes into the picture, one key question is always pondered upon: How many columns should my blog theme have, or rather, how many sidebars should it have? In the past (where past isn’t really that far back), most would answer either 1 or 2 sidebars, with perhaps a couple […]

Sunday, May 28th, 2006

Free Well-Designed Blogger / Blogspot Templates

Blogger / Blogspot is such a popular free blog platform / host that all of its default templates, though well-designed, have already reached the “boring, been there” status. This is compounded by the fact that good Blogger template designers are few and far between.
So, it’s nice to see that Gecko and Fly are distributing some […]