
So, I did try the competition, and in the process I had the revelation *why* I loved Blogger.com over any other blog publishing software - Blogger gives you much more control and flexibility over your stuff (WordPress, for example, doesn't allow you to add even a simple hit-counter of your choice to your blog there! Sham!).
And, perhaps more importantly, add to that the default 'parenting' by Google to list you among its search indices. After all, everybody likes to be *counted*, be it vanity hit-counts...
Having said that, at the end it is all about usability of the system, usefulness of the info, and the presentation and end-user (you!) experience. Well, I hope this new avtar is as enjoyable as the old one. (Those couple of known bugs that there are, that I would be fixing really soon.) From software/system usability perspective, some of the elements that I liked in the new design in particular are:
- the neat menu system in the left nav bar (a typical WP feature called 'pages')
- more spread-out font-system that reduces the clutter
- a two-column layout that I prefer - with navigations on the left, better space-utilization - it doesn't misleadingly increase the 'length' of my posts - something that I am particularly sensitive about
- manages to do so in less than 800px width
- gives me enough space around images and video for captions and notes
- follows the same brown-background colour-theme that I chose with the previous template...
The base code of this new skin is from a WP theme, which I downloaded from Jackbook.com (Thank you, Jacky.). The theme was originally coded by Web-Kreation for WP. Following are my recommendations to spice up your life (read: blog) too ;-):
All the best!
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