Comments on: Switching Themes: Let us Pray

By: William McCamment

William McCamment — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 02:25:02 +0000

Thanks!

It is VERY similar to my old theme. Same sidebar and everything. Just what I wanted.

By: kathcom

kathcom — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 21:54:48 +0000

I know it’s heresy for me to comment since I use Blogger and am therefore subhuman in the eyes of Wordpress users…but I went through this when my sister-in-law tweaked my template. I could no longer update anything and had to revert to the old template. She spent so many hours working on it, I don’t know how our relationship survived. I’m lucky she’s so cool.

I like your new look but I’m not sure what changed. Did you have two rows on the right side before? It looks very neat.

By: William McCamment

William McCamment — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 16:07:26 +0000

Thanks, Jenn!

I really like this theme! I know you’re on the Blogger platform, but I still think you’ll know what I’m talking about when I say that I’m finally able to use the “visual” editor in WordPress instead of having to use the HTML editor (there are similar options in Blogger).

There were a LOT of problems with my old theme that made it a real chore to write a post. With this new one I can concentrate on writing instead of “coding.” Maybe now I’ll be more consistent with my blog updates.

I worked really hard trying to get my old theme to display readers avatars in the comment section, but could never get it to work. Now it works!

By the way, if you want a global avatar that will appear in thousands of places on the net (including my blog), go to gravatar.com and upload a photo.

By: Jenn Thorson

Jenn Thorson — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 15:49:22 +0000

My favorite thing about the new setup is the switch of putting the comments link at the end, instead of the top. For usability purposes, it’s much easier.

Plus, it does look cleaner. Doing a back-and-forth comparison, I’m really not sure just WHY… but it does.

Congrats to you, Rooster!