To Change Or Modified WordPress Template?
Sometimes, were not happy with our template. Should we change it or modified it instead? I haven’t tried changing my template just like anydone does if they’re not contented anymore with their template. Let’s face the fact the template we are using is a plus factor on blogging. I’m not a guru on html codes but I understand the basics for now. Here’s the screenshot of my default template, Freedom Green is a modified and widgetized version by Tina Silva on Frank Helmschrott’s ‘Freedom blue 2.0′. Also modified from the version by Eyoung.
Personally, I won’t used this wordpress template if its not modified by Courtney Tuttle to be search engine friendly.
Since its already search engine modified and I’m using All-In-One SEO Pack plugin, I’m working on the layout design and careful on my editing. The first thing I want to change was my header. I don’t know much on photoshop, it just so happen that I’ve found a template that’s almost similar with the black and green navigation header. Its longer and wider image, from that image, I started learning editing image using photoshop. This is the one I’m currently using, the orange and black combination.
Noticed my header? It was personally made by my friend Marikenya. I really love the abstract on the right side and the mobile ebook image on the left, it blends with my layout and my blog content. Nah, let me rephrase that, the banner gave life to my blog. LOL! I’ve changed other things from this template such as post title color, sidebar title color, sidebar title background color, image on the sidebar list and the dropdown blogroll. Images were always in gif format for speedy loading.
Basically, I don’t want to change my template but modified it that suits my taste. Yes, its time consuming but modifiying your own wordpress template made your blog unique. Its sort of achievement when you accomplished the look you want. I still have things in mind to do here and that cannot be done in one sitting.
Glitch On Comments
If you’re a regular of this blog, I dunno if you noticed that the akismet widget is showing on my site again. This is to monitor my spam even if I’m not login. When this blog is in wordpress.com, I usually received a minimum of 100 spam daily. Of course, it did gave me a terrible headache when I moved to a new domain and host. They’ve followed me here but akismet still working great to handle them.
I’ll be making a comment policy soon on this blog, this post will serve the same purpose for the meantime. The blog Mobile eBooks is using a dofollow plugin, however I’ve placed a rel=”nofollow” code to articles with excessive links to avoid Big G of branding my blog as a link farm. Other articles remain as dofollow.
My blog tackles anything I came up with blogging, mobile ebooks, mobile application, ebook conversion, computer software (related to ebook) and other mobile techie stuff. All comments are moderated from the start.
I’ve installed top commentator widget last week and resets on monthly basis. I still have flaws on my template customization and its not possible that the number of comments will be shown as of the moment. Top commentators, of course are dofollow and will help my commentators increase their ranking and technorati authority plus their exposure on this blog.
I’ve also installed the commentluv plugin which I love very much on the blogs I visit frequently. However, it will not follow until you’ve reach a certain number of comments here, but the link of your latest entry is still there if you provide your web/blog url. Please be warned that on this blog, I’m looking for quality comments related to the article that will help each other accordingly. Provided that you post a quality comment but I dislike your recent entry, I will delete the link and the comment remains. What are these links? To make it clear, links from adult site, gambling or hate related site will be deleted. If you wish to tell me something, feel free to email me at ebooktechie@gmail.com.
Tagging is allowed on this blog provided that the meme is related to my blog’s contents, otherwise I’ll be making the tag on my personal blog. I also allow out of topic comments but avoid making it look like “spam”. I love comments and I hope i made myself clear. Should you have any “violent reactions” regarding the issue, let me know.
