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Ah Christmas, time to give, time to receive and time to launch a new theme! First of all, Merry Christmas, I hope you had a superb time with your family and friends. This is probably one of the best Christmas ever, I got a cool RC helicopter from my dad. I still don’t know how to fly it properly but it’s still the best. I’ll post a video soon.
Anyway, without further ado – welcome to the new Carl Ocab dot com!
Pause for a minute. Have a look at the beauty and oh for those feed subscribers, just click here.
The theme isn’t as sleek as it looks. There maybe bugs crawling out there, so please help me find them and spray them out.
I’ve changed a lot of things from the old design, here is a recap:
- A wider design to accumulate all the new features and to give more space for the content.
- Observed the nofollow attribute more and added them to links to non valuable pages.
- Fixed the 3 boxes and replaced them with text, it was an image before.
- Added a featured post area so the best tips don’t go down so easily and get replaced by some of my ramblings or maybe newsy kind of posts, heh.
- Excerpted posts for faster loading, more pageviews and to kill duplicate content.
- Wrapped the AdSense ad on the homepage and removed them on single posts. I’ve found out that 90% of clicks were only coming from the homepage, probably people from the keyword “Make Money Online”.
- Blogrush wasn’t working good enough for me. For the whole time I used it on this blog, I only got 30 unique visitors from them. To start the new year, I’m trying out Entrecard, I’ve heard a lot of people like it and got a good amount of traffic from them. My space is currently empty so don’t forget to drop yours! 2 credits is the cost this time.
- I’ve added an affiliate ad in the middle of the 3rd and 4th post and replaced the AdSense ad above the footer with a private ad deal.
- I guess you can see the big RSS button below :-)
I didn’t change the colors much so everyone can still recognize the old blog from this one.
Your Thoughts
The most important aspect of a great design is what the visitor wants. At this point of time, I’m asking you. Drop your feedback and your constructive criticisms in the comments section.
Bye for now, I’m off to bug hunting!
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not bad, not bad at all
Looks great!
I like the new design Carl! Much cleaner and yes, I really like the new RSS image.
Sly from Slyvisions.com
Thanks Sly,
I was thinking, does this comment system suck? It kinda looks messy.
man this is cooool!
I’m your first Entrecard advertiser!, i guess
BTW, you should shift that entrecard widget towards the top of the page, to maximize exposure, i think
Nope. I got a whopping 6 offers after 30 minutes of posting this article. I also got 7 drops. I didn’t thought entrecard was that cool!
Anyway, what card are you there? Easyhtmltutorials is nowhere.
I’m promoting my new blog. The card with ‘PBF’ written on it. I’m using that currently.
Good luck with it, I’ve approved your ad :-)
Thanks! I’ll be waiting for a ‘flood’ of visitors!!
thats the advantage of entrecard. New users immediatly get attention. Heck, my new blog (PBF), got 10 offers within 15 minutes! Advertisers are always on the lookout for cheap blogs. The new blogs benefit though!
Good theme. It doesn’t look great in the first site, but nice!
Uh, you mean the old one is better?
Nice theme but disable the pop-up…
I will talk about this later Ruchir, this seems like a major issue.
That was really BIG! nwayz.. very nice color combination, looks really cool and presentable. Personally, I think what really important is the content of your blog Carl, this is what everybody is up to “Very Good Article”. Keep up the good KID!
Nhick
http://www.itrush.com
hey carl, are you using a plugin or something for displaying Featured Posts??
I was searching for one around the net but couldn’t find one…
nice new design. I love clean layouts!
Nice site! You gonna sell the template? HM? :D
hmm can we say layout jackage…
http://www.freshview.com/
As far as I’m concerned, I didn’t saw that site before.
And besides, I’ve seen tens of tilted logo before.
The new theme just rocks. It is way much cleaner than the previous one and easier to navigate. Much much better.
Man, more than the design is the neatness and great spacing of your site.. It reminds me of a certain website for kiddies that I couldn’t remember.. =)
Yep, I’ve been very keen on the spacing of the layout.
Very neat theme carl. Share your theme with me. haha. ;)
Hi Carl! Cool new look i like your design am working on mine too anyway merry christmas and have a nice day.
Kindly Regards,
Maher Saleh
it ;looks great mmmm not bad
It’s a great and clean template. I like it. You always have clean templates which give the reader a closer look at the post. do you pay for a designer or it’s a MADE BY ME? :)
nice job stealing the amazon.com button for your e-book spam form
Hey Nicky,
I’m glad you read my blog. The button was actually a test but you’re right I gotta change that right away.
I like your new theme. This seems to load faster than the previous one. I like it bright and it is eye-catchy! Keep up the good work!
Hi Carl! it’s a good theme! Did you do this all by yourself? I’m impressed. I suggest you post your older theme for other 13 year old bloggers to download. hehe.
keep up the good work!
Hi Carl,
This is my first time commenting on your site and I must say I was moved to because of the theme design. Its really nice. Good Job. Did you do it all by yourself? I think I need to learn theme design or something, cause I really have no control over the one I currently use. Anyway you have a nice site with useful content. See more of you later and don’t be a stranger too.
Great theme Carl! Did UBD help you design this? :)
-Mike
Design Guru Ryan is THE BEST!!!
Great design.
Keep rockin buddy!
alejandro
hi! i’m a fan (as u can see me every week here!)
actually i love the previous layout it is much cleaner,
and that what sets u apart from other blog (that’s my opinion only)
and i don’t like the new logo either
and why u remove your top commentator thingie?
it is one way to gain more (and irrelevant) comments!
sorry for that ( you’re asking me eh?)
for me it doesn’t ROCKS!
(don’t mind me, it just my opinion!)
Nice work. I like the new theme :)
It is first time I visit this blog..
Awesome….
Keep up god work and happy new year..
You have a nice looking blog here. I’ve been reading your blog a lot but i realize that sometimes u rely too much on fresh visitors from search engines. You write too little articles or much of them are guest blogged recently. With this, It’s pretty hard to bring your blog a step ahead of others. Write more articles and build more readership.