Installing A New Theme

I’m liking this new theme…but I read it via rss so not a big deal :).

I wondered how long it would take you to catch up with the others.

Lookin Good.

Lookin’ sweeeeet.

Hmm I’m sure your old trial one was a lot better. Will wait it out though to see how it ends up!

Looks similar.

The colors are too dark for me.

http://microformats.org/ design is sooo awesome

Mike

Ehm, the way it is right now… i don’t really like it, hope it changes.

and like guk said, RSS ftw.

I know the feeling. It seems like every day I’m changing themes!

Similar layout, I find the new gradient a bit heavy on the eye.

I really like this new theme, great stuff. Never posted here before but visit daily. Great site!

It seems like a pretty amateur version of a 2.0 site, a bit tacky to say the least.

I like it, its alot more cool to the eyes than your other one. Im curious what is going to be in the marketplace and friends post.

Also thank you for making it so pressing tab goes to the submit button, having to scroll down each time was anoying.

I really like it. But it’s a little to wide and doesn’t fit my screen (1024×768). Hopefully it will be changed.

Looks really good. Nice work.

looks very good and better .. simple and beautiful

some title text on the main page is all squishified on the main page.

I think is looks a little( a lot ) amateurish, almost like something one would find in the Digital point forums where people sell their non coded psd files for 5 bucks.

it just seems a little clunky and such.

oh and I’m using Safari , incase you want to know what i’m viewing it through.

I really like it but it’s a little to wide and doesn’t fit my screen (1024×768). I hope it will be changed.

Looks pretty nice…. old theme was awesome to though, nice n simple. Still, nice update.

I dont like the 2 blocks above the first post. Seems like you are giving less important stuff prime real estate.

Agree, things are a bit dark

More like web 1.5

Too much scrolling? I dont think so. I think its bad position for those blocks but its not ‘too much scrolling’ unless your using a 8 inch monitor or something

And I think the old logo looked nicer but the logo in the footer looks cool.

Hey I like this man, it is really cool. You have a market place also. Well done man.

Are you sure you have 1024×768 because thats my resolution and I have at least half an inch of “white” space on each side.

What happened to being able to press tab to press submit?

Looks good, I like it. Finally don’t have to zoom in a few times just to be able to read the comments lol

umm I totally lose the right side of the page

http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=1308162118&size=o

Yeah I agree, the two blocks above the post and sidebars… hmm, I think it would look nicer without them. Also this site used to fit my screen perfectly… now it stretches it.

umm the whole right side column is off my screen

http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=1308162118&size=o

damn I’m lovin the new theme

It does look a little wide. I need to scroll left & right on my 1024 X 768 monitor. it’s very rare that I view a website that doesn’t fit this resolution.

The far right column is all-ads. I have read that you make more money by placing the ads column on the inside and the navigation on the outside.

I like the big header and footer. The RSS feed could use an ad or two without hurting anything. Otherwise, it looks great.

i dont like it dude…. it’s too goofy/bulky with weird shadows and borders.

The “friends’ posts” section is currently expanding outside the “box” because the titles of the posts are wrapping.

IMO, I think there are some nice features on this theme but from someone of your experience/stature I would expect more. It seems reactionary to the new designs from ProBlogger and John Chow yet it doesn’t do anything to stand out.

I’m a little disappointed with this new theme Shoe.

Major downgrade. Might want to check out the guy that just re-did John Chow’s.

looks sharp. i like the darker background.

I really liked your “search” option before and I don’t see it anymore. Can you put it back please? Also some minor font formatting issues.

A few tweaks needed obviously, but generally looks a lot better.

This new theme rocks like web 2.0 mainstream

I dont believe shoemoney is worried about monetizing this blog, too much.

I totally disagree,this theme looks alot more friendly and easy on the eyes than chows

Trying to hard to be 2.0 with the bad gloss and what not. The old theme was much better.

I totally agree with you, dude. The weird shadows are making me feel as if I am in a haunted house with ghouls n’ ghosts. I am feeling very confined by these borders too, they are definitely weird in that way because it feels like the text is enclosed in a box or something. Those WEIRD shadows, man… those shadows…

Too wide for me as well, using ie

The friends post thing is cool..

I like it a lot. Two thumbs up.

I like it. Dont forget to bring back the comment count for each post

I really like it Shoe, except the font in the header that “Shoe Money” is written in. It just seems way too old-fashioned compared to the font you had in the old header.

And your footer says “lastest q&a”. Otherwise it looks fabulous! Nice job.

I love it… damn, probably the best layout I have seen in a while.

I like it. Couple of suggestions tho Shoe…

1) The font is too small. Make it a bit bigger.
2) In Firefox, the heading text isn’t bold, and the body text doesn’t have the same “warmth” it has when viewed in IE (looks ok though). May want to investigate the former, and look into a different font for the body.
3) I’ll bet if you do some eyetracking, you’d find that almost no-one sees the AzAds on the side. All the stuff on the far right (your advertising stuff) looks too much like what it is. Some theme design to make it look better might be in order. And finally
4) The links on the BlogRoll are too dark. Lighten them up a bit

Hope that helps a lil.

Pete

Looking forward to the final launch of the new theme.

Seems like so many people are redesigning their site this time of year

It looks better than the old theme. You did a great job !

I agree with KJ, SM doesn’t seem too wrapped up in monetizing this site.

Make the font a little biggerm too small

Nice radio show feature at the bottom. Haven’t heard any of these yet, gna check em out.

Seems like a great improvement

Its a hell lot better than problogger’s ‘professional’ template and john chow’s ugly template

It’s a lot of work changing themes and optimizing for them, I just spent ll of my Sunday and I’m about to go back and tweak more in my new theme. But my blog has grown and I had to accommodate it - so I’m happy for the changes, no matter the workload - Good Luck with it all!

I’m sure its hard tweaking and changing themes, I know because I went through a lot myself. I am still not happy with my current one.

Nice looking layout but the font could be bigger making it more readable

Dude where’s the search box?

I read it through RSS too so I don’t really mind.

Haha, I love it how Shoe just starts messing around with his theme and doesn’t really give a shit if it looks funny for a while. Very refreshing in this new age of bloggers pretending to be professional magazines:)

I think he is talking about how it use to say “41 comments” or however many there is below each post.

Pretty cool plugin and doubly impressed you wrote it yourself. Planning on releasing it?

I have a 13″ laptop and it’s really small, it used to be small but not its even smaller.

I also want to change my blog theme :p

I am looking forward to see shoemoney.com new theme.

waiting anxiously

yuck. someone needs to learn how to use the gradient tool.

cool man look forward to seeing the finished product.

I love the way it is now — i like the “flat” 2d style, i think it rocks. The new style breaks everything up into blocks that are more noticable, which i dont like, reminds me of them old site managment cms things. Sorry

Seems like all big bloggers are updating theme.

Just checked the new theme and it doesnt look much different but more proffesional.

Actually, I kind of like it. I think you should use the old logo though and double check some of your font sizes because certain things are hard to read (72 People have something to add whats your take) etc

I kind of like chows new template

hes a gagillionaire

wow, writing plugins!

Ooooh, burnt:)

All good again now:) We just need patience:)

i think its the introduction of dark blue. i’m trying to do the opposite with a brand right now…ditch dark blues and greys in favor of more lively blues and white.

Hey Shoe, wise move to put the post links to recent/popular at the top. Lookin’ good man!

I thought he said he’s still playing with it……

I agree, Chow’s is very ad-oriented and the meat of the site (I use that term loosely) is cowering over in the dark corner

Yeah, it is the thing to do at the moment amongst the a list SEO/SEM/problogger crowd. Wonder why?

Every time I work with a new theme something gets goofy. It’s fun when a new theme works tho.

Hi Shoe, love the new theme. Looking forward to its release!

Considering that most 2.0 websites can’t even get close to 1.0, I would say 1.5 is pretty good

Wow…
Looking good..

Hah yea - looking GREAT since you ended up buying it right?! Check earlier posts… :S

This is alot of work. Do you still enjoy coding? Sometimes I find myself getting really frustrated with tweaking templates but in the end it’s worth it.

I think the new design is nice but old one stick to eyes and i simply love the simple design.

I just noticed no link on Shoemoney logo? Why or it is not there by mistake

It’s becoming more web 2.0

Also, like stupid 3gp posted, you need a home link on the top left shoemoney logo.

just being super picky but is the comments font different than the rest of the site?

looks good!

Your new theme rocks. BTW i have already paid Unique Blog Designs for a new theme for my blog. Lets see how they do. I know they did excellent for you so that they would get more recommendations from you. U r a big man offcourse

Im loving the new look. Its making me want to upgrade mine.

Hi all!

Very interesting information! Thanks!

G’night