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Professional Layout

By Darren On January 5, 2009 Under General, WordPress Themes

During 2009, one of my goals is to make Darren Singleton.com much more professional-looking.  The previous theme contained a vast amount of advertisements, which brought in very little income and may have put people off visiting the website.

If you are reading this post via the RSS feed, I urge you to take a look at the improved design, which is using the free WordPress theme Grey Matter by Nikolaj Masnikov.  I will be modifying the theme over time, but for now I feel that it gives the blog a much better look.

At the top left of the blog – you may have noticed the new tagline : “Blogger – Webmaster – Internet Entrepreneur”.  I also feel that this is a huge improvement over “Just one man with a blog” which no longer seemed relevant in relation to my goals for 2009.

I have planned a series of follow-up posts that will document some further changes I have made to the blog, including why I have chosen to keep certain advertisements over others.

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Mikael

January 5, 2009

Darren I really like the design except for the flashy banner you have just below the post. I can’t imagine that you’ll ever make any money from that so I would suggest that you remove it.

As for your future posts remember that they will need to provide real value to readers if you want to gain more of them. Since you currently have <20 subscribers you can’t expect to do a “I’ve changed my layout” post like the A-bloggers do. Their posts are interesting BECAUSE they’re A-bloggers. NOT because they changed their design. :)

Just a thing you can think about ;)

Mikaels last blog post..Affordable Pet Health Insurance

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Darren Reply:
January 5th, 2009 at 1:39 PM

@Mikael, Thanks again for your comments, they are greatly appreciated. I have taken on-board what you have said regarding the XY7 banner and I have to agree that it probably isn’t worth it being there at the moment.

I will act on this straight away.

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