Presenting ContentWise v2

After a few days of work I have decided to put up ContentWise v2 which is based on TechnoBlue’s Style for TripleK2.

In the first version of ContentWise, I had given more important to content and in increasing my pageviews. Infact it worked well and I used to run out of bandwidth easily.

So this time I tried to decrease my pageviews a bit by removing the header navigation I had earlier.

Some of the main changes in ContentWise v2 :

moved Menu to sidebar
moved Subscribe buttons to sidebar
added a post divider
increased width of Content column
sidebars on both sides
tweaked for AdSense
fixed many bugs
updated to the latest stable version of K2
implemented
added rotated Refferal Units on header (not rotated yet)

Note: I am still testing the new design and have not optimized it for IE yet. Since I upgraded to IE 7, I could not check on IE 6.0.

I would like everyone’s opinion on the new design. If you still see the old theme, please clear your browsers cache.

And please do report any bugs you may come across. I would love to hear your suggestions too

Update: I reverted back to the first version of ContentWise. The new design will be back after I fix the problems it has with IE 6.

I provided a screenshot below (click to enlarge) of the new theme for readers who has not seen it in action. Please let me know if you have any suggestions.

ContentWise v2

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Posted on November 7th, 2006 | Category: General |

18 responses so far,

Ashok

November 7, 2006 at 10:00 am

This theme is far better than earlier one. Earlier one was very much cluttered.

Andrew Grant

November 7, 2006 at 1:05 pm

Nice, it’s a lot cleaner.

You need to turn the top left logo into a link to your homepage though

XhacK

November 7, 2006 at 2:56 pm

congratulations!!
it`s very nice and smooth!!
i dont know if u know what`s the problems with IE6 users..
and since that i dont use IE, i have IE6.
and this is a list of the problems:
1-the right sidebar appear after the last post in the index page and after the comments box in the single posts,but with no problems with the table and the borders.
2-the left sidebar has alot of problems and also the header check this images.
http://members.lycos.co.uk/xhackfiles/problems.jpg
3-and since u have problems with the header and the resizing process check out the footer:
http://members.lycos.co.uk/xha.....blems1.jpg

hope i helped u
sorry for my bad english

Peter

November 7, 2006 at 3:55 pm

Hello, you know i am every day on your site and finally good you reboot your design.

The first i can say that now your page looks like service page not a blog page. For me this is minus because your site is a blog and that is a good thing.

Besides that, maybe i am wrong in that the page layout looks nice. I would change the top left and right borders to normal.

About rotate header i can give you link to plugin that make it work with wordpress.

In the end i think it is much better that the last one.

JohnTP

November 7, 2006 at 4:09 pm

XhacK sent me a few screenshots in IE 6.0 and I found that the new design looks completely messed up in it. And since more than 30% of my visitors still use IE 6, I will revert to the old design till I fix the problems.

The sad part is that I upgraded to IE 7 and no longer have IE 6

JohnTP

November 7, 2006 at 4:15 pm

Peter-

I would change the top left and right borders to normal.

Did you mean the sidebar borders?

Also, do you have the link to the Ad rotator plugin for WordPress?

XhacK

November 7, 2006 at 4:39 pm

hi John..
hope this plugin be useful..
http://wp-plugins.net/plugin/adrotator/#plugin_291 !!!
see ya

Amey jahagirdar

November 7, 2006 at 4:59 pm

Well, it’s doesn’t look grt as such , well your adsense positioning or any other ad positioning is also messed up.

JohnTP

November 7, 2006 at 5:03 pm

XhacK- Thank you
Amey jahagirdar- Did you try checking in Firefox and Opera?

Peter

November 7, 2006 at 5:11 pm

direct link

http://blog.taragana.com/index.....namically/

Navjot Singh

November 7, 2006 at 7:04 pm

The current v1 theme does not display properly in IE6 too!

But only main page is buggy…single post pages are ok!

Check the screenshot:
http://img364.imageshack.us/im.....lemrg4.jpg

XhacK

November 7, 2006 at 11:19 pm

what!!!
Navjot Singh u r right, there`s mistakes with borders
but the the far right sidebar is ok with me..
anyway i can see and read the content with no problems..
john talk to me in googletalk to give u a full screenshot and tell u the problems!!