BOOM! Yes, SmartBloggerz is back again…And for next few months its all going to be AWESOME on this blog. I will tell you all that thing later in the post.
First of all, Do you see something new this time?
Right! We did a complete makeover of this blog and what you see right now is all new SmartBloggerz which now runs on thesis framework using a kolakube skin with custom modification. I have not yet completed the work on this skin completely. About 30-40% work is still remaining and I am working with my programmer/designer for the rest of the thing to be completed as soon as possible.
Yeah, that’s great but where have you been these days?
Many of you must be asking this question and many of you already know where I was, but let me start the story for those who don’t know what I was doing in past one month. Plus I will also tell you what’s coming new this time and why I went for a makeover for this blog (the whole process) etc. So let’s start…
“Blog Not Updated From February 12th” – What I was doing?
As I said some of you already know this i.e my newsletter subscribers and friends on social media sites (facebook and twitter). You probably know that I am a high school student and the reason that I was not able to update the blog neither with guest post nor with my own content were my final school exams. I went for a break from blogging and spent that time in the preparation of exam. My main subject exams got over on 22nd march and immediately after coming from the examination center, I pulled my blog down for the makeover.
Makeover? But WHY? – The Whole Process
Previously, SmartBloggerz was using the ultimate blogging theme but later I realized that SmartBloggerz needs a little change in the design considering the immense competition gathering in this niche. Also, on little research, I noticed that sites having better design were really appealing to the commentators thus increasing the community participation.
Though the ultimate blogging theme was having the ability to act like a framework and a skin could be built around it but while everyone was praising thesis framework and it’s advantages; I couldn’t resist myself from using it on my main blog. I was already using thesis on some of my niche sites so there wasn’t a problem in understanding it.
One more thing I did – Reinstalled WordPress COMPLETELY. Previously, smartbloggerz was having many issues with its mysql database, feed and the wordpress installation was like crap. It would be surprising for you to know that when I upgraded my previous wordpress version to 3.1, no changes came into effect! That was really annoying to me and hence I finally decided to reinstall wordpress.
And man! This re-installation work was really time consuming. I thought I just had to take the backup, delete wordpress, re-install it and upload the backup. But that f8c0k*ng backup file was also corrupted, bringing me to a very strange situation. I tried installing wordpress with that backup file many times and if you are following me on twitter, you may have noticed a couple of “hello world” articles being tweeted (thanks to Google’s feedburner social promoter feature).
Then by changing the way I was doing the re-installation; I was able to successfully get the blog again with almost all the required database files. Then I installed thesis framework and uploaded the kolakube skin for further modification.
After two days of tweaking, I opened my blog again for public viewing yesterday evening. There are still many designing work pending mostly in post footer and blog footer. I hope that will be completed in next 2-3 days.
Thanks To Guest Authors + Advertisers
I would like to thank the guest authors who even in my absence, submitted their guest post. And right now there is big backlog of guest post which I will try to publish one by one on this blog.
Also thanks to my advertisers, they DIDN’T thought of dropping their ads from this blog probably because the traffic remained almost the same (ahh..suprising to me also..) throughout this time. Surprisingly, two new advertisers joined this blog as an advertiser even when there was no new content being published.
So thank you again my guest authors and advertisers.
Something BIG Is Coming…For Newsletter Subscribers!
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Premium Content? And What Is It?
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Earlier, I used to provide ‘newsletter subscribers only’ content directly in the mail..But I will now be providing it on the blog giving the subscribers a access code for it. I think this is a much better way because I don’t like typing long-long emails and then change its formatting accordingly. Now it will be easy for me to write the content directly on blog and give the access in a password protected manner.
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That’s It In This Update
I hope you will be happy to see SmartBloggerz back again and what’s coming new for the newsletter subscribers. Not just newsletter subscribers, but also normal readers will be getting good value in coming days from this blog.
I will also be trying to become a little active guest author. So if you want to guest post on SmartBloggerz, it’s the right time to take the benefits of my guest posting efforts which will bring traffic to this blog by submitting a guest post for this blog.
Do let us know your opinions about the new look of SmartBloggerz. Did you noticed the boost in speed also? And what you have been doing all these days? Use the NEW COMMENT FORM below to tell me that 😉
Woo! Welcome back! I was wondering if something had happened and you’d fallen off the face of the Earth!
Congrats on the website remodeling. It looks great! And I found it even loaded faster this time on Chrome than it has in the past. Great job!
Delena
You made some awesome customizations to the skin. 😀 Just going through the whole blog to see what you did – love it.
Good luck with everything. I just relaunched Blogussion myself. It’s crazy to get started back blogging consistently again.
There is more to come right now..I have just handed some work to my designer which includes adding hanging search box at top, some more hover effect images at front, new signup box for post footer etc. I will also be looking to completely change the footer after a week or so…I am just gathering information and inspiration for footer part.
Yeah.. it’s cool design. Congratulations for your great job. Always i am with your blog. Thanks.
I thought you have abandoned this blog… what a pity since this is such a great blog! Now that you have come back, I will visit and comment everyday! Also, wish you did with flying colors in your exam!
Welcome back and nice looking new theme.
Hi Typhoon,
Glad to see SmartBloggerz back again after a long break. New theme looks great and more easy to navigate.
Best wishes for your exams and this new look of your blog.
Its look good. Am waiting for the killer content.
You have got yourself a new subscriber, let’s see what premium content you are talking about 🙂
Pleasure having one more subscriber. I am sure you will like being in my list..I am just working to resolve with my autoresponder company how to send emails to very recent subscribers like who subscribed a day or two ago because right now it doesn’t counts those who subscribed very recently to my list as it probably considers that it improves conversions and reduces loss of subscribers that get irritated amongst so many emails they now get from marketers.
Nice design brother!! I love the footer part especially! Even I got a new design a few days back!! Thesis rocks! 😀
Great to know that..The design is still incomplete at the moment..The post footer is looking little bad to me and my designer will be arranging it in an order very soon..Also to increase social sharing activity, something nice will be added at the top…Right now some inbuilt features of this skin is disabled but they are really awesome. Unfortunately there is something that’s stopping me to use it right now on the blog and Alex, who is main producer of this skin has told me that he will doing bug fixes and lots of improvements in coming version of this thesis skin..
Hi Sushant,
The new look of your blog is amazing. Actually I wanted to ask about the modifications you make to your theme if they are easy for a novice like me who doesn’t know anything about programming or designing…
Please let me know so I can get the thesis framework too… 🙂
Thesis framework is not hard to understand..I have understood properly now what hooks are all about; just a little bad in css and coding (as I haven’t got any training for it). But there are many thesis tutorials for whatever hack/customization you are looking for. It depends on how your brain works towards this kind of stuff. If your brain likes brainstorming on technical things then it will help you learn better but if you like easy things then thesis is not for you unless you are ready to hire a designer who will do the complete thing you want.