Fresh new look for My World

If you're a regular reader ( and not reading this in a feed reader) you would have obviously noted a change in appearance of my blog. - It's been a while since I last [refreshed my blog][1] . My World had been running on the absolutely gorgeous (well, IMO anyways) SoDelicious2 theme. I even had a mini "[contest][2]" to decide who would get the spots for the gallery links. So why the change then ?

Well nothing in particular, just that you know, you have to keep things changing (OK not \that\ much) to it look fresh. I'd been planning for a theme change for a bit now, but was too lazy to scope out which would be good. And then just yesterday I stumbled onto

[Theo Jones' blog][3] and was just blown away by [his theme][4]. And the best part was that he had released it for all, and integrates well with the social networks I frequent on (well, except that the last.fm records plugin is \slightly\ broken but doesn't affect the blog looks at all).

What I really liked about the theme was that it was clean, I mean realy \crispy\ clean, no distractions, no annoying popups or ads ( yeah I got rid of InfoLinks and AdSense - which didn't do much and I didn't bother about anyway). Surprisingly, the lack of a sidebar didn't bother me - I generally stuff up the sidebar with \ahem\ goodies but.. yeah I guess I fell for the clean look. I'd prolly do ever-so-slight changes (for one, rename that, err, "Rotating block" to something else). Probably add few of my links, and a blogroll to the end as well. Though I've received fairly OK response over twitter & fb on the theme (most of it being - its way too clean/looks like a newspaper) but what the heck - I'm gonna use this theme for a bit.

Comments on the theme/how further are always welcome.

[1]: https://sathyabh.at/2008/07/01/my-world-gets-spiffier/ [2]: https://sathyabh.at/2008/07/15/the-my-world-comment-and-win-contestwell-sorta/ [3]: https://theojones.net/ [4]: https://theojones.net/tj-clean-wordpress-theme/