New Look

February 10, 2009

Its been a few days over two years since I started writing this blog and all this time it has looked the same. I started out using the Hemingway theme by Kyle Neath and really liked the way it looked …

Mrinal's Blog - Old Look

Over time though, I became quite bored of that look and I also received some negative feedback relating to how people find it uncomfortable to read white text on a black background. Also, it was always disconcerting to see another blog use the same theme as mine so I’d been planning to make a personalized theme of my own for a while. I finally got to it and went ahead and designed this new look …

Mrinal's Blog - New Look

Hoping to save some time, I sought help from my friends at Blog Design Studio to help me build the wordpress theme, who I think did an excellent job.

I’m no “designer” so please do let me know what you think of the design.

New Name

Another major change that you may notice here is that this blog is no longer called “Rags to Riches : en route to a richer Internet”. When I came up with the name it was intended to be a play on words to represent the evolution of our Internet from lame old web pages to engaging rich experiences. But, I started hating the name only a few weeks into it… I didn’t think it conveyed what I write about properly.

I would love to know what you all think of the changes and would really appreciate any feedback that you may have. Hope you continue to enjoy reading what I write.

4 Responses - What do you think?

  1. Saurabh Narula
    February 10th, 2009

    mrinal,
    this is a welcome change, the posts are well laid out now, and comforts my eyes.
    great job!!

  2. Pretty decent look.
    A few changes, if you think appropriate
    Search and Categories could be moved on top.
    TextInput fields are hardly visible.
    Some rollover effect on Navigation area :)

  3. Thank you Saurabh, glad you like it :)

  4. Chetan, thank you for the suggestions, I’ll see what I can do :)

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