Comments on: I Know Where You Are!

By: Fergy

Fergy — Sat, 08 Apr 2006 12:38:40 +0000

Thanks Bjorn…much appreciated nice words.
Ads – yeah i think that they are not so intrusive on the sidebar, however, i don’t get enough visits to actually make a sizeable income from it, and i would definately put the pleasure of my readers before making a few bucks.
I know most people ignore them and even don’t see them…but if my site looks better without them, then i would prob rather keep it that way.
However, what i might do is do a fixed time trial run and see how well they do. Appreciated feedback there Bjorn…

By: Bjorn

Bjorn — Sat, 08 Apr 2006 10:57:59 +0000

verdana looks good. I no longer have the impression i am reading a bad font anymore. haha.. Definitely an improvement, unless fans of your old font start blasting on this comment thread.

You might still be able to put adsense on the sidebar, reckon u might want some clicks and the spare change. I don’t like ad placements at the top of the posts near the titlebar.

One: they adversely affect the reading experience. Two: Very explicit commerical influence.

With your new No.1 Google ranking, maybe u will get a spike in traffic? haha.. If so, u can explore some other blog advertising templates, i like the style on gigaom.com, but he sells banner ads, not adsense. I don;t mind looking at his ads tho cos they r relevant and eye-catching.

By: Fergy

Fergy — Thu, 06 Apr 2006 12:17:10 +0000

Well…following a long conversation with my older version, i’ve not changed a few things…
1. The site does not change size relative to the size of the browser window, but is fixed at 730 pixels wide!
2. Font size of posts is a bit smaller.
3. Posted by text is smaller and date corrected.
4. Google search taken away, and all adsense removed.
5. Site search moved to top of sidebar.

What ya’ll think?

By: Callum Macdonald

Callum Macdonald — Thu, 06 Apr 2006 11:02:28 +0000

One of the down sides of using a variable width theme is that you lose control over how it looks on different people’s screens. For example, on my gorgeous 17 incher, it looks a big drawn out. But on my sweet little 12 incher, it looks too narrow.

A fixed width theme would give you more control…

By: Fergy

Fergy — Thu, 06 Apr 2006 10:07:21 +0000

Hhmmm…interesting. Unfortunately i can’t read my own blog as i write it…so i always know what it’s going to say before i read it! lol…however, i do get what you mean and i’ve changed it to Verdana…how do you like this?

By: Bjorn

Bjorn — Thu, 06 Apr 2006 09:54:57 +0000

regarding the fint change suggestion, it was just personal preference i guess, i just didn’t think it was readable, kinda like the default font provided by Blogger.com which i didn’t like. According to empirical research relied on by the likes of Google, anything that is related to Sans serif typeface is more readable, hmm, i haven’t explored why exactly yet but might do so after all these dastardly tests and essay over the next fortnight..