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Re-Designed: Nuri

July 23, 2022
Although the original template looked a bit confusing, as I worked on "Nuri", I liked it so much that I ended up making 2 versions of it. One version has an image background, and in the download folder there are a few more backgrounds to choose from. If you want to change the image that is currently on the theme with one of these, or ind…
Re-Designed: Nuri Re-Designed: Nuri Reviewed by Elif Ayiter on July 23, 2022 Rating: 5

Re-Designed: Sugar

July 23, 2022
This is a re-design where where very little was tweaked, to the extent where I am rather hesitant to even title this a "re-design": The original creator had used a very nice serif font called Lustria, and initially I was going to keep this. However, when I tried using it for the logo typography in a large point size it lost some of its…
Re-Designed: Sugar Re-Designed: Sugar Reviewed by Elif Ayiter on July 23, 2022 Rating: 5

Re-Designed: Legenda

July 18, 2022
I must admit that I am rather proud of this tweak. The before and after screenshots below will hopefully show you why. This is a versatile magazine theme with lots of widgets that was structurally disjointed. There were the nice black title boxes but they weren't doing enough to pull the whole thing together. I added thick black horizontal str…
Re-Designed: Legenda Re-Designed: Legenda Reviewed by Elif Ayiter on July 18, 2022 Rating: 5

Re-Designed: Flashnews

July 17, 2022
A magazine theme that comes with lots and lots of different widgets that you can fill with different labels. Very very nice, actually. The major issue was the lack of structure which I tried to fix by adding long horizontal strokes that join the contents of the main area to the sidebar. And another thing that helps bring things together is the wi…
Re-Designed: Flashnews Re-Designed: Flashnews Reviewed by Elif Ayiter on July 17, 2022 Rating: 5

Re-Designed: SportsMag

July 15, 2022
SportsMag, once I added structural support elements to it is one of the nicest magazine templates I have seen. What I did with this one was add quite a few strokes - solid 1 pixels for the main separators and dotted 1 pixels as title dividers on the widgets. I extended these strokes all the way to the edges of the coulmns in order to give a much n…
Re-Designed: SportsMag Re-Designed: SportsMag Reviewed by Elif Ayiter on July 15, 2022 Rating: 5

Re-Designed: Best Clean

July 15, 2022
What the original template lacked above all else, in my estimation, was structure. This I fixed by adding 1 pixel strokes to the bottoms of the posts and all the widgets. And then the other big change was in the fonts, of which I thought there were too many. So, I changed Playfair Display (the font used in the post titles) to Josefin Sans which I…
Re-Designed: Best Clean Re-Designed: Best Clean Reviewed by Elif Ayiter on July 15, 2022 Rating: 5

Re-Designed: Fabulous

June 28, 2022
What seems to have happened here is that what is actually a very good structure had become overwhelmed by a lot of finnicky details, starting with a rather flamboyant background image and continuing with a diamond type png overlay on two colored areas on the header - a pink one for links and a green one for the search area. This search area also …
Re-Designed: Fabulous Re-Designed: Fabulous Reviewed by Elif Ayiter on June 28, 2022 Rating: 5

Re-Designed: NewsPaper

June 23, 2022
This is a tweak that I am really proud of. I went out on a limb with using different weighted strokes to separate the different sections and I think that this has worked out really well in giving the structure the solidity that was missing from the original. I replaced all the fonts which were all Montserrat, mostly used in lowercase and with a p…
Re-Designed: NewsPaper Re-Designed: NewsPaper Reviewed by Elif Ayiter on June 23, 2022 Rating: 5

Re-Designed: TrendMag

June 23, 2022
A very nice, functional grid theme that has the wonderful feature of being able to display both text only posts as well as image posts. On the original template there is an image behind the header and I wanted to keep that, just replace the image - but also, quite importantly - I wanted to make the header area higher and have the image go to the …
Re-Designed: TrendMag Re-Designed: TrendMag Reviewed by Elif Ayiter on June 23, 2022 Rating: 5

Re-Designed: Faster

June 23, 2022
After toning it down in all kinds of ways - from eliminating the bright yellow details to reducing the font weights and making them uppercase - this has turned out to be a fabulous portfolio theme brought to us by Blossom Themes, who to do them justice have not put any hidden ad traps into this one. All pretty straightforward in that regard. A…
Re-Designed: Faster Re-Designed: Faster Reviewed by Elif Ayiter on June 23, 2022 Rating: 5

Re-Designed: NewsOn

June 23, 2022
Made it wider. Changed the title fonts from Open Sans (I know that this is a very popular font but it is not a terribly good choice in my opinion since it lacks a strong enough baseline) to Work Sans. But although Work Sans is very good for headline stuff (especially uppercase but even the lowercase gives a nice crisp alignment) when it comes to…
Re-Designed: NewsOn Re-Designed: NewsOn Reviewed by Elif Ayiter on June 23, 2022 Rating: 5

Re-Designed: Quotes

June 23, 2022
If it weren't for one tiny thorn in my side I would hail the merits of this theme from the rooftops. That tiny thorn is that fat little quotation mark (which is actually a fontawesome unicode) that I have not been able to replace no matter what I did. That said, this is a wonderful masonry grid theme that does that very rare thing - it allo…
Re-Designed: Quotes Re-Designed: Quotes Reviewed by Elif Ayiter on June 23, 2022 Rating: 5

Re-Designed: Alpha Blossom

June 23, 2022
Yet another magazine theme from Blossom Themes. And unfortunately, we have the same issue that we had in "Kaplan", namely the advertisement widget that has to be hidden but cannot be deleted since the theme stops working once it is gone. Outside of the routine changes that I make to almost every theme that I tweak (eliminating color, …
Re-Designed: Alpha Blossom Re-Designed: Alpha Blossom Reviewed by Elif Ayiter on June 23, 2022 Rating: 5

Re-Designed: Kaplan

June 18, 2022
Now, this is one gorgeous magazine theme. So nice, in fact, that it made me overlook something which I really did not like that the original creators (Blossom Themes) had done here, which is that they inserted very big advertisements both on the home page and the top and the bottom of the post page. And, you cannot delete these, as soon as you do…
Re-Designed: Kaplan Re-Designed: Kaplan Reviewed by Elif Ayiter on June 18, 2022 Rating: 5

Re-Designed: PhotoMag

June 16, 2022
This is one beauty of a photography blog theme, perfect for all types of portfolios. There is one problem with it however that I do have to alert prospective users to: You have to sometimes reload it in order to get the top header bar to work properly. There are situations where all you get is a very narrow bar at the top into which the logo bar…
Re-Designed: PhotoMag Re-Designed: PhotoMag Reviewed by Elif Ayiter on June 16, 2022 Rating: 5
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