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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: 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: 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: Kate

June 14, 2022
There is a rather bad habit that many theme creators have and that is putting a dark overlay on top of photos. There is a reasoning for that, of course - they want to ensure that the texts that get put on top of these images can be read. But, the result is usually a muddy disaster. In my estimation it would be wiser to trust the end user to choo…
Re-Designed: Kate Re-Designed: Kate Reviewed by Elif Ayiter on June 14, 2022 Rating: 5

Re-Designed: November

June 09, 2022
It will be easier to show you this template with a video rather than screenshots since the slider animation at the top is important and also this is a really long page. The first video below shows you what it ended up becoming after my tweak and the second is the "before state. What I did was a lot of typographic adjustments, everything els…
Re-Designed: November Re-Designed: November Reviewed by Elif Ayiter on June 09, 2022 Rating: 5

Re-Designed: Journey

May 18, 2022
Journey is the theme that got me onto this hobby of theme tweaking years ago when I felt that I absolutely had to use this theme for my personal blog but then there were so many problems that I felt had to be fixed. That is when I first stumbled into the blogger HTML editor, not knowing anything about code editing, outside of having changed a few …
Re-Designed: Journey Re-Designed: Journey Reviewed by Elif Ayiter on May 18, 2022 Rating: 5

Re-Designed: Claire

May 09, 2022
The thing that this template in its original state lacked more than anything else was structure. I tried to fixed the problem by widening the layout so that the both the main wrapper as well as the side wrapper got more width and substance. And then the second thing that I did was to add strokes between the posts on the homepage which I think al…
Re-Designed: Claire Re-Designed: Claire Reviewed by Elif Ayiter on May 09, 2022 Rating: 5

Re-Designed: Glossy

April 19, 2022
Glossy ended up being a good, versatile theme that looks a bit like a magazine although it is actually a regular classical blog feed theme. This became clear once the header area was tackled. The problem was that the area designated for the logo was much too narrow and also here too the original creator used a bitmap logo which had to be replaced …
Re-Designed: Glossy Re-Designed: Glossy Reviewed by Elif Ayiter on April 19, 2022 Rating: 5

Re-Designed: Everyday

April 11, 2022
Once I had the idea to replace the featured posts widget at the top with that rather pretty slideshow that I have used previously (and the code for which you can download from here > > > ) this ended up becoming a very nicely structured classic or personal blog with a very nice 3 column footer. In order to strengthen the structure I added …
Re-Designed: Everyday Re-Designed: Everyday Reviewed by Elif Ayiter on April 11, 2022 Rating: 5

Re-Designed: Chickmag

April 11, 2022
ChickMag is one of the themes that I alternate on my own blog, so I really like this one. What I did was to eliminate a lot of color, adjust the locations of the stickers on the featured posts widget, added strokes in order to improve the structure, turned the circular images on the sidebar into rectangles and then there was a lot of font tweaking…
Re-Designed: Chickmag Re-Designed: Chickmag Reviewed by Elif Ayiter on April 11, 2022 Rating: 5

Re-Designed: Typography

April 09, 2022
There are hardly any blogger themes where posts without pictures work - they usually give you broken image link icons. In fact, Typography may well be the only one outside of the classic blogger themes which nowadays are hard to make usage of given that they are not responsive. With this one, again, I changed colors and added a dark background to …
Re-Designed: Typography Re-Designed: Typography Reviewed by Elif Ayiter on April 09, 2022 Rating: 5

Re-Designed: Holomatic

April 08, 2022
After you eliminate the bitmap logo from the header (I do wish theme creators would not do that, it is completely useless to anyone who wants to use the template), do quite a few typographic and color changes as well as delete some rather fussy details such as strange dotted areas around the widget titles, what comes out is a very lovely feed base…
Re-Designed: Holomatic Re-Designed: Holomatic Reviewed by Elif Ayiter on April 08, 2022 Rating: 5

Re-Designed: Sprinx

April 06, 2022
Sprinx is a 2 column masonry blog whose main feature are the different colored post backgrounds on the home page. Quite a nice idea, except that the whole thing was lacking hierachy and structure because of some bad typographic desicions that the original craator had made: Wrong sizes, wrong font weights, and ultimately what I also consider to be…
Re-Designed: Sprinx Re-Designed: Sprinx Reviewed by Elif Ayiter on April 06, 2022 Rating: 5

Re-Designed: Mago

April 04, 2022
With this one I made a pretty big structural change. In the original the featured post image at the top is confined to a single column. I stretched the image across the layout. This made the post title and summary drop below it which turned out to be a good typographic solution. And then, as I do with most of these themes I broadened the layout.…
Re-Designed: Mago Re-Designed: Mago Reviewed by Elif Ayiter on April 04, 2022 Rating: 5

Re-Designed: McKinley

March 30, 2022
This is a straightforward blog feed, the exception being the slideshow on top. I did a lot of tweaks on this one, starting with the colors (also adding a dark background to give more definiton to the center feed), changing all the fonts, from font families to font sizes, also making titles and footer material uppercase. I also replaced the sldesho…
Re-Designed: McKinley Re-Designed: McKinley Reviewed by Elif Ayiter on March 30, 2022 Rating: 5

Re-Designed: Bloggrid Uong Jowo

March 22, 2022
This beautifully structured theme is one of very few blogger theme that allows for text only posts as well as image posts. There is a drawback on posts that contain images however, they get put together as a collage and get displayed on the blog feed like that. And needless to say, this does not always give good results. I tried to figure out a wa…
Re-Designed: Bloggrid Uong Jowo Re-Designed: Bloggrid Uong Jowo Reviewed by Elif Ayiter on March 22, 2022 Rating: 5

Re-Designed: The Backpack theme

March 16, 2022
Once you eliminate all the menus (there is an overabundance of them - 4 alone on the header!), all the little images and the overpowering logo, and also all the rounded images on the sidebar; what emerges is one of the most elegant blogger themes that one could ever hope for. I also changed the typographic elements so that they became more consist…
Re-Designed: The Backpack theme Re-Designed: The Backpack theme Reviewed by Elif Ayiter on March 16, 2022 Rating: 5
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