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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: 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: 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: OmViral

June 16, 2022
With most of these I seem to have developed a routine strategy. The first thing that I usually do is make the whole thing wider. The second is to eliminate all of the muddy overlays on all the featured post gadgets and sliders. And then, once those basic things are taken care of I work on the details, which is colors and typography. So, I chan…
Re-Designed: OmViral Re-Designed: OmViral Reviewed by Elif Ayiter on June 16, 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: FutureMag

June 14, 2022
What I tweaked on this one were the colors, meaning I made everything grayscale. This is something that I do by default, since I know from graphic design experience that colors will clash with colored photos. If you have a layout in which you use only black and white images - then, by all means, knock yourself out and use all the colors in the w…
Re-Designed: FutureMag Re-Designed: FutureMag Reviewed by Elif Ayiter on June 14, 2022 Rating: 5

Re-Designed: Minimal

June 10, 2022
The biggest change that I made on this theme was changing the padding of the post thumbnails on the main feed so that they join each other. This padding can be changed to something wider and there are instructions in the package on how to do that. I also eliminated the sidebar and made the post area wider. And then, there were of course the many…
Re-Designed: Minimal Re-Designed: Minimal Reviewed by Elif Ayiter on June 10, 2022 Rating: 5

Red-Designed: MOX

April 26, 2022
What MOX seemed to lack was overall structure which I tackled by making the whole layout wider but then decreasing the space between the sidebar and the main post area. I then added horizontal strokes to the tops of the different magazine widgets on the main area, as well as those on the sidebar. And these strokes are what helped pull the whole s…
Red-Designed: MOX Red-Designed: MOX Reviewed by Elif Ayiter on April 26, 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: 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: 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: The Expose theme

April 01, 2022
Here I had to do quite a bit of cleanup work on what is actually a very nice template. The issue is that you really cannot have any of the "recent post" widgets and so on, that the original author put on the layout tab since they scramble up the grid. I removed all of them from the layout panel, however this does not mean that you will n…
Re-Designed: The Expose theme Re-Designed: The Expose theme Reviewed by Elif Ayiter on April 01, 2022 Rating: 5

Re-Designed: ProMag

March 21, 2022
This is a very nice magazine theme with lots of different featured post boxes for different categories that are all styled differently, a thumbnail silder at the top, and another slider for the main featured posts. My job was the usual stuff: Deleting color details, changing fonts from a rather hefty slab serif to a sans font (Barlow) that has a …
Re-Designed: ProMag Re-Designed: ProMag Reviewed by Elif Ayiter on March 21, 2022 Rating: 5
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