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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: 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: 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: 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: 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: mZine

June 10, 2022
This is a magazine blog that really deserves to be called a magazine. There are lots and lots of categories on the main page which one can fill with different label content. I did a lot of typographic changes. What I also did (which is something that I am doing on a lot of these themes actually) was to change the width of the layout. But these c…
Re-Designed: mZine Re-Designed: mZine Reviewed by Elif Ayiter on June 10, 2022 Rating: 5

Re-Designed: X-Max

June 09, 2022
This is another template that will be easier to show with a video rather than screenshots since this is one long page in which there is a parallax scroll effect that does need to be seen in motion. 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 typo…
Re-Designed: X-Max Re-Designed: X-Max Reviewed by Elif Ayiter on June 09, 2022 Rating: 5

Re-Designed: Saara Fashion

May 17, 2022
Once it is brightened up, this is one of the nicest "festured posts" slider themes that I have come across in a while. The big tweak involved deleting the gray overlay on the slider. And once I figured out how to do that the beauty of the thing really came out. One thing about the slider though: The way you will see the featured post ima…
Re-Designed: Saara Fashion Re-Designed: Saara Fashion Reviewed by Elif Ayiter on May 17, 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: 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: The Shutter Theme

April 03, 2022
Shutter is a beauty of a template with infinite scrolling and a huge top slider that was created by Blossom Themes > > > where one can still see it on their test templates list. However finding the XML file for it is pretty much impossible nowadays. Thankfully, I downloaded it while it was still around, and now decided to take a whack at …
Re-Designed: The Shutter Theme Re-Designed: The Shutter Theme Reviewed by Elif Ayiter on April 03, 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

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

Re-Designed: Instaset

March 03, 2022
What I did here was mostly font changes, but these were some prety major ones. I replaced the condensed font that the original creator had used with one that I know from experience looks cleaner on the screen. So, what used to be Archivio Narrow became Oswald. I greatly reduced the size of the header logo. And then, I eliminated a lot of colors an…
Re-Designed: Instaset Re-Designed: Instaset Reviewed by Elif Ayiter on March 03, 2022 Rating: 5
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