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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: 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: 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: 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: 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

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: 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

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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