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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: 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: Pebbles

June 14, 2022
I am usually confident that what I have tweaked will work with no problems, and I put it on this site with that assurance. This is not due to my competence but rather it is due to the skill of the original template creator who has put together something that works flawlessly, which I only tweak. Pebbles is not like that. I am still putting it he…
Re-Designed: Pebbles Re-Designed: Pebbles Reviewed by Elif Ayiter on June 14, 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: 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: 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

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: 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

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: 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: 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 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: 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: 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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