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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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: Breeze

February 27, 2022
Another blog feed, but this one has a changing background of images which is very nice - once you put images that do not completely eat up your actual content which is what, unfortunately, the original creator seems to have done. So, that was in fact the very first thing that I did, changed the background images to something quite neutral. In the …
Re-Designed: Breeze Re-Designed: Breeze Reviewed by Elif Ayiter on February 27, 2022 Rating: 5

Re-Designed: Isimple

February 14, 2022
This is called isimple and it is a very nice minimalist blog which I am using on one of my course websites designed together with custom post images, which is actually what you see in the screenshot above There was not a lot that I tweaked with this one except some spacing and alignment on the sidebar, which is why I have not made a before and afte…
Re-Designed: Isimple Re-Designed: Isimple Reviewed by Elif Ayiter on February 14, 2022 Rating: 5

Re-Designed: Simplify

February 05, 2022
There are only 2 things that I changed on this: The first was a problem on the header in that for some reason the original creator (who I think is actually Blossom Themes , although this is listed under the colorlib theme portal) had left the area that is designated for the logo very narrow. And then I also changed the font of the logo. The second …
Re-Designed: Simplify Re-Designed: Simplify Reviewed by Elif Ayiter on February 05, 2022 Rating: 5

Re-Designed: Olivia

February 01, 2022
In the original theme there is a featured post widget that goes under the name of something to do with sports (which you would need to change to your label, should you choose to use it). I have kept this in the layout tab, however I am not using it myself since it is this small cramped up thing. And then there is also a menu in the original, whi…
Re-Designed: Olivia Re-Designed: Olivia Reviewed by Elif Ayiter on February 01, 2022 Rating: 5

Re-Designed: Voux

January 18, 2022
Basically what I did here was to get rid of the sidebar and then to widen the post area to the full width and then some, because in my estimation this is a theme that can be best used for portfolio sites where the top menu should be more than adequate for navigation. What is espcially great for a portfolio site is that each post on the homepage h…
Re-Designed: Voux Re-Designed: Voux Reviewed by Elif Ayiter on January 18, 2022 Rating: 5
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