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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: Grider

June 14, 2022
When I first looked at 'Grider' I wasn't at all sure that tweaking this would be worth it - it looked so desolate. In the event I am glad that I did it because I now like it quite a bit. It took me a very long time to get the background image to work and those who want to use this tweak with their own backgrounds should be aware that…
Re-Designed: Grider Re-Designed: Grider Reviewed by Elif Ayiter on June 14, 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: EvoNews

June 10, 2022
"It's own mother wouldn't recognize it" pretty much describes this one, once I was done with tweaking it. What didn't I change? Everything pretty much. And what came out is actually a very nice 2 column grid portfolio theme. There are a lot of really nice details that the original creator made, such as the archive widget wh…
Re-Designed: EvoNews Re-Designed: EvoNews Reviewed by Elif Ayiter on June 10, 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: 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: Straight

May 15, 2022
Once the rather distracting background was replaced with a neutral gradient and the width of the masonry grid, as well as the post page were extended, this has turned out to be a very good theme to show design work and photographs. I made 2 versions of this, one has a menu on top and the other doesn't. This menu has to be configured from insid…
Re-Designed: Straight Re-Designed: Straight Reviewed by Elif Ayiter on May 15, 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

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
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