This website has got a huge makeover today.
First I must admit that choosing blogger over wordpress was a mistake. But what makes it even more horrible is the fact that it continues to haunt me everytime I see some cool feature in wordpress. Some features in Blogger are still neanderthal. Themes for instance. Although blogger adopted an xml based theme ages ago, their set of default themes are very few. The quality of the themes that are available around the web for blogger aren't upto the mark.
One of the things that irks me the most as a photographer who blogs is the fact that all the themes were designed for 800x600 resolution which is pretty much defunct in this widescreen era. Especially with the sidebars and stuff, the total width of the photos that one can post limits to a measley 400 px wide. So the new theme that I have updated to a 1024 px wide theme which has become the defacto standard for websites.
It will allow me to post images to a max of 800 px wide - double the size as before. I have removed quite a few widgets that I no longer use. More importantly, there are no more Google Ads. Only time will tell if it is a good move or not and it is certainly debateable. For now, I would like to be as-is.
Further, I decided to make the background black (from white) to make it more pleasing to view the photos. I hope that the other colors that I have chosen goes in well with the overall theme /look and feel.
So, what do you think of it? Do let me know!
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