Amazing what the change of the theme can do for you — or your site.
I’ve moved off “Geekie.org 2″, our previous theme for Geekie.org that was a two-sidebar design based on the Vistered Little 1.6a release. Now I’m using Vistered Little 1.7.7, an excellent theme for WordPress that can be customized to your needs.
I haven’t yet managed to recover the added functionality from “Geekie.org 2″, like PayPerPost disclosure badge integration, or the dual sidebar, or the Google-powered search, but I think the new header (complete with image) is quite nice.
Utilizing a new fixed image system designed by me that will not have any problems regardless of screen resolution (a previous bugger), I no longer need to worry about what size my users’ sizes are. The new image, which takes advantage of JPEG (albeit lossy) compression and the CSS-based white background, nicely represents our site. Of course, it will be switched every once in a while.
Another change is the integration of FeedBurner; our main RSS/ATOM feed now redirects automatically to the browser-friendly page at FeedBurner. Not only will this allow me to track our users / subscribers more accurately, it gives me a ton of options for adding interactivity to each post (you may have noticed the FeedFlare links below each individual post that allow Stumbles, Diggs, and bookmarks).
Our banners have also changed, moving back to the leaderboard style that was used on this site months ago. Hopefully the ads aren’t too intrusive; I’ve tried to make them as least annoying as possible. There’s also the banner below the first post, which will hopefully interest you enough for a few clicks and/or conversions (eg. the Diino 2 GB free space offer, or Amazon Associate stuff).
Please note that a new licensing notice has been added at the bottom of every page, explaining that content from this blog is now released under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 2.5 Canada License, and that our feed is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 License. Links to our privacy and disclosure policies are also there, to ensure that the user knows of such requirements.
Look out, as our site will be changing!
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