By Design

“Your people will judge you on what you build, not what you destroy”, said the  US President. But sometimes, to create, one had to destroy – for instance, his blog’s old design. Now came the difficult part. He hoped that in the two most important sections, there’d still be something good enough to write – Home, About.

until next time, whatcha think of the revamp? 🙂

Comments

32 responses to “By Design”

  1. Sampad Swain Avatar

    Like this brand new theme. But is it possible to reduce the *Manuscrypts* image. It look tab bit bigger than required!

    Rest is fab. +1 on that!


    @Sampad

  2. arunima Avatar

    It is nice. you keep changing and reinveting yourself, while I remain in the same old template.

  3. litterateuse Avatar

    “Oops. Wrong page.”

  4. Gourav Avatar

    Don’t like it as much as the older one :(…well I am partial to black and red so… 🙂

  5. ~nm Avatar

    neat and clean…

  6. austere Avatar
    austere

    Nicer.

  7. Kunal Avatar

    I prefer this one.. have always preferred Whites 🙂

    also any specific reason you kept the text on the header image? what theme are you using can always be mentioned at the footer of the page.

  8. | Balu  | Avatar
    | Balu |

    The new design feels a little tighter.. I like the old one better. This looks like a normal wordpress.com blog, the old one had a better feel to it.. +1 to Gaurav’s point black n red are your colours man.. why change?
    PS: Just noticed the header keep changing cool =)

  9. .and on the blog today “By Design” https://manuscrypts.com/?p=1500 🙂

  10. A Cynic in Wonderland Avatar

    nice it is.but also had a er..wrong page moment

  11. A Cynic in Wonderland Avatar

    my blog is also clamouring for change. its my blogs fifth year happy birthday tomorrow.

  12. naren Avatar

    Topping! that panorama pic looks oddly familiar

  13. rads Avatar

    I donno, I liked the dark version. Suited you :p

  14. Navneet Avatar
    Navneet

    I like the white so much better. Manu times over. For one, ‘Heroes’ stays ‘Heroes’ and doesn’t mutate into anything communicable. 🙂 I second Mr.Swain on the ‘M’ in the masthead, though. Could do away with it, even. Since it already hovers king size over the ‘About’ just below.
    Curious: That you in the yellow t-shirt surveying the landscape?

  15. Shefaly Avatar

    All change eventually gets accepted even if grudgingly.

    The last template took into account that a vast majority of your readers is used to scan-reading left to right. That assumption is used in most blog templates even the flexible ones. The presence of a third left column stands in the way of that scanning (come on, you are a branding guy; surely you know how ads etc are designed for maximum impact!). The last one was visually more appealing too because the use of colour was clever and bold. But who am I to say? Your blog, your choice. Those who do not like it can always stop reading 🙂

  16. Shefaly Avatar

    That _is_ Acropolis in front of you, isn’t it? Hmm.

  17. suma Avatar

    the header picture keeps changing? that’s the only wow factor here…

    i liked the old one better, but never mind me….its your blog :))

  18. Nikhil Narayanan Avatar

    Welcome to the Neo Classical club 😀
    “Full kuppi pottikal” time 😉

    -Nikhil

  19. IdeaSmith Avatar

    I thought the earlier design was sleeker, one of the best I’ve ever seen in fact. But I do like the customization on the ‘M with pointy tail’ logo now with the feed curves on the side. It’s really cool.

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