Yep, after a few years of always saying that I was going to take the leap, I finally took the leap!
If you’ve been to this site before, you probably barely noticed that change! I decided to make the transition gradual instead of dramatic. Gone is my former image head, but more importantly, GONE is my previous “Beta Theme” that hasn’t been updated for years!
I really liked the look of my previous “Beta Theme“, but it had issues with the way it handled the internal workings and I’m afraid that it might have stunt my site’s growth because of poor SEO technique that were incorrect or even missing.
It’s like the old saying “You can’t judge a book by its cover”, or in my case a blog theme by how attractive it looks. I guess I should have realized right away that the old theme was bad since I had to go into the code directly to modify things that other bloggers had no problems with. Since I’m a developer by trade, it wasn’t a huge deal, but since the language was new, it was a bit of a pain all the same…
With the new theme, I can build upon a solid code base since this is a premium theme! It’s funny, when I started blogging, I thought other bloggers were crazy for spending money on premium themes, but not I understand the value in it!
Now for some blog carnival love! Below are all the personal finance carnivals I’ve been in for the past few weeks. If you’d like to submit an article to the same great carnivals, try BloggerCarnivals.com. It’s where I always go to get my carnival submissions done!
- Y & T’s Weekend Ramblings at Young and Thrifty
- Financial Carn. for Young Adults at 20s Finances
- Carn. of Financial Camaraderie at The University of Money
- Carnival of MoneyPros at Making Sense Of Cents
- Totally Money Carnival at James Petzke: Graduating with a Surplus
- Carnival of Retirement at Life Insurance by Jeff
- Yakezie Carnival at Kylie Ofiu
- Lifestyle Carnival at Mom’s Plans
- Carnival of Financial Planning at Broke ProfessionalsYakezie
- Yakezie Carnival at The Ultimate Juggle
- Carnival of MoneyPros at My Family Finances
- Wealth Artisan’s FinCarn at Wealth Artison
- Carnival of Financial Planning at Family Money Values
I’ll report back in at a future update as to where my theme change has made a difference or not!
Peace,
MR
The new theme looks great Don. Congrats on making the upgrade after all these years. I’ll probably do the same thing and stick with the same basic theme for years before getting around to changing.
Thanks, I was due… lol
At first I was too busy focusing on building traffic and really just learning the ropes… I’m seasoned now though. lol
Theme looks great- very crisp!
Hope things are going well for you!
Thanks
This are okay, summer is in full swing so it’s hard to do much online vs the fall.
Hope you are doing well too!
New look looks good! I will be updating my blog’s image at the end of the month and can’t wait! Congrats on the jump to the new theme and I hope it helps!
Yeah, I need to create a new image too! My old image was the name “Money Reasons” lol, oh well…
The new theme looks mucho efficient. I like it! One of these days, one of these days, says I…
Thank! Its not much different from the old version, but at least it has less errors within…
Congrats on the switch! I noticed the header change but that’s about it. Hope the new theme brings you even more readers!
Can’t say much for the traffic, but the speed of the site has definitely improved (so far).
Then again it could be because I purged all of the the revisions that were on the site too… who knows which boosted the speed…
I see that you now have clean and professional look here. some banner images are broken and social share icons are not there. I think you are working at it now.
Hi SB,
Actually you are right, at that time I was working on it!
Very nice…now please install subscribe to comments!
I’m going to go look for that plugin now
Can you change it back so that RSS subscribers like me get to read your whole post?
I just changed it back! I hope it starts working like it use too!
I added you to my RSS reader, (just used /feed after your URL, not too tough) but I don’t see a RSS link on your page. Other than that, nice clean theme.