I wanted to make my blog pretty. So I went to do a makeover.

Okay. I’ll skip John Chow’s e-book today. I had a much more urgent mission. I had to beautify my blog so that it’ll look presentable to my visitors. You would have noticed that it was a total makeover. I believe a good first impression is required to make my visitors stay and read my blogs. The last theme was good but this one turns out to be even better. I had to look for something much more refreshing and not turn off any visitors, as much as possible.

I went to look for a nice theme and found one at SkinPress.com … It was free although I was very much tempted to get the premium ones, well, of course for a price. I thought, let’s save that for later after I make some money from this blog.

I was on a roll to get it a little customized and learned a few PHP and CSS codes along the way. I also went to correct some wordings to make it even better.

The initial launch was not too nice with all the posts showing in full. I learned fast to add the “more” tag in each post. You can find out how and all other codes in relation to Wordpress usage from here.

I had a paid account with iStockphoto sometime ago and put it to good use here. I downloaded some pictures to accompany my post. If you notice from my featured posts, there’s an accompanying picture that I tried very hard to create a relation to the post.

And what else did I do?

Some other minor tweaking, like the font to the blog title. If you have Trajan Pro installed on your computer, you would see a different font on the title rather than the boring Verdana font. All this by learning some CSS codes.

I guess I only skirmished past the easy part of CSS and PHP in this session. The more advanced codes are very much complicated. I don’t think I would dwell in those in the near future.

Now that I am pretty satisfied with how my blog looks, I should concentrate further in making it work for me.

Till next time…