Techie Buzz goes green
By on June 17th, 2007

I have not posting for the last two days. The reason is because I was making Techie Buzz go green. I am proud to release my first WordPress theme for my site. This theme is currently not available for public downloads but I will make it available very shortly, there is still some work to be done before I can release the theme publicly.

Do let me know your thoughts about the new theme. Also let me know if you are seeing any problems in different browsers. I have tested it with Firefox2, Flock, IE6 and IE7 on Windows XP. Opera users please let me know if there are any problems with the theme.

techie-theme-screenshot

The theme original design is done by freecsstemplates.org. I have modified it heavily to make it look what it does now. You can view the original template integral. The theme is created using CSS and div layers and dose not make any use of tables. The sidebar is at the right and content to the left. The sidebar is to the left and the content is to the right, but while loading the content always loads first making it search engine friendly too.

I have modified the header of the original theme to fit in subscription and ads. At the bottom of the page I have added space to fit in additional content like top posts.

techie-theme-bottom

Do let me know your thoughts about the new themes through your comments.

I am not a professional designer but I am open to converting designs to WordPress themes for a small charge. If you would be interested do drop me a line using the contact form and I will get back to you.

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  • http://chalowalkin.com ChaloWalkin

    One more Cool design buddy !!
    Hopefully I will get my next WP design professionally done by you.
    Keep it up.

    • keith

      ChaloWalking glad that you liked the theme, and yes as I said I am open to converting designs to wordpress themes

  • http://www.betatalk.info/ Ron S

    Very nice design, Keith. Love the color scheme you’ve chosen.

    • keith

      Ron, Glad you liked it. I will release a GPL version of this theme soon.

  • http://www.shivaranjan.com Shivaranjan

    The theme looks good. Your theme looks fine in opera. :)

    • keith

      Thanks a lot Shiva. Thanks for letting me know it looks fine in opera :-).

  • http://garryconn.com Garry Conn

    Hey Keith,

    Wow man! Looking good man… looking good! :)

    • keith

      thanks a Lot Gary :-*

  • http://www.venukb.com/blog Venu

    The layout looks cool including the header.

    But the color(its kind of very bright) and font in the post is too small (on a 1600*1200) resolution.Not sure If I am the only one with this opinion :)

    • keith

      Thanks Venu have made the changes you have suggested.

  • http://daily-tech-news.blogspot.com/ Ramkarthik

    The theme looks cool and professional. The theme is simple and very adorable. Good work man.

    • keith

      Welocme Ramkarthik, glad you liked the theme.

  • http://www.nirmaltv.com Nirmal

    Great theme Keith, my suggestion- increase the font size in the footer where you show the popular posts and other additional links.

    • keith

      Thanks Nirmal I have made the changes.

  • http://www.shankarganesh.com Shankar Ganesh

    Great job, Keith. The theme’s layout is lovely. But a suggestion: I found the greyish colour you’re using for body text is poorly visible :( Please use a darker colour. Other than that, it’s lovely.

  • http://www.avirtualexit.com Gili

    Looks very professional. Keep it up.

    • keith

      Thanks Gili :-).

  • http://tech4sure.blogspot.com/ Ashish Saini (Ashfame)

    Congratz on ur new theme but its top look messy on post pages

    • keith

      Hey Ashish, can you tell me what does not look right so that I can fix the issue

  • http://www.kylescove.com Kyle Eslick

    Ahh, love the shade of green you’re using! And love the use of the threaded comments plugin.

    I second the darkest text (rather than the grey).

    Also, not that it matters much, but your sidebar drops below the content column in IE6 (which I have to use at work). I doubt many will view your site using IE6, so just offering the information. Take 5px out of one or both columns and it should fix the problem I would think.

    • keith

      Hey kyle, glad you liked the new look. Thanks for letting me know about the IE6 issue will definitely fix it by today

  • http://www.whoismadhur.com Madhur Kapoor

    Nice design man . Good to see some change .

    • keith

      Glad you liked it Madhur.

  • http://www.freakitude.com Lovedeep Wadhwa

    Awesome theme. :D

    • keith

      glad you liked it :-)

  • http://www.listikal.com LISTIKAL

    Nice work Keith. Did you use the Preview Theme plugin before you launched? or what method did you use before you changed your theme so drastically?

    • keith

      I first tested the theme on a identical installation on my local machine. I did use the preview theme plugin to test out before going live, but preview theme has a small flaw in it where it only works for one url and you have to modify the url’s for navigation.

  • http://tech4sure.blogspot.com/ Ashish Saini (Ashfame)

    The links at the top.
    Here is the screenshot

    You may try changing the colors of link (Ones those are for Bookmarking) or removing link ads just above the post’s name

    • keith

      Thanks for the tips Ashish I have made the changes accordingly.

  • http://tech4sure.blogspot.com/ Ashish Saini (Ashfame)
  • http://www.sizlopedia.in/ ravi

    One more Cool design buddy

 
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