New Design Goes Live

newthemeAfter two days, the new design for GotChance has gone live today. If you are reading GotChance via RSS, you might want to come over to the blog to check out the new design.

Some of the features of this new design :

  • Pretty much, I’ve retained the color scheme from the old design since I love blue very much. I’ve changed the color of the sidebar to a light brown.
  • Simplified Header : The header now has no images other than the logo. This improves page load time.
  • Rich Header : Instead of having a plain header with just the navigation links, I’ve included more in the header : 1) A photo of me :D 2) Popular Posts and 3) Subscribe Box
  • Looots of icons : I’ve used a lot of icons in this design for many purposes. All the icons are from famfamfam’s Silk icon set.
  • Sharing options after post : Now, there are direct social sharing options after the post. And also a subscribe box :)
  • Rich Footer : Also, I’ve added more information to the footer too, as you can see.

And, as I said, I a learnt some new stuff in this process. I’ll share them in my next posts. Stay tuned…

5 Responses

I like the new theme, but I liked the old graphics in the header better. I understand that this new one will load faster, but load times aren’t everything…

ali

nice design. congratulations.

@George, Yeah, mainly i decided to use a non-graphic header so that i can place the popular posts and subscribe box over there…

@ali, thanks :)

I love this new theme also the icons. Thanks the link dor the icons, i will grab it.