I have finished the initial touches of my new theme for Hinlalato. I have removed some features and and some images and objects that may be a cause of delayed loading time thus having the threat of higher bounce rate. I am quite concerned and meticulous about site details that it cause me to delay my daily tasks. Would you believe that i have spent almost the whole day trying to find a good decent FREE theme. Thanks to DBT or daily blog tips in providing such awesome theme. It wasn’t hard for me to edit some codes either. All I did was to search over the internet my whole question and browsed for answers. Here are some objects i removed from the pages.
SIDEBAR
Popular Post - doesn’t help in my honest opinion
Pages - I have over the menu options, why would I need it in the sidebar?
Adverts - Removed two (2) 125×125 boxes. It occupies too much space. This is just a starting blog so, might as well start slow . 
INDEX / Homepage
- The Homepage was showing five (5) full posts that really bothered me in some ways. I had to search over the internet to get the codes on how to summarize the posts in my homepage. At first, I was thinking of downloading a plugin but then led to a step by step process on how to have excerpt posts, showing only summary, about fifty words for the whole entry. It wasn’t that hard. I just replace some codes within the index.html and it worked like a charm.
Some say that one must not pay much attention to themes but rather concentrate on the content. I believe that having a good theme would definitely affect your readers perspective of your blog. Good content plus great them must always go together for a successful blogging. I hope you like my new theme, not premium though, but its a start.
October 19th, 2008 at 6:29 am
Theme is Simply great.
Looks superb.
October 20th, 2008 at 1:07 pm
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