As you have probably noticed I have done an update to the look of the site. Through the couple of years I have been blogging it is not the first time I have made changes (probably the 4th or 5th time) as I felt the logos needed updating. I hope you like the new look and it made me wonder:
How regularly do you make changes to your blog design?
I’ve kept the same theme for the past two years but I keep telling myself that one day I will update my layout.
Just try to sit down to do it..in the end it is very statisfying to see the result.
I think I’m on my 4th design since starting in 2009. I doubt I’ll be changing it in the foreseeable future though.
So you have changed it up fairly frequently. As long as you are happy with it now that’s all that matters.
I’ve kept the same design pretty much since the beginning. I am getting the itch to update it, but I have to actually start writing reviews again first.
Just do it Victor, you know you want to!
I make little tweaks regularly to the design, but it’s pretty arduous to really make massive edits. Honestly, my wife has the better eye and does most of the design work. That’s not really my area of expertise. If I was solely responsible, it would look disastrous.
I like the new design!
Thank you Dan. Always good to have some help. I do all of it myself, but wish I knew more about design. One day I’ll try to follow some classes on it I hope.
Not once in 3 years 😀
Not itching to change it up?
Every so often but like my ambitions it just fades away 😀
I really like the new logo.
I change my header picture almost every day, but that isn’t a substantial change — not for a photography. I’ve changed the template at least half a dozen times in the past ocuple of years, though all of the templates are very similar to each other so you might not even notice. I’m always looking for THE perfect template. The one I’m using is pretty close. It has almost everything I want.
Thanks a lot Marilyn. I was not even planning on making a new one, it kind of happened and before I knew it I had something I really liked.
It’s important that the template offers what you are looking for. I’m pretty happy with mine although there are always some things I would like to add/tweak. Finding the time to do that though is the most difficult.
Hi Nostra! How uncanny that you asked this as I just updated my blog background this afternoon 😀 I should do it more often but I just don’t have the time. I noticed you’ve got a new logo and header, very nice Nostra!
I noticed that. Very subtle change but I really like it. Thanks Ruth.
Great new logo, Nostra! Very fancy 😀
I change the design of my blog fairly sporadically. When I just look at it and feel like I hate it. Since I created my blog, I told myself, one day I’d get around making my own theme for it. “For now” a ready made one will do. With a few customisations.
That was nearly 5 years ago!
Thanks a lot Jaina, I’m pretty happy with it as well.
I assume creating a theme from scratch would be quite difficult, but then again I have never been a great programmer 😉
I’ve kept the overall design, as in the layout theme, for the entire 2+ years I’ve been running my site, though I do put in a few tweaks here and there every six months to a year, usually just tweaking the logo, or changing the background image, or whatnot.
As long as theme suffices and it can do what you want from it that is all that matters.
I change my site minimally (it’s had the same basic design since day one) and I have only changed my logo three times since it’s inception 7 years ago. I guess it’s good to change things up from time to time, so I’d say when things are starting to look a little stale and tired, it’s time to swing the paintbrush about a bit.
Yeah, indeed the stale and tired one is usually the reason I start changing things. Never really plan on them, there will just be a day where I think it needs changing and do it.
I’ve barely changed my site at all to be honest, but that’s largely because I don’t know how to! I think I have to pay WordPress if I want access to the code of the theme. There’s plenty I’d like to do to it though.
Yeah, if you want to change code and you are on WOrdpress.com you have to pay them. Changing themes though is easy.