New Websites Made Simple Blog Design Layout

First of all, thank you to everyone of before and now who have supported my Websites Made Simple blog ever since it started back in 2003. It’s been a solid 4 years of blogging for me and I never expected it to be that long.

For those who know, this blog was always a personal space for me to share my opinions. However, time passed and I began to realize my love for Malaysia web design and development was more of my passion. Hence, the change of focus and soon enough I was writing more and more articles about web design and development for the Malaysia scene.

On the other hand, I will not be taking any credit for this new blog design here. Because this layout was not designed or developed by myself. The full credit should go to Brian Gardner for designing and developing this great theme; Whitespace.

The Whitespace WordPress theme was a layout I had decided to upgrade few weeks back. I didn’t want to introduce the new theme as I was tweaking it behind the scenes. I needed to make some minor amendments to it so it would fit the websites made simple blog better. Till today, it is still only 95% complete but it’s looking like a very satisfying upgrade from Simpla and Dropshadow for me.

I’m seeing this new 3-column websites made simple layout as the next level of maturity for this blog. With the constant content I have been producing, I believe this 3-column does it justice. I’m really happy with this new theme. *sniff*

The decisions I have made with this blog is:

• Brand it stronger with a large header space
• Use the left sidebar to focus on content
• Add photo of myself (finally huh…)
• Use the right sidebar for advertisements
• Allocate reserved advertising space for Malaysia businesses only!
• Browse archives by (old) months in the footer
• Recommended books (I have read)
• And lastly, take the websites made simple content to the next level

Well, I hope you will enjoy this new layout too. If you have any suggestions or spotted any ‘bugs’ do get in touch with me.

Websites Made Simple; a simple Malaysia web design blog made readers.

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