First off, one of MoneyEnergy’s articles was published this week in the 26th Money Hacks Carnival hosted by Our Fourpence Worth. Thanks, Penelope!
Second, MoneyEnergy’s look is going to be changing again in the near future. Due to some apparently irreconcilable technical problems with the theme that I can’t fix even after playing with the code and even though it all works fine on two of my own computers (mac and pc), the best solution seems to be upgrading the template. I liked this template for a lot of reasons, but MoneyEnergy may have outgrown it.
I need to especially thank David from TopForeignStocks, Sean from FinancialRamblings, Cy from MoneySavingPro as well as CashMoneyLife and WPersonalFinance for their important feedback relating to improving this site. Cy, David and Sean went well out of their way to help me find solutions and the best ways forward.
It’s not all bad – I had been eyeing some really nice templates for a while, now, too. And I like variety as much as I like keeping things the way they are (yeah, it’s a great paradox!).
So this is your chance to have some final input into what type of template MoneyEnergy should use. Comment or email (email might be better) in what the ultimate strengths/weaknesses of this design are and you might be able to influence the next look (and I’ll include a nice link thanking you, of course).
NB: Until we get a new template/theme, try viewing this site with your browser fully maximized. That seems to solve the problem of the “dropping sidebar.” I view this site on both 17″ and 15″ screens with firefox maximized and it looks fine. A couple of readers have said so too, and making sure the browser is maximized definitely took away the problem. Thanks!
Update: thanks for the nice feedback, everyone. I won’t be switching blogging software (I love wordpress, it really can’t get any easier than this), just the template itself. If you have any great (new, interesting, fresh) suggestions let me know. And of course, the logo, URL and everything else about MoneyEnergy will remain just the same:)
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Will you switching to a different blogging software or just changing the template?
Glad to know that you are going to change
the site theme.I am sure if you will
find a good one.There are plenty out there.
Some of the technical things with themes are
not easy to fix.I had trouble with a
NewsBlue theme and could not get help from
the creator.So I changed to a new theme.
Cheers!.
I’ll only be changing the template – to something slightly more conventional and easier to read.
If anyone has any suggestions, or what they’d look for if they were going to switch their template, I’d love to hear!