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What do you think of the new theme?

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Well, as you can see, Fresh Perspectives gets a new theme couple of days ago.  The previous theme BloggingPro worked fine for some time but I used it for too long, more than a year and I needed a change.  This theme, Options by Justin Tadlock as you can see, displays a lot more content for you to browse through and I'm loving the navigation.  

I had tremendous help (truck loads of it I should say) from my dearest friends Mig from Online Public Relations and Deborah from Life In The Fast Lane.  So, although I was a bit afraid of the change,  I'm starting to really like it. 

There are some features that are not working right now and we are trying to fix them but in the mean time, would love to hear from you guys.  Please let me know in the comments if you find something broken or not working.   If you are seeing this post via RSS, you'll definitely have to come out here to see it.

One of the things that's not working and it has nothing to do with the theme, is inserting images in WordPress 2.5.1 If you follow that link, you'll see so many others who are having problem with inserting images. Some have found the solution by modifying the .htaccess file which I want to refrain from since WordPress 2.6 has been just released today and I am hoping the upgrade will solve this problem.

So, then.. what do you guys think?   Are the colors okay, better or worse than the previous one?   What would you like to see and what feature can be remove?   

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pearl

hehe thanks Saboma! glad to have you back .. you know I’m just so glad to have some of the best of friends around, and Im sure you know them too :) so get whatever skin you want when you can :)

pearl

okay I dont really like the way these smileys stand out of the context! a problem I used to have with the last theme too.. and that square different colored border!

dcr

I just came here following a link on Bobby’s site, after leaving a comment mentioning that I don’t like the magazine themes very much!

I must say, though, that this is one of the better ones. I can find things easily and it’s not hard to spot the most recent post.

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Grand*MA

I never left, Girly. I have you in my reader with the others. I had been having connection problems for the past few months, it seems but it’s under control now or at least it appears to be under control. Then again, I could have bumped my head without realizing it, hehehe.
*HUGS!*

Grand*MA

I never left, Girly. I have you in my reader with the others. I had been having connection problems for the past few months although it seems but it’s under control now or at least it appears to be under control. Then again, I could have bumped my head without realizing it, hehehe.
*HUGS!*

pearl

@dcr I had that fear about magazine themes too this came out looking pretty good. Thanks for stopping by dcr.. hope to see you around again

@Grand*MA haha *HUGS* back … it’s just very good to see you again..

Benedict Herold

This gives really very new look to your blog.. Actually, re-born :)

Steven Snell

Hey Pearl,
Congrats on the new design, it looks good. I like how the theme uses the image thumbnails on the front page.

RT Cunningham | Philippines

It’s very nice, Pearl. I like the rotating header images and the multiple options in the upper right corner. I need to see how those options are done and copy it. :-)

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Alina Popescu

Hi Pearl,

Then new theme looks awesome! Especially the header image. I also use a Justin Tadlock theme and I love it )

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