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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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Erica Mike

ITS SUPERB…

Ange aka angesbiz

Pearl, I love it!! I want to steal it!! kidding.
I found this via twitter… it seems that I did not get the update in my email box! Strange really as there is no reason why the RSS feed wouldn’t work!

Otherwise, I clicked around a bit and everything seems in order to me :)

A change is as good as a holiday. Hope to see more posts!

Bobby Revell

Hi Pearl! I spent a while navigating through everything and checking out all the functionality. It looks and works great, I really love the header too. Now you’ve got me thinking about trying this out :mrgreen:

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Scott

I like it – great photo in the header.

pearl

@Ange @Bobby.. thanks guys.. I’m starting to love it too as I browse around different sections… was debating if comment background should be changed ‘coz these greens are from the original that matched with the side background… but overall, yeah, I needed a change and hopefully it’ll inspire me to write more…

Feedburner stopped all feeds a couple of days ago .. Ive checked everything last night but have no idea why.. so tweeted out of frustration :)

Bobby you should try it if you need a change :)

@Scott: glad you like it too .. I was really worried about those hdr images too .. they turned out good :)

teeni

Hi Pearl! This is lovely! I just got a couple of your updates in my reader at once just now so I had to hop on over. I was so excited to see you and your new look! I hope it serves you well. I gotta go check and make sure I didn’t miss anything at your place while I was away now.

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Simonne

I like it very much. And the header photo is great. I think I won’t read you in the feed reader anymore from now on ;)

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Akemi - Yes to Me

I like it a lot. The header photo is beautiful and conveys positive feeling. Everything is well organized, and the color scheme is nice, too.

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pearl

@teeni I just got last 4 posts in my reader all at once after I made some changes to the original feed. See I didn’t even realize my feeds weren’t getting to anyone… only noticed when there were no comments for more than 10 hours on this post…

@Simonne I thought about it that you hadn’t been around here and concluded I might have bored you ;) so glad you decided to stop by

@Akemi: I’ve been meaning to write to you – glad you like the header images.. refresh it and you’ll see more.. and I hope to add some more some day

Grand*MA

Girlfriend, the new skin is absotively gorgeous and is right up your alley. Matter of fact, I’m thinking along the line just like Ange. “I want it”, too!

Congratulations, Girly!