Replacing Two Column Rich Sage Theme with New Three Column Theme

After a few months I’ve made a decision to move to a three column theme which helps with:

• More content –screens are getting wider.
• More advertising space.
• More widgets and images to build traffic.

The old theme, which I have to the right, didn’t have that clean ’feel’ giving it a fresh, new, Web2.0 look.

I didn’t feel good about the posting area either.  It was too narrow.  I am uploading images that are always 320 pixels wide and that didn’t give room for most posts with text on the side. That’s now resolved.

With this update a major upgrade is done. Now it’s off to do minor things to make the look perfect. That may take a week or two.

WHAT’S GREAT about the NEW THEME?

I think the top is very clean, and when tabs are pressed, the top does not change, but the area below the tabs does.  Some work has to be done by the Wordpress Guru to make it look better, but that’s work for Monday.

The other elements are a new way to seperate the posts, an ad space at the top right, and an entire column of ad spaces to the right of the theme.

All this goes to the monetizing optimization that I am focusing on for two months.  That part of the work will involve inserting advertisers into all the spots and writing reviews.  There are about 4 ad spots and about 2 to 3 reviews per week.

I’ll also discuss the many aspects of the Wordpress Admin area that I’ve worked on.  Not only has the look improved, but the administration functions have too.

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