Check Out The New Blog Design

After nearly 2 years with the same design it was time to say goodbye to the past and hello to the future. I’ve moved this blog over to Thesis and specifically am using a customized version of the Marketers Delight theme created by Alex Mangini / Kolakube.

Why I Chose Thesis / Kolakube Skins

For a while I had been planning to get a new design and when I reached out to Alex after finding Marketers Delight he was really helpful and so I moved forward with him and his design. I also chose to build upon Thesis because I have several friends who’ve been using Thesis for a while on their authority style blogs so I decided to make the switch and try it out.

Want A Similiar Design?

Alex will be raising the prices on all of his Thesis skins in less than 2 days so if you like this look of a site feel free to check out the official Marketers Delight skin. It will look different than the one you see here, but there are a lot of things you can customize.

Check out Kolakube skins here
(not an aff link)

Overall – I’m very pleased with the design

I plan to make some graphics for the sidebar to link to some of my software projects, and pillar articles on my website but I didn’t want to make those until I saw the finished design first. What do you think of the new look? I’d love to see some comments below.

10 Comments

ON 06/12/12

Clint:

The design is nice, but there’s issues with images for the blog posts.

- ON 06/13/12
  
  Chris Guthrie:
  
  Yah – that is unrelated to the design. I had some things I had to fix.
  
ON 06/14/12

Steven:

Not bad, I’ll be trying it too on this new website I just launched.

ON 06/20/12

Raj:

Yes marketing delight is one of the coolest thesis skin for thesis wordpress theme

ON 06/22/12

Mike:

I think the new design is lovely– very clean and professional. I’ve nearly reached the apex of design that I can accomplish on my own with my Squarespace site. I need to either hire a professional or consider the move to WordPress. I also recently read that orange inspires action. Is that why your buttons are orange?

ON 06/29/12

Claire:

I think is looks great. Crisp and clear and things are easy to fiind. I went to the wayback machine and don’t feel quite so bad about my 2 week old Amazon Earnings blog now!

I think I’ll be buying the Marketers Delight after checking all the skins out, do you have affiliate links for it and Thesis Chris? I may as well start off on the right foot.

- ON 06/30/12
  
  Chris Guthrie:
  
  Sure here you go: https://upfuel.com/thesis
  
ON 07/03/12

Chris:

Great design. I really like the simplicity of it and the white space.

ON 08/02/12

Bret:

Chris-

Sweet redesign! We just redesigned our website over at diwyy.com on Marketer’s Delight 2 as well. We love this Thesis skin. Your site is well-done – there are not questions about what you are supposed to do on the site when you get here. We are looking at tweaking to make ours more clear.

How have opt-in rates responded post redesign?

Cheers,
Bret

- ON 08/02/12
  
  Chris Guthrie:
  
  Hey Bret,
  
  I haven’t even looked actually – lol I’ll go get on that.
  
  Chris