Hey Guys, Though I am not a designer, I have customized this blog and would like you guys to comment on this. I do get good traffic on the site and was thinking of redesigning it. I am running this on Joomla. I appreciate your constructive feedback. Information Madness
I think as a general rule of thumb all blogs should be based on WordPress. There's a whole lot more flexibility with WP and there are thousands of fantastic looking themes. If you decide to switch to it, just be careful with the transition -- you've got an established user base and you don't want to lose them by having extended periods of downtime and/or changing to a theme that they don't like. Remember that simplicity is key. All the best!
Actually I don't want to switch to WordPress. I like joomla much better. There is a lot of flexibility and more component based structure. I am sure wordpress might have similar features but I would stick to Joomla. It gives nice portal look. I just want to customize the template that I am using.
Too many ads, you are selling in too many places. Plus you promote one of your advertisers twice on the blog...kinda gives me the impression you are focused on promotion of this one thing. ICICI Bank.
In that case I think you should choose another cleaner template or completely overhaul the one you are currently using. At the moment it's extremely hard to find and focus on the main content (the blog entries themselves) as they're surrounded by countless ads and other links. If you're not generating any decent amount of revenue with ContentLinks I'd seriously consider getting rid of them. I know they've been designed to be unobtrusive, but as a frequent blog reader I find them really annoying and will actually completely turn me off particular blogs. For the actual design itself, I can't really offer any information as I don't know what kind of design flexibility and customization Joomla offers. Good luck Liam
Thanks Laim and jdrenterprises, for the comments. I think its high time to remove kontera. Also I am using one Indian advertising service which is I believe not doing good. So I think I should remove that as well but I am waiting for its minimum payout. once I reach there, I will remove it. Let me know if you think of something else.
I did eliminate the top ad, bottom ad. So now I have only couple of ads running. I have also disabled Kontera. It was not performing well either.
I don't see the ads thanks to adblock, but I'd say add a bit of color on you blog... or at least, some background in order to hightlight the main area (i.e post content, sidebars etc).
The text size of the content is very small, this make the ads look better than content. When i opened a page of tv channels, i observed 4 ad placements, This is against the terms of google. U must have only 3 max. placements/page. But the information is good and the links at the top are messed up in my firefox. They are just scattered and not in order. Once check it out too.
Which TV channels page are you talking about? I have only two google ad blocks on my page. And thats it. I don't put more than 3 ads on my site.
i think the white color as background and orange color as border is don't match color, may be you can choose a different color