It has been a while that SIDETH.COM has been up running with 2-column layout since I first use this template in December 11, 2010. At the first time I thought that 2-column would be fine because it is very easy to ready the articles, and it is also to fit with the small computer screen of my readers. Looking at the same layout everyday make me feel so annoy. So I decide to change to new layout. At this point, I was think which layout I should change to.
I surf around on the internet to see other professional website, and I found that most of them using 3-column layout. Even though I am sure that I will change to 3-column, but I still hesitate whether I should organize 2-sidebar and content or sidebar-1 content and sidebar-2. Until today it is about 6 months already. And now I just change the layout to 3-column instead. Finally, I decided to choose sidebar-1 content and sidebar-2. The size of sidbar-1 is 195px, content column is 520px, and sidebar-2 is 300px. I prefer these sizes because it looks good to me.
The main reason that I want to change to this 3-column layout is because I want to see my site look new to me. Especially, I want this blog’s readers feel good and can spend more time reading this blog. Personally, I love this new design, but I am not sure if my readers like this design or not.
Do you like this blog’s layout?
Please let me know your idea.
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This site runs on the Thesis WordPress Theme
If you’re someone who doesn’t understand a lot of PHP, HTML, or CSS, Thesis will give you a ton of functionality without having to alter any code. For the advanced, Thesis has incredible customization possibilities via extensive hooks and filters. And with so many design options, you can use the template over and over and never have it look like the same site.
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I saw you progress in using Thesis. It is good to have our own design blog. Nice work! keep blogging.
Thank you for your encouragement. Yes I like this Thesis theme. It is so cool for me. I usually playing around with it, but not much because I am not good at coding. I love this layout and at the moment I do not have plan to change to another. This layout may remains for years in this blog.