Blog Reviews

**manishkapoor1** · 03-13-2008, 01:51 PM

review My blog http://coolsmsjokes.blogspot.com/

Tell me what you think about design, how fast it loads and how it looks...

Thanks in advance.

**vangogh** · 03-13-2008, 08:04 PM

I like that the design is simple, though I can't say it's particularly exciting. The main content area is far to the right for me which creates a lot of empty space between it and the menu. I think that space would work better if it were on the right side instead of trapped between menu and content.

Here's a speed report for the site. It's a little slow, but not horribly so.

The AdSense is a little in your face for me, but I assume that's how you're monetizing the site and you should place it wherever it works best.

**manishkapoor1** · 03-14-2008, 11:27 AM

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Originally Posted by vangogh

I like that the design is simple, though I can't say it's particularly exciting. The main content area is far to the right for me which creates a lot of empty space between it and the menu. I think that space would work better if it were on the right side instead of trapped between menu and content.

Here's a speed report for the site. It's a little slow, but not horribly so.

The AdSense is a little in your face for me, but I assume that's how you're monetizing the site and you should place it wherever it works best.

Thnaks for your info. As you said that there is a lot pf space between content box and sidebar, CAN YOU GUIDE ME HOW CAN I FIX that as i don't know much about HTML. And one thing, i am using 800 X 600 pixels screen and it is looking good in 800 X 600. What is your screen pixels.

Lol waiting for your reply.....

**vangogh** · 03-14-2008, 08:03 PM

My screen resolution is 1920x1200 so it is much larger. Most people are using something larger than 800x600, though.

The change to get rid of the space isn't too hard, but it might be more than you want to attempt if you're not familiar with html.

Right now there's a div with an id="main-wrapper" and another div with an id="sidebar-wrapper" Both divs have a lot of content inside of them. The main-wrapper is basically everything on the right in your layout and the sidebar-wrapper is everything on the left. In your html all the code within main-wrapper comes before the code within sidebar-wrapper.

You'd need to switch it so the order is the sidebar-wrapper code comes first and then the main-wrapper content comes after. Then you would need to find this css style on main-wrapper

float: right

and change it to float: left

None of what I just described is hard, but if html isn't familiar to you it can be easy to make a mistake which would make the whole page look really bad and then be hard to figure out how to put things back.

If you're up for it make a copy of the page and try changing the copy to make sure you can get it right and also to make sure you have the original so you know you can put things back the way they are.

**Learning Newbie** · 03-14-2008, 08:42 PM

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Originally Posted by vangogh

None of what I just described is hard, but if html isn't familiar to you it can be easy to make a mistake which would make the whole page look really bad and then be hard to figure out how to put things back.

That means when you try making these changes, you need to save a backup copy of the old version, of how things are now. You don't need to hold onto it forever, only until you're sure you got it right, then you can dump your backup.

You can do this by coping and then pasting the current template out into a text editor on your desktop, assuming Blogger is like WordPress.

**vangogh** · 03-14-2008, 08:51 PM

Thanks for clarifying John. I probably should have been more clear.