Comments on: Should I Completely Change This Blog’s Layout?

By: Blogger to Wordpress Migration, With Redirects! — Tiny Subversions Tiny Subversions

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 22:54:39 +0000

[...] Also, I’d like to thank everyone who contributed information when I wrote about my troubles migrating last month. [...]

By: Nikkiana

Nikkiana — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 20:59:48 +0000

I've wanted to retheme your blog since I first saw it… *shuffles*

By: David McGraw

David McGraw — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 04:55:07 +0000

Personally, when it comes to websites, staring at the same ol' thing gets old.

I think changing an element (banner, for example) is a smart thing to do every few months. Give your readers something new to look at.

The entire theme should be changed rarely, but a change is certainly welcomed at some point. We wouldn't want to be staring at the same yahoo page from 1998.

So, yeah, mix it up. See what you can come up with.

Your readers don't read your blog because of your theme. If you're ready for a change, change it up.

By: Dan S

Dan S — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 17:33:06 +0000

There's not only page-rank to worry about (which, in any case, I would like to think Google can handle, for 301's) -- there's also the links to your blogger articles.

And we all hate it when bloggers break our links.

So address that, on a hunch, I googled:
meta redirect blogger

And the first hit speaks to you, with Javascript to automate the page-by-page redirection:

By: Max

Max — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 09:07:02 +0000

Consult the inspiration wolf, he is your new i-ching:
http://www.juanpablopatino.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/inspiration_wolf.jpg

By: Darke

Darke — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 22:50:32 +0000

One suggestion if you are thinking of to change your blogspot layout around is to move the toolbar on the left side. Every time I visit your site I'm thrown off for a second because everything is on the left!

By: Pragmacat

Pragmacat — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 16:59:09 +0000

Quite simply: yes. Purdy it up.

By: Max Nichols

Max Nichols — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 15:41:56 +0000

I think you should go for a change. One of your blog's strengths is that it's very memorable… but it achieves that more through shock than anything else, hah. I think if you can find a new theme that still retains some of that individuality – and I have no doubt that you can – then you should go for it.

You'll also have access to the Akismet spam filter for your comments if you switch to WordPress, which I've always been extremely happy with. I don't know if there is an equivalent for your current system or not.

By: Susan Gold

Susan Gold — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 08:48:34 +0000

I always read through RSS feeds, so I don't ever really visit the blog itself, I haven't seen what it looked like since Google Reader came out.

By: Matthew Weigel

Matthew Weigel — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 06:28:01 +0000

Weird. That tutorial didn't explain anything about how it manages to avoid starting anew with PageRank, it just seemed to discuss migrating your blog. I guess the 301 redirects were implicit in there somewhere.

My one caveat would be to consider Serendipity (s9y.org) instead of WordPress. Of course I'm the only game dev blogger I know not using WP, but I've been impressed with its features out of the box and how easy it is to hack on.