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Life Rocks! 2.0 has a New Look

Posted by: Nirmal in Featured, Personal, Site News January 17, 2008 60 Comments 78 Views

As mentioned in my previous post, I was working on a theme for this blog for quite some time. As I was not able to find time to get it working, it took me more than a month to get the theme running. Well, I’m not a php expert although I had learned it few years back, so there could be bugs in this theme.

So presenting the new look of Life Rocks! 2.0.

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Features of new theme;

  • Better layout of posts and excerpts
  • Better readability
  • Improved navigation and much more
  • Theme tested in IE6, IE7, Firefox, Safari, Flock and Opera.

Please share your views on the new theme and also report any bugs and issues like alignment etc. Also, any new suggestions and improvements also welcome.

About Nirmal

Nirmal is a Technology Blogger and a Microsoft MVP in Windows. He can be contacted at nirmal@nirmaltv.com. You can find Nirmal on , and .
  • http://www.kuanhoong.com/ kuanhoong

    Congratulations on the new look :wink:

    Any plan to share out your wordpress design?

  • http://www.manast.com Manas

    I love blue….

    Great look man. I like the header section the most. :)

  • http://l33tzone.wordpress.com Atof

    Super theme :) Nice cool look…

  • http://blog.binnyva.com/ Binny V A

    Looks good. Are you going to make the old theme free?

  • http://www.nirmaltv.com nirmaltv

    @Kuanhoong,
    You mean to share this new design? I’m planning to share the old design may be some time later.

    @Manas and Atof,
    Glad you liked the theme.

    @Binny,
    Yea I’m planning to release the old theme.

  • http://www.killertechtips.com Shankar Ganesh

    Simply superb! :)

  • http://www.nirmaltv.com nirmaltv

    @Shankar,
    Thanks for feedback! :smile:

  • http://www.tothepc.com Davinder

    New look is awesome… header is looking very cool!

  • http://techyard.net Venkat

    Nirmal, A very neat theme. congrats.

  • http://www.nirmaltv.com nirmaltv

    @Davinder,
    Glad that you liked it. :smile:

  • http://www.nirmaltv.com nirmaltv

    @Venkat,
    Thanks for the feedback.

  • http://www.techlivez.com Shashank

    Fantastic theme Nirmal..congrats on the new look.

  • http://techblissonline.com/ Techblissonline Dot Com

    This Two column theme looks fabulous…good work nirmal…why don’t you ajaxify comment submission?

  • http://www.nirmaltv.com nirmaltv

    @Shashank,
    Thanks for the comments.

    @Rajesh,
    Few more changes are pending, I will take up Ajax comments at that time.

  • http://www.talentterminal.com Sucharith

    Looks much better now :mrgreen:

  • http://www.tecfre.com Kanak Bhandari

    Excellent nirmal … great design..Its look very very professional. One doubt .. how did you do that tabs on the sidebar .. is it javascript or any wordpress plugin ?? Rest all looks really great… Good work ..

  • http://www.nirmaltv.com nirmaltv

    @Kanak,
    Tabs on sidebar is Javascript and not a WP plugin.

  • http://www.teknobites.com ram

    Wow looks great. Nice work nirmal

  • http://jalaj.net/ Jalaj

    Congratulations for the good design… the blog post summaries certainly don’t look like from a blog but sort of magazine or so…

  • http://www.nirmaltv.com nirmaltv

    @Ram,
    Thanks for the feedback. :smile:

    @Jalaj,
    Glad that you liked it. :smile:

  • http://www.rakshitk.com/blog Rakshit

    Excellent design…
    It’s really very professional.

  • http://www.whoismadhur.com Madhur Kapoor

    Awesome buddy . The design is great. Who says you are not a php expert .

  • http://techie-buzz.com Keith Dsouza

    Awesome new design, I really loved the new design a lot. Keep it up. I am planning to spice up my home page too in a short while, could take some inspiration from you.

    Once again wonderful design buddy

  • http://www.shankrila.com/tech-stuff/top-wordpress-plugins/ K-IntheHouse

    Nirmal, great work all-around! You have got all the right elements in place to take your blog to the next level! Applause from ShanKri-la! :grin:

  • http://totalfreeware.net Ronald

    Nice design Nirmal, but the sitemeter has dropped, means not in footer line.

  • http://www.sizlopedia.com Dj Flush

    Amazing new look man. Lol now you honestly make me jealous hehe

  • http://slickmania.com Kyle Eslick

    Wow, looks great!

    I’m slow to come around to the magazine-style look on blog homepages, but I really like the single post pages!

  • http://www.techiesden.com Vaibhav

    Great looks, and really pro looks. And nice work in the comments section.

  • http://www.nirmaltv.com nirmaltv

    @Rakshit,
    Thanks for the appreciation.

    @Madhur,
    Thanks for the comment. It took me lot of time to code this entire stuff, that y I said not a php expert. :smile:

    @Keith,
    Glad that you liked it. :smile:

    @K-IntheHouse,
    Thanks for the comment. :smile:

    @DJ,
    Glad to hear you liked it. What abt your Live theme, that was awesome! :smile:

    @Ronald,
    I didnt get you on the sitemeter thing.

    @Kyle,
    Thanks for the appreciation. :smile:

    @Vaibhav,
    Glad that you liked it.

  • http://techalerts.blogspot.com Keshav Khera

    Great design buddy :smile: Really looks a lot more professional and magazine style :cool:

  • http://ashwinr.com/ Ashwin

    Really good! Do you do Theme Design for other blogs too? :smile:

    By the way, what font is it? IMO, it’s not good on the eyes.

  • http://www.nirmaltv.com nirmaltv

    @Ashwin,
    Thanks!
    The font is Trebuchet MS and I feel its a standard font and same as the one in my earlier theme. I think its showing diffrently in MAC.

  • http://www.siteguide.us Vijay

    The theme is fabulous Nirmal! Well designed I must say! I just wanted to point out that the signup to receive updates image on the top has a mis spelling!!

    Cheers on the new theme!

  • http://www.nirmaltv.com nirmaltv

    @Vijay,
    Thanks for pointing it out, I think it was a typo. :smile: I’ll change it soon.

  • http://www.techieportal.com/ Alfred

    Gratz on the new look, I really liked the homepage :D

  • http://www.websqdev.com Veerasundar

    Looks good. Great work on the portal.

  • http://www.nirmaltv.com nirmaltv

    @Alfred and Veerasunder,
    Thanks for the appreciation.

  • http://webtoolsandtips.com silki

    Awesome Nirmal.
    This theme is simple unique. Different from those usual 2-3 column themes. Header is really looking nice.
    The banner ad in header may be shifted slightly upwards to better align it with your tag line under “Life Rocks 2.0″.
    These days I am struggling to find time for blogging at a regular pace. So couldn’t visit your blog often.

  • http://ashwinr.com/ Ashwin

    No Nirmal, the font (both in posts and comments) looks difference now. Earlier it looked fine (I was on Mac that time too), but it’s weird and not easy on the eyes.

    Just try to view your site in Mac, you’ll know what I’m talking about.

  • http://www.technobuzz.net Raj

    Gr8 design nirmal :)

  • http://www.nirmaltv.com nirmaltv

    @Silky,
    Thanks for the suggestion and appreciation.

    @Ashwin,
    Will check it out. Actually I dont have any Mac, but will check the font issue.

    @Raj,
    Thanks for the comment.

  • http://www.brownbaron.com/blog/ Brown Baron

    Outstanding design buddy! I love it. A great start to a new year.

  • http://www.nirmaltv.com nirmaltv

    @BrownBaron,
    Thanks for the appreciation.

  • http://www.vinodlive.com Vinod

    This is by far the most deviant wordpress theme I’ve seen lately. Many congratulations.

  • http://www.smackall.com Smackall

    Nice theme Nirmal. I really liked the home page design. Great work. Meanwhile…

    Few bugs…

    tested using firefox/XP

    in the homepage the small topics of each post which have multiline are cut in the second line…

  • http://www.nirmaltv.com nirmaltv

    @Vinod,
    Thanks for the appreciation.

    @Smackall,
    I didnt get your bug, can you pls mail me the screenshot?

  • http://www.online-tech-tips Aseem

    Great new design. Impressive work !
    Keep up the good blogging !

  • http://www.nirmaltv.com nirmaltv

    @Aseem,
    Thanks for the comment. :smile:

  • http://prasansvision.blogspot.com Rajavanya

    Gr8 look here…
    I was amazed at the look.

  • http://tech-buzz.net Thilak

    Looks impressive, especially the homepage. The sitemeter chicklet inside the footer is flooding out. Try adding display:none; to hide it.

  • http://www.nirmaltv.com nirmaltv

    @Thilak,
    Thanks for the suggestion. I’ll implement that.

  • http://www.lytebyte.com Joel

    Hey Nirmal…this looks cool…congratulations on the new layout…maybe you should increase the font size for the post contents…its kinda look very tiny…I am not sure if thats only for me or for everyone…

  • http://www.nirmaltv.com nirmaltv

    @Joel,
    I’ll check and increase the font. Thanks for the comments. Nice to see you after a long time.

  • Ravichandra

    Hey… this theme looks gud. The first thing that caught my sight is the two line layout for the blogs.

    Good work Nirmal. :eek:

  • http://www.cristianr.com CristianR

    Amazing theme Nirmal. Good job.

  • http://latinaontravel.com Ms. Latina Renee

    Very nice!

  • http://www.nazjam.com Nasirjumani

    Looking Nice and briefly designed now…

  • http://www.anewmorning.com Moin

    Fell in love with this theme! :O

  • http://www.zath.co.uk Zath

    Until a few weeks ago, I hadn’t visited for quite some time, but when I saw the new theme, I thought it really made the site very cool and very professional!

    Well done!

  • http://www.pcdrome.com Anurag

    Great Job Dude…
    Theme Really Rocks..
    Never Seen This Type Of Theme Ever…
    Have You Completely Designed By On Your Own????

    http://www.pcdrome.com

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