My New Blog - The Smaller Bang

I am a web designing n00b, but I finally had the guts to decide to start a proper blog. Its titled The Smaller Bang, and its hosted in blogger. Please tell me how it is and please give me tips for its improvement.

*thesmallerbang.blogspot.com

I have posted only 3 posts till now, and my blog as of now is plain, empty and uncommented. I did manage to find a way(myself) to have categories in blogger, and I am extremely happy due to it.

Comments to help are welcome.

Black background is not suitable for reading. The words appeared more blurred on black background. So please change the background

and I will suggest you have a color scheme revamp!

^^Nice name... Change the font color.. It doesn't look good against a black background..

rohan_shenoy said:
Black background is not suitable for reading. The words appeared more blurred on black background. So please change the background and I will suggest you have a color scheme revamp!

I thought Black Background adds to the overall look and feel.
I want a dark background coupled with bright text.

nvidia said:
^^Nice name... Change the font color.. It doesn't look good against a black background..

OK, will change.

I like the black background... Looks nice, but its true that you cant read very long articles with that background..

hows it now ?
and how about some comments ? It does look very empty as of now...

Make that a little lighter... Should look better...

nvidia said:
Make that a little lighter... Should look better...

OK, will try.

M

make fonts little lighter as suggested by nvidia..

and put several more labels which makes sense about your post..

try using space on right near welcome line, category and archieves.. later on u can put ads below it to make ur blog an earning blog

hows it now ? I tried white on black

mastermunj said:
make fonts little lighter as suggested by nvidia..

and put several more labels which makes sense about your post..

try using space on right near welcome line, category and archieves.. later on u can put ads below it to make ur blog an earning blog

The palace to the right and left is left blank by google. No idea why. Guess the theme is that way

M

try arranging things and see different combinations... later u can change fonts suitable to ur arrangements... design ur page nicely so that u can use maximum space of it for showing variety of information...

remember, more the ads mixed with ur content more are chances to get clicks and earnings.. this is if you plan to put ad on ur blog..

is it better now ? I made lots of edits

M

decent... do one thing... keep this one as it is..

create a new blog one for testing...and make all ur research and new changes in that one..

once u feel that now it is fine to make those changes live... make them appear on your this blow..

this way u will have a live blog and one development blog...

mastermunj said:
decent... do one thing... keep this one as it is..

create a new blog one for testing...and make all ur research and new changes in that one..

once u feel that now it is fine to make those changes live... make them appear on your this blow..

this way u will have a live blog and one development blog...

instead, I can just export the blog template (with customisation) as an XML Doccument and download it.

Hows greenish look for a tech blog ?

M

greenish is good.. but change ur font accordingly to make it look perfect techie

mastermunj said:
greenish is good.. but change ur font accordingly to make it look perfect techie

see it now. The current latest post might put you off though, as its supposed to be a set of simple notes.

Ah... Now it looks really nice...

M

looks neat and pretty clean... good one...

nice blog!

Nice, though I would strongly recommend going for a self owned one. The money spent will be worth it. Off course you might come across times where you will have to just throw 149/- as charity but the thrill of having your own thing is a great high.

N

nice blog

The blog looks nice now. I've been trying to set up my own blog since the past 2-3 years, but I just can't come up with a theme for it, something to write about!!

iMav said:
Nice, though I would strongly recommend going for a self owned one. The money spent will be worth it. Off course you might come across times where you will have to just throw 149/- as charity but the thrill of having your own thing is a great high.

I know, but I have other plans for my money.
I think I will wait now, see how well this blog goes, and if the response is high and people like it, I will get myself Paid Hosting, with a Joomla Website, SMF Forum and a WoedPress blog.

Till such a time, Blogger FTW.
And for website, Googlepages FTW.

why waste time.
if you are serious get a domain and start writing in there.

@ gautham, nice work, keep going. Maybe somday, ill ask u tips on starting one on my own. Have a myspace blog, which just gets the work done but its too limited.
Anyways keep up the good work. And do update it with more info abt light distros like vector, slax, etc.

Bikalpa

a_k_s_h_a_y said:
why waste time.
if you are serious get a domain and start writing in there.

Why waste money ?
Dude, students like me are limited on resources.
And even if I DID have resources, I would have thought twice before getting a domain.
How bad would it look if there is a dumb blog on a good looking domain/hosting/themed website?
besides, everything on my blog is always archieved in my PC.

Only when I personally feel sure of my own abilities will I make some monetary investment on a blog.

In my current state, you will be surprised at what people are willing to do to hoard cash.(sheesh, all this for a laptop I am buying an year later, I must add

)

bikdel said:
Anyways keep up the good work. And do update it with more info abt light distros like vector, slax, etc.

Bikalpa

no probs. I will basically review live CDs and install times of different distros, their performance, theme, look and feel, etc.

hey guys, I submited my blog to ThinkDigit.com's official blog roll.
Its still not in it.
Any idea why ?

By now, I am really getting the hang of publishing and/or posting entries on the blog.

Can someone tell me how the entries look now ?

looks nice but the gap b/w two posts is too less to make them look two.
either increase the gap or make the heading font size large

T159 said:
looks nice but the gap b/w two posts is too less to make them look two.
either increase the gap or make the heading font size large

dunno how to increase gap.

if I increase headding font size, all fonts are increased in size.

add a <br /> at the end of post content

i hope u can edit the html and CSS

T159 said:
add a <br /> at the end of post content

i hope u can edit the html and CSS

read the first post

its like editing text and formatting, no big deal

ask someone who has blog on blogger.com, cuz he may know the actual classes and id to edit them .

T159 said:
its like editing text and formatting, no big deal

ask someone who has blog on blogger.com, cuz he may know the actual classes and id to edit them .

any and every blogger I know is a WordPress user

I'm on blogger!

I love blogging so much and much and mu..... that I deleted my blog on blogger.com 2 years back :lol:

-simply put -I lack English!

.

well,a firangi gal got the blog after I left it :twisted:

ladkiyan peeche peeche?

how come firangi gal got ur blog ?

well,if we delete the blogger a/c ,then someone who searched for it can get!

see : *pjklinux.blogspot.com

^^yeah but she seems to be in linux too

may be the real point is something else

Btw...get a domain for yourself and start anew on some ideas and thoughts you love to share.

may be I will need festival to be installed.I hate typing loong essays you know

^^ Looks to me like a splog. I have a feeling your linux girl is actually someone with a ding-dong...

goobimama said:
I'm on blogger!

I know.
You are the only other guy I know on blogger.

can someone comment on my new theme ?

Nice..When there are hundreds of thems(templates) available for free,you could have gone for a better one..

New said:
Nice..When there are hundreds of thems(templates) available for free,you could have gone for a better one..

I have NO idea where to get good templates. Most of the templates on the internet leave a thick strip free on both sides, and this I hate.

Right..That was the real problem for me too..Finally I got one which has minimal strip on both the sides.Have a look here..

Take a look at my latest post guys:

The Swordsman who fights with a Paper Sword - Me and My PC

This one I get a bit personal, but hey... its still something.

MetalheadGautham said:
I have NO idea where to get good templates. Most of the templates on the internet leave a thick strip free on both sides, and this I hate.

Well I would highly suggest you use a fixed width layout, that is, the thick strip on the sides. Sometimes my browser uses all of the screen space and it becomes really hard to read loooooong lines of text (as in your blog). Keep your text width a maximum of 600px, although 500 px would be still better.

Secondly, there is very little contrast throughout your colour scheme. Some contrasting elements have to be introduced. Or at least lighten the blue background...

goobimama said:
Well I would highly suggest you use a fixed width layout, that is, the thick strip on the sides. Sometimes my browser uses all of the screen space and it becomes really hard to read loooooong lines of text (as in your blog). Keep your text width a maximum of 600px, although 500 px would be still better.

Secondly, there is very little contrast throughout your colour scheme. Some contrasting elements have to be introduced. Or at least lighten the blue background...

The problem is that the site looks ugly on my computer at 1024x768 as I normally view it. Also, a majority of internet surfers surf the web at that resolution. Since neither I nor are most of my audience having high resolution monitors, I chose that theme.

This is only a standby theme, because currently nothing looks ugly as it is. Everything is fine now although a bit old fashioned looking. So I am keeping this till I figure out how to get myself something better.

Hey guys, My current blog, on wordpress, *thesmallerbang.wordpress.com made it on google search and googling for the smaller bang wordpress gives my blog as the first item.

I am happy at last.