What Do You Think Of The New Layout?

As you can no doubt tell, I launched a brand new look for The Information Technology Thought of the Day website today!  I know that many of you will no like the change because you have become familiar with the old layout and interface, but a few factors combined to influence my decision.

1. Spam. Wordpress.com removed my original theme from their marketplace.  The sited the previous theme developer for using their theme to spread spam.  I can neither confirm nor deny that this was happening, but I suspect that they know better than me what the underlying code was doing.
2. Features. My old theme would not play well with Ajax features or Digg.com.  Basically, I was unable to take advantage of many of the newest web technologies and I wanted to be able to do that.  For a preview, take a look at my new extended footer, the area at the bottom of the page.  That is one feature that my new theme provides that my old one did not.
3. Expandability.  As our blog grows up, I have begun to consider paying for a premium theme so that I can work through updates to WordPress (the underlying machine that powers the blog) without changing appearances.  The company that produced my new theme, Themes by bavotasan.com, offers upgrades that I may want to seek in the future.  I am trying before buying.

So, please share your feedback on our new layout.  You can use the comments section for this post or use the “contact me” button near the top of the page to give me that feedback.

Thank you for your readership and patience during this change.

-Scott

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