Switching

Posted on Aug 30 in Bloggingby ApplePrint

Yesterday, I was busy switching my blog from Blogger classic template to new Blogger xml layout. Changing layout again? Yup. I started this blog early January this year, and pass eight months, I’ve made major changes to my blog layout for 4 times, including this! Whenever I find a comfortable layout, I will try to adopt it, hence many times of changing layout.

The very first version of A.P.P.L.E was hosted under old Blogger classic template. Then Neonplanet convinced me to swap to new Blogger, also known as Blogger Beta. I did managed to swap it and just changed the background images for the following months. Until I saw the blog template from Pannasmontata. However the templates available there are only suitable for Blogger classic template. In order to use that cute template, I switched back to the old Blogger.

Reasons of why I switched back to Blogger Beta:

• Good navigation handling. I like the “Older posts”, “Newer Posts” navigation at the end of each page.
• Label function. You can easily add a label widget and it will automatically display all labels.
• Search widget. This allow your visitors to search your blog content with provided keywords more accurately.

However, it is so difficult to modify the html xml codes, if compare to the classic template. In order to have what I want, I searched for blog hacks and implemented them. There are a lot of genius out there providing free blog hacks. As long as you pay attention to the instructions given, you will have what you want.

Within 8 months, these are the layouts that I’ve changed. Notice, I always change the acronyms…I think I will not change it anymore. I’ve found the best one…and that will be the final meaning of “APPLE”.

February 2007 v1.1

March 2007 v1.2

April 2007 v1.3

Late April 2007 v2.0

June 2007 v3.0

Late August 2007 v4.0

6 Comments

• LcF says:

  August 30, 2007 at 1:51 pm

  I like white background

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• Apple says:

  August 30, 2007 at 2:14 pm

  I’ve been thinking of using white background for some time. And now finally..hehe =)

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• NeonPlanet says:

  August 30, 2007 at 2:55 pm

  the labels, u can make them into label cloud. i suggest u tweak them yourself, don’t use those free label cloud service, coz mostly it looks awkward (just my opinion)

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• Apple says:

  August 30, 2007 at 3:05 pm

  Thanks for the suggestion. Ya, label cloud looks cool, i like those in your neonplanet blog. But I still prefer it this way.. LOL, maybe I’m just too lazy.

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• Wayne Liew says:

  August 30, 2007 at 4:59 pm

  I think the design is getting better and better every time you change it. Love the banner!

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• Apple says:

  August 31, 2007 at 10:10 am

  Thanks for the comment, wayne. =)

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