Taking The New Theme Out For A Test Drive

Hey John how come your theme uses American money instead of Canadian money in the images?
Is our money not good enough? :)

IE7 still gives javascript errors - John at Sitefever traced it back to the Avatars plugin. It might be worth trying to solve, else IE users that have error alerts turned on (as any good webmaster should), gets spammed with an error dialog for every comment :/

I like the new theme a lot, but I really think you should buy one of the super cars that you feature in your header sometime :razz: Perhaps when you're up to six figures a month you'll do it?

No matter how many times you re-design this site, your still a big fake, just like your other friends who claim to be DOT-SCUM-MOGULS.

First of all, you NOT EVEN CLOSE TO BEING a REAL DOT-COM MOGUL. The word "MOGUL" is reserved for VERY RICH AND POWERFUL people. John Chow is neither any of them. REAL DOT-COM MOGULS are billionaires, people who've taken their companies to astronomical levels (ie. Google). Associating yourself with such an EXCLUSIVE group is not only laughable but also very pathetic and makes you look like a big time POSER (no matter what your Get-Rich-Scheme, click able ads or E-Book may claim).

Just because you make more than 5K or even 20K a month still doesn't make you a MOGUL but more like a wanna-be rich boy, who likes to blog about exotic cars (that you can never afford) or cheesy five-star restaurants that not one cares about.

Unless, you can prove to the world and your little penises (followers) that the Almighty John Chow is a real DOT COM MOGUL....Your nothing but a walking infomercial that people laugh about on late night TV.

Why don't you walk into a Ferrari dealership and buy a F430 with Cash? Where is your 20 million dollar mansion? Where is your vacation home in Colorado or Hawaii? If you really had these luxurious toys, you'd also be arrogant enough to show it off to the entire world and post a video on YouTube.

YOU LIKE TO TALK BIG but don't have the money or market dominance to prove it. The real John Chow probably drives a Mini-van and has mortgage payments to make.

So, unless you can prove to world that you're a REAL DOT-COM MOGUL, all your talk is a bunch of hot air. I would rather take advice from some real DOT-COM-BILLIONAIRE than some middle-age fortune teller who's looking more like a used car salesman everyday.

Congrats, the second top site with a "Nascar" style.

This reminds me of "Tom's Hardware page" about 10 years ago. It was written by a German Doctor who enjoyed PC hardware in his spare time. It used to be a great site with all the latest PC hardware news... then one day - bang - it was just full of ads & affiliates.

That was my user experience, and it reminded me of that day.

John, new theme looks excellent, nicely customized by Nate. Cheers Mate Dave..P.S - Nate might be hearing from me ;).

Nate did a good job. The new blog design is pretty sweet! I was impressed when I opened it up today and saw the new arrangement. I like it.

This looks great !!!!!!!!!! I have no words to describe.

I absolutely love this theme. It's clean and organized but very web 2.0 at the same time. Sharp, bright, but still simple enough not to be too flashy. It's just right! Great job Nate. :)

I also like how there are the popular articles and subscribe sections. I'm looking to eventually do something like that with my own blog.

Fantastic work, Nate. John, I think you have a keeper. :)

finally god knows how long it took to get down here to comment! nice stuff! :D make that money maker!

WoW
Your old design looks like crap compared to this one, two thumbs up

Much better John! Keep it up!

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Good work Nate. It looks much more refined.

Love the new layout John. Looks awesome!

Nice theme even though my new theme is better. could have simply asked and i would have done a better job.... :lol:
Kabatology:Open Source, Linux

Hey John,
Nice look. One humble suggestion I have is to get rid of the Zonda pic and push your content higher above the fold.

The top is valuable web real estate, and you shouldn't waste it on a generic pic. Also, you should consider making some kind of highly brandable logo... something like the logo @ therichjerk.com

Yeah, I have to agree with everyone else. This is a really great design.

Is this the side of a NASCAR car or a blog? John, you should know better and focus on content rather than the advertisements.

I like that you always keep a car in the banner

I was wondering when you were going to get a new theme. :)
Everything looks great. The only thing I don't like is the post and comments rss buttons. They look a bit 2000ish.

Your site is a community site -- lots of people reading and commenting. So instead of giving today's date (or the date of the posting) such high real estate, it would be really cool to instead see the NUMBER of comments made for that post. And of course, hyperlink it to the comments section.

The date posting really isn't very important for a site like yours. But if you feel the community is important, then give the comments # a higher profile. Your users will like it!

Way too complicated for me...luckily Google Reader exists!

I LOVE the new look. I just loaded it up, and was taken back. I forgot that you were switching themes. It's nice to look at. I just loaded it up and sat here staring for a few moments and was mesmorized :smile:

hey john ure new theme kicks ass...

changes are welcome but some changes I suggest , "car " in header is taking too much space ( though it's really eye catching ) , plus I know sponsors paying 500 $/month but there rectangle ads can be little shrinked & links section should be in sidebar ,not just sitting in bottom :cool:

just my views & thoughts :roll:

I like it, but I would remove auctionads from recommended money makers.

I like it all, Good update. :roll:

Oh wow, just noticed the footer... I like that as well. The text under the Recommended Moneymakers is a bit small for my taste but all in all, I like it.

I like it all except for the $100 bills in the top left corner. They look cheesy.

One minor glitch...cant really call it a glitch but perhaps you can do something about it. I'm on Safari with 1048 x * resolution the page has horizontal scroll. Maybe the content wrap is too big...just a thought to help improve visitors experience..thats all.

cheers
eugene

My first impression of the new theme...a little bit cluttered, too many stuff on the sidebar but after several minutes of browsing, it actually looks pretty good. Maybe just needed to get used to the new design.

Good update. :)

very nice.
its better than the old one.

Great theme! It looks very nice :grin:

It looks nice :smile:

At 1024x768 resolution, FireFox, there's a horizontal scrollbar present. I think it should not be there.

Out Of Topic Suggestion:
If possible, paginating the comments would save loading time :mrgreen:

New theme looks great! Finally it looks as professional as it should being a site as popular as it is!

Now you'll have to do a new design of TTZ and start getting more content published on it or it'll fall behind! lol.

cool !! Great theme

Still love the Pagani Zonda :twisted:

At first, I found the new design extremely overwhelming. There is SO much going on at the top, but I think I'm getting used to it. One suggestion I would make is to change the post title. Make it a bit bigger and thicker.

Love the new look, change is good! However, the thick bar on the left of the content seems like a waste of space just to hold the date of the post.

AWESOME redesign... it seems like a faze that the big money bloggers are going through.... who's next Shoemoney????

John I love you and your blog, but I'm afraid this design doesn't do it for me! :sad: I'm instantly overwhelmed with everything going on above the fold, and if I didn't know the site already, I might not scroll down to get to the posts. I really liked the clean design from before.

Thanks for the opportunity to give feedback - hope it helps.
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John, you tested it in multiple browsers but did you test it in multiple resolutions? I'm in 1024x768 and when I first load the page I cant even see the first post. The header is a bit large.

But other than that, looks great!

I'm curious to see what the TLA advertisers will think being pushed down below the fold.