Tag: simple
Wordpress Theme Review: The Enhancing Spring (plus! some tips on blogs)
by Zepht on Oct.07, 2009, under Design reviews, Portfolio

A green, pleasingly plain theme. It works for blog shops because of that pleasantness and its SEO-friendly attributes built in.It is a good theme for words because the full width is optimised, and the widgets are neatly stacked to the right side. The black colour bottom you see on this screenshot holds the “Blogroll”, “Archives” and “featured sites” .
Yup, this theme is nothing special. Like most things on Earth, the important thing is what’s inside: the substance. The thing that sets a blog apart from another are: 1) theme 2) user-friendly interface 3) content.
The 1st 2 criteria are somewhat linked together, unless you like to customise your themes, and make them suit your liking. The content of the blog, is the soul of it. A weak soul does not attract traffic; a weak person does not attract followers. I have seen websites with simple themes such as The Enhancing Spring having a lot of traffic. Sometimes, the comments add up to be longer than the admin’s posts itself!
a tip: one of the most hated thing amongst readers is that the writer says a lot of stuff, but mean nothing at all. Thats right, meaning nothing at all. Saying things such as “The weather is fine, and the sun is rising up like a spectacular phoenix” is perfect as introduction to a post.But if the rest of the post is all something similiar to the line written, it serves no purposes to the website and to the reader. If you want to share something, share it in a way everyone will understand, by removing your personal context of the matter, if necessary. If you feel like you don’t want to share a feeling, do not type up tons of junk for people to guess how you are feeling. Save yourself, and others the time, and be considerate, by not sharing at all, at least online.
Like someone said: Don’t just show the U part of the W. If that is the case, don’t even show the U.

