Another site you should check in the future if you’re looking for a freelancer is oDesk (http://www.odesk.com). It’s free to post a job and unlike other sites, there are no membership fees. oDesk has made it very easy for both providers and buyers to keep track of work hours through oDesk Team, eliminating the need for time sheets (and miscommunication). One of the neat things about oDesk is also the ability to communicate easily with your offshore team members. It’s got a rating system, too, so you’ll find it easy to use!

~Michelle, oDesk

Another site you should check in the future if you’re looking for a freelancer is oDesk (http://www.odesk.com). It’s free to post a job and unlike other sites, there are no membership fees. oDesk has made it very easy for both providers and buyers to keep track of work hours through oDesk Team, eliminating the need for time sheets (and miscommunication). One of the neat things about oDesk is also the ability to communicate easily with your offshore team members. It’s got a rating system, too, so you’ll find it easy to use!

~Michelle, oDesk

Totally agree about hotspots and there’s no way I’m going to put a logo or something of low value in a hotspot. Blogs that have HUGE headers just don’t make sense to me – why make users scroll to see the important stuff?

John Chow’s new theme is interesting…his header is awful. On my laptop I only see one line of content above the fold. I think he’s gone too far trying to push his affiliate deals by packing them in at the top, but, the thing is, his readers are loyal and won’t leave, so it won’t affect his traffic and will probably push up his earnings. So is his theme successful from a revenue perspective? Yes. From a design perspective? No

Totally agree about hotspots and there’s no way I’m going to put a logo or something of low value in a hotspot. Blogs that have HUGE headers just don’t make sense to me – why make users scroll to see the important stuff?

John Chow’s new theme is interesting…his header is awful. On my laptop I only see one line of content above the fold. I think he’s gone too far trying to push his affiliate deals by packing them in at the top, but, the thing is, his readers are loyal and won’t leave, so it won’t affect his traffic and will probably push up his earnings. So is his theme successful from a revenue perspective? Yes. From a design perspective? No

Human eyes and search engine crawlers all start in the top left corner … it’s the hottest spot on the page. It’s the place to showcase contetn … not place a picture or logo that is around on every page, every day.

That’s a real strength of Typo XP, the most current article … and an advertising slot … are in the “hottest spot” on the page.

Human eyes and search engine crawlers all start in the top left corner … it’s the hottest spot on the page. It’s the place to showcase contetn … not place a picture or logo that is around on every page, every day.

That’s a real strength of Typo XP, the most current article … and an advertising slot … are in the “hottest spot” on the page.

I’m definitely not putting a logo on the left. It adds no value to the site, and will only create noise around my only adsense unit that still accounts for nearly 50% of my income.

@Nirmal

John Chow was actually one of the last people to roll out a new theme. The new problogger and gHacks themes are the ones that made me decide to change. They incorporated things I wanted to add, and I quickly decided it was easier to start from fresh and get a theme built. I also decided it was time to invest some of my blog earnings, and what better way than to get a new theme built?

@Mathew

thanks – will have a look

I’m definitely not putting a logo on the left. It adds no value to the site, and will only create noise around my only adsense unit that still accounts for nearly 50% of my income.

@Nirmal

John Chow was actually one of the last people to roll out a new theme. The new problogger and gHacks themes are the ones that made me decide to change. They incorporated things I wanted to add, and I quickly decided it was easier to start from fresh and get a theme built. I also decided it was time to invest some of my blog earnings, and what better way than to get a new theme built?

@Mathew

thanks – will have a look

An idea for a better designer than I … look at the concept of the way we used to store info in thick 3-ring binders … saving up research notes to write a book for example. When the binder began to get full we add divider pages with tabs to show the contents at a glance … if the book got really full we could add dividers with tabs along the top of the binder (kind of the the tabs on the top edge of the Typo theme … so look at a model that resembles a three-ring binder with tabs along the top and the side … or maybe the bottom to allow the text to be handled easily … I have yet to see a theme that mimics the very smart way Microsoft Excel handles the tabs for the infinite number of worksheets one can place in a workbook … surely that Uni-dropout Gates isn’t the only guy smart enough to implement pages and categories/tags that way?

Keep us posted on the new design.

An idea for a better designer than I … look at the concept of the way we used to store info in thick 3-ring binders … saving up research notes to write a book for example. When the binder began to get full we add divider pages with tabs to show the contents at a glance … if the book got really full we could add dividers with tabs along the top of the binder (kind of the the tabs on the top edge of the Typo theme … so look at a model that resembles a three-ring binder with tabs along the top and the side … or maybe the bottom to allow the text to be handled easily … I have yet to see a theme that mimics the very smart way Microsoft Excel handles the tabs for the infinite number of worksheets one can place in a workbook … surely that Uni-dropout Gates isn’t the only guy smart enough to implement pages and categories/tags that way?

Keep us posted on the new design.