TechBuzz v3 Beta

I was luck when I got a invite to try BlogAds from Darren Rowse, I was still more lucky when I got a advertiser through BlogAds, but there wasn’t enough room for these BlogAds on my previous theme. It also received lots of criticism regarding the color scheme and layout and this was yet another reason to design a new theme. But I didn’t have time and patience to design, so I took Refresh and ported it to wordpress.

I’ve tested this new theme in Opera, Firefox 2 and Internet Explorer 7, my friends say it works fine it IE 6 too (That’s really great). I’m looking for volunteers to test this theme on other browsers. I have already received few text messages from my friends, who praise this new theme. I hope you like it too.

This new theme isn’t XHTML friendly right now, some pages might be broken, but I’m working on it and everything should normalize within a day or two, till then keep reporting bugs to me through comments or email [me@thilakraj.com] 

- Thanks

This post was published by on December 9, 2006

About the Author: Thilak Rao works as a Social Media Expert. He is one of the first professional bloggers from India, and he loves to write, travel and click photos. Follow him on Twitter @thilak

  • http://ajaydsouza.com/ Ajay D’Souza

    Looks good, as I told you over IM. Still hoping you are able to invite me to BlogAds :D

  • http://www.visualreactor.org Rohit

    Nice theme :) … Looks good in Firefox 1.5.0.8

  • http://go64now.com Mr.Cool

    Hey This theme looks really good Thilak ! its better than the previous one. But one suggestion – its time you make a site logo. It’ll improve the look :)

    And hey, dont you use YM frequently ? I sent you a request ages ago and still no reply !

  • http://stevenbao.com Steven Bao

    I like it… it’s clean, and it’s nice. Good work.
    The header is a bit misaligned though.

  • http://tech-buzz.net Thilak

    Thanks everyone, I have already installed IE7, so I can’t check this theme on IE6 could you guys please send a screenshot to me ?

    Mr.Cool: Y!M rarely use it thesedays, Anyway I have accepted your invite. Thanks

  • Karthik

    Hey thilak this looks really cool.. as i said on the IM.. I like the idea of getting a logo for your site as this will improve the branding of tech-buzz..

  • http://tech-world.info Vikram

    Hey thilak this Theme Looks gud in Firefox than IE6.

  • http://www.vincentchow.net Vincent

    Finally I more user friendly theme. Your previous theme was too bright for me. By the way, I hope I can have blogads invitation too. :(

  • http://www.bloganything.net fuad

    your theme is good. try this one to check its compatibality with various internet browsers.. http://browsershots.org/

  • http://www.afterlife69.com Afterlife(69)

    I love the new theme, in fact. It inspired me to create a new one for ShuttleBB.com

    http://img143.imageshack.us/img143/1282/shuttlebbv3ku2.jpg heres a little preview.

  • http://www.freakitude.com Lovedeep Wadhwa

    Working almost fine with IE 5.50

  • http://tech-buzz.net Thilak

    faud: Thanks for the link, its was dumped in my bookmarks, but I never used it. Thanks for reminding it to me.

    Afterlife(69): wow, the header looks cool. I’m eager to see the final theme

    Vincent: Check this out:
    http://web.blogads.com/Documents/blogger_faq#How_can_I_invite_other_bloggers_to_join_blogads

    Some of my friends have also asked for a invite, but only few publishers have the privilege of inviting. I’ll email them about this. I’ll send you an invite once I get it.

  • http://www.wisetome.com/splat Vyoma

    Well, well, well.

    Nice theme here you got, Thilak. It is very easy on eyes, and I see no place here that I should critique about. Good work on the porting front too.

    Lately, I have been fiddling with the WordPress theme for my blog, Splat. I am making one from scratch, and it is about halfway through.

  • http://tech-buzz.net Thilak

    Vikram: Do you still have IE6 ?

    Vyoma: Ah.. thats nice. Can we see a preview ?

  • http://www.wisetome.com/splat Vyoma

    OK. Here goes is quick screen shot:

    Splat Screen Shot

    That is just the front page. I still need to work on the single page and other nitty gritty stuff.

  • http://tech-buzz.net Thilak

    Vyoma: I must admit that the new theme looks super cool, but you need to change the feed icon to some other color.. . maybe black or blue. You can download the PSD format of the image from feedicon.com

    Good Luck

  • http://www.wisetome.com/splat Vyoma

    Hey. Thanks for pointing that out. It is added to my to-do list for the theme.

  • http://www.helloashok.com/ Ashok

    Nice theme web 2.0 compatible. rounder corners make it more attractive

  • http://tech-world.info Vikram

    Yes i was using IE6.. but now iam using Firefox 2.8 :)

  • http://sindhu.says.it sindhu

    ok nice theme :D am very pleased with this one. lovely web 2.0 feel…nice warmmm colors mmm :D tasty!

    but the header bg or the container whatever…the body container the footer…they look choppy in FF , u shld check that out you know

  • http://sindhu.says.it sindhu

    and PS : u need to work on the typo thing. what’s like ” i was luck…” ? *see the start of the post, dont you think it should be i was lucky? and get that silly borders off for smileys men!

  • http://blogosquare.blog.mu Hans

    this theme is really cool. lots of fresh space in there ;)

  • http://www.cypherhackz.net CypherHackz

    wow… really nice. i like this theme. cool man…

  • http://digitalmail.blogspot.com atul

    thilak can we apply directly to blogadds , do we need invitation , please guide me how can i fetch some from my blog , because even you know that now in comming time everybody know about adsense , and it’s not easy to earn from it

  • http://techtites.com/ Ajay

    Hey, add a navigation from post to the next, as you can see on my blogs.

  • http://www.freakitude.com Lovedeep Wadhwa

    Exguides released a similar theme based on the Refresh Design.

    [ Demo | Download Link ]

  • http://tima13.blogspot.com Met

    nice blog. good photo.

  • http://arrif.blogspot.com Mohamed Arif

    Hi tilak ur is nice blog and useful one. I need blogads invitation for my page http://arrif.blogspot.com. If possible let me know and invite me to get that invitation for my business research intelligence blog. More types of ads network are not useful on the way.

  • http://go64now.com/ Mr.Cool

    Hey This theme looks really good Thilak ! its better than the previous one. But one suggestion – its time you make a site logo. It'll improve the look :)

    And hey, dont you use YM frequently ? I sent you a request ages ago and still no reply !