It has been a good 6 months since the launch of Techkeyla. And well, I was very happy with the O2-20 Theme that I had for this one. But it has been here since day one. And well, the itch for a change in the theme had been troubling me for quite some time. It actually began when I saw the Underscore theme of Upstart Blogger. I loved the simplicity of the Theme, the Underscore in the Title, and the clean white background. But then, I had issues with its Post Width and its sidebar size. And then, I saw Chris Pearson’s Cutline 1.3 -3 Column Split. Instantly liked the whole simple layout, white blackground and well, the rotating header image. The theme is widget ready.But needed some changes to be done. The original theme can be downloaded here. ( Download Link ) And well, did the following changes.

Edited the Header Images. Created a few customised ones with GIMP. Front Page: Kept the theme of my previous Techkeyla intact for the Front Page header. It shows the 3 pillars of what TECHNOLOGY is today. Apple – Google -Microsoft. Moving on to the Single Post page, I included the gadgets that rule the web space today. From the iPhone to the 360, PS3, Wii, Guitar Hero et al. Now if you were to browse through a category, archive or a tag page,  the header would then show a mix and mash of images ranging from the Safari Browser to Mac OS X Leopard, to Ubuntu, Firefox, Opera Browser and well, the Android (I couldn’t find the picture of the logo) and finally the GIMP logo (through which I made all the images).

Changed the 404 page. Check it out by going to

http://techkeyla.com/<anything gibberish>.

You are in for a nice drink on the house. . Made some more changes with addition of Adsense, the MyBlogLog widget, and now I have a few more things to figure out. Firstly, the archive page as I have had a lot of articles by now (not many by the normal blogger standard) and well I am yet to figure out what’s the deal with Sitemap. Have to include the RSS (although I believe there are still not enuff people who subscribe to my site, but then the RSS icon is a mandatory thing these days). Apart from that I am pretty much ready with the version 2.0 of Techkeyla.

Tell me if you like it. Next post: Things to consider while choosing a theme and how you make it suit your needs. And there are a lot of sites which can actually help you with a lot of resources. From widgets, plugins, themes and simple code changes which can make your blog go from being a normal plain jane to a Marilyn Monroe (not Manson). Shall include the links, till then, lets drink to the new Techkeyla. CHEERS!!

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