Adding an outer glow with minimal blurring should do the job on the text to give it that feel.

I stayed up to 6am fiddling with it and that’s the best I can make it. If you look closely at Twitter’s logo you will see that it’s not without imperfections either.

To make the white space I used Photoshop’s stroke technique and I can’t find any way to make it look smoother. It must be the nature of the beast.

As far as BlogBloke.com is concerned I’ve been experimenting with the term TECHBloke. I haven’t made up my mind yet which way to go.

As far as branding is concerned, you can call me the BLOKE Maybe that’s the brand.

I always thought it was related to InstaPundit…

The confusion continues when you go to blogbloke.com because you’re welcomed to TECHBloke….

Yes, Blog Bloke is the brand name and I already have a blog for blogbloke.com.

This blog is intended as my personal blog and I put the insta-prefix in front as a play-on the term instant publishing.

i.e. Instant Blog Bloke…

Secondly the current text on the logo is way too pixellated.

I’d put it out there to the readers and see what they think and see if they have any suggestions.

Here’s an idea. RT recently did this over at Untwisted Vortex. How about a competition from your readers to come up with a new logo for the revamped site?

Set down some ground rules about what you’d like to encompass and then let folks loose with their creativity…

Don’t get me wrong, because I really appreciate your comments but I was just wondering what exactly doesn’t look professional about the top banner? Do you have any idea how much work and expertise it takes to make a banner like that? I know because I made it, and I can assure you that it takes one hell of a lot of photoshop knowledge and time to make.

Just the animated (blogger) man in the moon was a lot of work. Then there is the unknown hooded blogger on the right, and of course there’s the Blog Bloke logo…

Or is it just not boring enough?

Just wondering

The reason why I chose this is because (like I explain in my faq) I wanted something funky. I spent the better part of my adulthood living in courtrooms and three piece suits and wasn’t looking for the stiff look.

Thanks for input.

So I’m thinking of keeping Blog Bloke as my personal blog and I’m cooking up something more “professional” befitting of my “expertise”.

My vote if for number 2.

Which in my mind means time for a change . . .

Liz

“speaking of ads, don’t mind me asking, but where does most of your revenue come from? You have scarcely an ad!”

There’s your answer

I have to admit that sometimes I salivate over some of the more slick looking sites. But then I look at the boring design of TechCrunch and how successful they are.

It makes you wonder how much design really translates into success.

I really like some sites that put sidebars into the top of the post area with summaries of posts or other information. That makes sense to me and I’ve often thought of doing something like that.

So much to consider.

“Yes, I can keep my custom domain and redirect Blogger to the new host. Whether or not I can make a new template exactly like this one is hard to say. Do you like this one or should I go for a cleaner look? “

I think you should stay with this look. Or you could try creating a new professional design but don’t go overboard with the ads. Make sure to make it look like an integral part of your content. I like this template for its simplicity and little or no ads. I hope you can keep it up like this.

And speaking of ads, don’t mind me asking, but where does most of your revenue come from? You have scarcely an ad!

Mushfiqur Rahman
www.gamersworldbd.com