New Theme: Albeo

Posted by: optic on: September 7, 2008

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Firstly I would like to give thanks to Elena from Design Disease for creating this awesome new theme. I say ‘awesome’ because I love the interface and how the sidebar sections are all formatted properly.

A few key areas I wanna point out which gives this theme that awesomeness.

• Design and Readability. While the design looks simple, i find it readable and neat. While “MistyLook” delivers the same result, I have always preferred white as my theme colour but the other themes didn’t have the design I liked even though some theme’s had the white colour.
• Bigger and neater calendar. Now my post dates are not transparent anymore. In addition, it looks neater compared to “MistyLook”.
• No more clustered links. I don’t know if you guys have noticed but I often use long titles as my post headings and as a result, it gets clustered in my sidebar. Now thanks to Albeo, that is not the case anymore and most of my links are in one line.
• Automatic link to my past and present post. This was the key feature in making me switch. I know it’s not new to many bloggers but for readers to go back to my previous post within a current post without going back to my home blog page is a big plus. This process works if your reading in my 2nd recent post as well.

The only downside I found compared to “MistyLook” was no custom banner option. It’s not a big lost as I find the banner is not necessary in my opinion.

So guys and gals, what do you think? You like it or you think I wasted my 30mins adding a new theme and writing this pointless post. =D