HellBound Bloggers Reloaded!
Written by S.Pradeep Kumar in Editorial - Print This Post
As I told you before “Changes are unavoidable and inevitable”, remember Thesis Makeover? This New Theme’s name is Bureau News. Have to appreciate both the designer and the design. Kudos. I customized the theme to the needs of myself and HBB.
Overall the images in the theme are less than 10 KB. That’s quite encouraging since Google Search Rankings Considers Site Speed. I also removed many plugins and replaced them with codes.
Global Statistics
- Total HTTP Requests : 37
- Website Size : 29.5 KB
- Total loading time : 5.8 seconds
- Total objects : 40 (195.6 KB)
Source : Pingdom Tools
HellBound Bloggers was successfully checked as XHTML 1.0 Transitional (as of now 
). Our new theme contains valid XHTML and HTML.
Source : W3C Markup Validator
You can also check this article, 20+ Tips To Improve Your Blog’s Loading Speed.
I used Thesis 1.7 for HBB previously, but had only Personal License.
Personal License – Use of Thesis on one live website and one localized development server.
And am working on a big project right now, so thought of using Thesis on that website. But if Time and Money favors, I’ll buy the Developer’s License, which allows me to use Thesis on sites that I own.
I have more plans for a better design, hopefully very soon. Have to improvise the logo and some other sections of the blog. All I can say is keep reading and you should be pleasantly surprised shortly.
Yeah, your feedback is greatly appreciated!
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Such a great move.. i love this theme pradeep.
cheers. waiting for comluv to be activated 
- Robin
Thanks bro. Having some issues with Commentluv, will activate it soon..
Wow this is so cool and loading very fast, I love white themes as well
Thanks mate. Yup, I too considered those factors!
Is the logo a phoenix bird? Cool..
Exactly.. but somewhat different in look.. who cares!
Looks Simple and Elegant!
Oh is this Thesis, It does not really look like it. It looks too cool. I love the design
It’s Bureau News!
thanks, the previous theme took hell lot of time to load and looked lazy. this one looks fresh.
This is a simple and elegant theme for smooth ride…
Good look. But a bad news
Yup! Hard time..
Nice theme SAM
Congrats and keep it up………..
Woah! This is the blog with faster loading. This is very nice theme than before. Good job! Keep it up!
The most attractive is the comment system and top navigation bar. And your sidebar is very good. This theme looks professional
This theme has a really clean layout.I love white layout themes because of readability and attractiveness.
I like the look of your new theme. Clean and simple. Thanks for referring Pingdom Tools, I did check my site and not quite satisfactory. I might as well do some changes soon.
Congrats for the new style and them buddy! but hey do make the font a little bit big. Don't you think its smaller than optimum for a better readership..
Yeah Hami, the fonts are a bit smaller right now. But when I tried to increase them I had some issues with the navbar. Am working on it, will fix it asap.
I think you know the solution as you are already expert on these issues. But you can either change the CSS entry of Nav bar or of the content text, and designate it for you wanted style.
p.s missing your CommentLuv plugin.
Hmmm.. New theme looks good. It’s really simple and elegent. Why everyone is being simple nowadays …??
btw it really loads fast
nice new look
I really like the layout of your website, it is very easy to navigate, keep up the good work
I like simplistic themes and hence I like this one (and also the one on millionclues). By the way your homepage total size is more or less the same as mine (~200kb) as I had optimized it for speed recently. Also had done w3c validation a couple of days ago. Another point about w3c validation is that you have to also do it for single posts, pages etc. There are 100+ validation errors on single posts. This is important because majority of the search hits comes to single posts.
Your blog now loads a lot faster though it can be still improved. I think it’s something to do with your hosting service.
Yeah, minimalist themes are now getting lot and lot familiar.
And W3C validation is quite encouraging, but I have to remove Alexa Widget and Facebook “Like” widget unfortunately.
And this theme, without ads, looks great!
That facebook like widget is causing 8 validation errors for me on single post. That’s the only error I have on single posts now
The new theme is simple and cool, I like the design, you can doing a good job. I consider looking for nice and cool theme to for blogs as well, but I dont know where to fine nice cool themes.
I like the nice new clean style. Not sure how much load time is REALLY going to factor into SEO. My guess is it will be pretty much a non-issue.
Nice Choice! Cool looking theme man. Congos
Nice theme buddy
Lookin' good my man!
I notice above you talk about the commentluv plugin; even before that you need the subscribe to comments plugin ASAP please.
Also, a post (or more) on the plugins you replaced with code, and the code used for each, might be a really good idea…a couple how to posts for those wanting to code over plugins.
This theme really looks neat and will convert well.
Do something to style it up a bit. It looks a bit bland.
This new look is far more better than the thesis one!! I am loving it and it loads fast too..
Aha! I was wondering why you had taken down the CommentLuv plugin and I guess, now I know why!
Great looking yet simplistic design. Would like to see you revamping the Logo, though! Cheers…
Theme is clean and simple. Loved it. Read this blog for the first time today, enjoyed reading your content. Your theme is not allowing me to leave from here
. But anyway I have to leave, will come back soon. Keep up the good work.
you’ll get a A+ from google page speed
Saw your latest theme mate its very clean and professional, cheers
Just thought i would comment and say neat theme, did you code it yourself? Looks great.