Finally we moved into a custom theme, though you won’t notice much of a difference in the structure of the theme. We applied little makeup to HBB so that it gives a refreshing look. Our goal was to clean things and give another look to HBB. We replaced several plugins with manual code, thus reducing the overall load on the database. Meanwhile, please don’t mind some minor errors you might encounter while browsing for few hours.
Featured Posts Section
We always loved to feature our best posts on the homepage for some time, so we added three sets of featured posts on the homepage and five sets on the sidebar for the maximum exposure.
Popular Posts Section
HBB’s popular posts section provides top 5 popular posts for a particular period. It is live on the sidebar.
In a month or so, we’ll move to VPS server. We are working hard to give you enhanced features and hopefully, you can expect them soon. 🙂
If you encounter any bug or theme error, kindly let us know about it. Also let us know what you think about this new theme in the comments below.
Looks Perfect and easy to navigate! awesome work 🙂
Hey,
The theme looks great, can you please tell me who designed it for you and what framework do you use for your blog? if you don't mind.
It is a custom theme made from the scratch by our team. 🙂
what happenned to the template of this site?
We revamped!
The theme looks pretty well!!! Just <3 it!! 😉
Looks pretty clean and unique than the earlier. So you ditched Top commentators and comment love plugins too?
Great to see this blog grow!
This is really nice design! Keep going 🙂
Nice Theme! I like the popular articles tab in sidebar 🙂
Thanks for the feedback guys, I made a list of corrections to be made, on my way to fix'em. Cheers. 🙂
Hello Pradeep, there are 3 sets of posts on the home page are really nice and it will be attract the people to read the article. Great work,pradeep. Keep doing 🙂
Popular posts and featured posts section looks cool Pradeep.
Nice selection of theme… liked it. 🙂
The site looks cool now, but the speed is a bit slow.. Try creating a light version too..
Also no top commenters plugin 🙂
Good News, I like the improvements.
great looks 🙂
I like the new popular entries. It seems unique and fresh (which really get my attention).
No doubt, a very good look and style.
Nice design. I wonder what theme you are basing this on?
No big change, just added some minor features. 🙂
Really nice makeover over the Freshlife. Which designer did you hired? He did a really amazing work. 🙂
Some of my personal views
1. Search box is not clearly visible i.e. it is difficult to identify
2. Too much use of Back color seems little odd
3.Sidebar is awesome
Looks pretty clean than the previous one especially in the header area. The featured post and popular post entries looks great too.
btw, The technocrati advertisement of "iPad" at the top the top looks spammy!
Abhisek, Technorati Media partnered with several networks that run campaigns from GoogleADX and other sources, which is why you will see those ads. 🙂
It looks all white now… not alright… 🙂 Just kidding, it looks pro…! Keep up the good work little master..
Congrats on the redesign! 🙂
Check out the hover color or text in Popular Entry. The present hover color is not visible with current background. My suggestion is that remove text while we mouse hover the text.
One of the sexiest look I have ever seen 😀 Good work Pradeep, and Google Custom Search is what I was expecting. Glad that you have added it! Everything is perfect except the popular posts section (as mentioned in other comments) and it would have been much better if you could style the comments 🙂
Congrats for the new HBB look, Pradeep… It looks nice. One feedback, can you not make the posts image in the right sidebar a bit bigger? It would look more awesome.. 🙂
its a nice design Pradeep.. featured posts and popular entries in sidebar looks good..
also one thing i noticed that the Subscribe to email in the header area in it you used a script to open it in a new window while rest 2 facebook and Rss show the links there i think you should use the same script with those 2 also..
Design wise it is good. But for me it seems a bit more congested. Agree with sourish on the pt. abt the image. Probably increasing the ht. could make it more visible.
Sites taking lot of time to open down completely, too slow.
Theme is very simple and attractive too. I must say nice choice, well as of now HBB is working very well and there is no bug seen by me. 😀
Looking nice, i think images behind "Popular Entries" doesn't match, please remove it.
Thanks Kaushal. The images are taken from the respective blog posts, but they are not that visible, I'll tweak it mate. 🙂
Wow, I love this new theme. It looks more stylish compared to the old one!
i m excited to see u r new design with feature post section
Excellent work Pradeep, good to know you got a custom theme. I have moved on to the VPS server of hostgator a few days back and so far it all looks good. I suggest you to move over to the VPS, it is better than the shared hosting.
the sidebar is nice but the image behind it is being covered completely
Thanks for the feedback Sourish, I thought of using a default image for all the posts and making it a bit larger. Cool. 🙂
There is a nice plugin to display popular posts check it out here http://codecanyon.net/item/popular-posts-bar-widget/115225
cool luk dude