I've been talking about wanting to smarten up the look of 'Reading With Jade' for quite some time now, and I've finally gone and done just that!
Whilst I love and admire the beautiful illustrated designs on other blogs, bookish and otherwise, I knew with my design change I still wanted to keep things pretty minimal around here. I like having a monochrome design, and keeping the general look of my blog pretty 'basic'... Honestly one of those reasons is largely because too much fuss is a bit rough on my eyes as I have sensitivity to certain colours and lights etc.
Being very non technical, I decided to look about for a company in which to purchase a Blogger template from... The one name that kept popping up was Pipdig - the company offers templates for both Blogger and Wordpress, and all of them are super reasonably priced. After talking to a fellow blogging friend, who also used Pipdig for a new blog design, I purchased a template and as they say... The rest is history. I opted to have my template installed for me for free, as I literally know nothing about the technical side of blogging, and within 48 hours I had my new swanky blog design.
I know the basic monochrome look isn't for everyone - but feel free to share your thoughts on the new look in the comments.
This was just a little post to acknowledge the change. There will be no new content up here until after Christmas now, so I wish you all a wonderful Christmas! I will be back on the 27th with my favourite reads of 2016 - I'm so excited to read these posts from other bloggers also!!
Love it! Simple and elegant. Merry Christmas to you and your family!
ReplyDeleteThank you, Christine! I hope your family has a lovely Christmas too!
DeleteMerry Christmas! I love minimalistic blogs. I sometimes go cross-eyed while trying to read colorful ones.
ReplyDeleteAj @ Read All The Things!
Haha! I definitely get that feeling! Merry Christmas to you also :-)
DeleteI love it! I need to look into getting a new template. I'm so cheap and have a hard time spending the money on one.
ReplyDeleteYour new site looks awesome!
Thanks, Brandie!
DeleteI was really reluctant to spend the money on a template also, but I decided to just treat myself for Christmas :-P I really wanted the update, and don't know much about HTML to trust myself to do it, and so ultimately it just made sense to purchase one.
I love it! I hope you have a wonderful Christmas.
ReplyDeleteThank you! A little late in replying, but I hope you had a lovely Christmas!
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