“I went to the woods because I wanted to live deliberately, I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, To put to rout all that was not life and not when I had come to die Discover that I had not lived.”

- Henry David Thoreau, 1817-1862

How I Upgraded This Blog

I was surfing around the net until I came across this professional looking blogger template at http://www.eblogtemplates.com/. I simply could not resist from changing my dodgy looking old template. Then again I thought about the hassle to reinstall all the widgets and hacks which I have collected throughout the months. But heck, I thought why not just do it.

The followings are some of the cool widgets and hacks which I added to this blog:


1. Related articles hack by Hoctro. This is extremely useful to show relevant articles in the same categories.

2. Add this social book marking. Instead of posting tons of buttons all over, a simple add this button will include all the social bookmarks you will ever need.

3. Intense Debate commenting system. I was browsing through this and found that it offers much more than the traditional blogger comments. Its easy to install and looks great!

4. Translate this widget

5. Label showing title only (instead of entire posts). This is a very useful hack, as often when you have too many posts under one label, it is much easier to see if only the titles are display. Also another benefits is that, your viewer will have to click additional pages to see the post that he have selected.

6. Sitemeter

7. Top commenter widget

8. Top post widget

Some mandatory widgets which I had all along including:

1) Email me form

2) Technorati Widget

3) Who is among us

4) Cluster Map

5) Mybloglog recent visitors

It took me close to a day to rebuilt my entire blog, including reinstalling all the hacks and widgets. But overall, it has been an extremely sastifying process.

Post me some comments on what you think about the new look.

Cheers

P.S: Here is a picture of how it looked before.