Old About-Bicycles Blog Format
This is really just a technical note to let you know that I am converting the About-Bicycles Bike Blog to a new Responsive (or liquid) design format so that this blog will display much nicer on mobile devices such as smart phones, iPods, iPads and tablet computers. So feel free to visit this blog on your smart phones and tablets!
Starting today you will be seeing a new theme for this blog (and there may be some minor changes during the update process) but don’t worry all of the existing content and information on this blog will still be here as it has been for so many years.
Since there are thousands of visitors to this blog each year (a little over 13,000 at last count (and I am humbled and grateful for your responses)) I wanted to be sure to post a notification that this is still the same About-Bicycles Bike Blog.
The photo that I have included above is how this site used to look with the previous (non-responsive, fixed width) WordPress theme (iNove). The new WordPress theme that I will be using is just called Twenty Eleven. I have tested and implemented this new theme on one of my other (less popular) sites and it has most of what I need for a decent blog theme (although there are still some trade offs and other things that I would like to see).
This new WordPress Theme allows a banner photo on top and I searched for quite a while to find a good bike blog type of photo that works well in a long banner-like size and decided to just go with a background design for now.
Photo used for new WordPress theme
I actually just started with a photo of a sunset with some high grasses in the foreground since I liked the colors. Then I blurred it out so I could include text in the foreground and re-sized it to fit the banner proportions. If you do not see the new banner yet then I have not completed the conversion just yet (it will be coming soon).
This is actually just Step One in the process of converting the entire About-Bicycles.com website to a more mobile friendly format. I have already completed most of the work necessary to convert this website to a Responsive Design (via CSS) but have not yet implemented the changes. This will be happening soon but there is only so much time in the day.
OK, I’ll be backing up this blog now before the conversion. After that you should see the new format. I hope you like it ~ on your Desktops, Laptops, Smart Phones, Tablets or any other device that you may use to access this blog. Later.