Jan 21 2008
Super-Duper Blog Makeover
If you thought the new theme on my blog looked good earlier today, you should see it now after it was lucky enough to have received a complete makeover from Sue Waters this afternoon.
In a stroke of genius by James Farmer at Edublogs, Sue has begun a second blog for Edublogs called The Edublogger. It’s designed to help the writers of Edublogs’ 100,000 plus blogs become more effective bloggers. I couldn’t understand why anyone involved in education wouldn’t use Edublogs before, but now, with the addition of Sue and with all sorts of recent Edublogs upgrades, I really can’t understand not using it.
I had emailed Sue a suggestion that she might want to consider giving a “makeover” to a blog like they do to homes and rooms in some reality television series. She liked the idea and my blog ended up receiving the makeover, and I think she will be posting some before-and-after screenshots to use as teaching tool.
I’m certainly open to hearing anybody else’s suggestions for improvement, too.
Sue’s a great teacher and, in case you missed it in December, I listed her Wiki as one of The Best Places To Learn Web 2.0 Basics.
8 responses so far
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I’ve appreciated the substance of your blog for quite a while, Larry. Now it’s a thing of beauty, too! It’s not only user-friendly in terms of organization, it’s also easy on the eyes! With friends like Sue, we can all look better.
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A stunning makeover Larry – great work Sue, and of course now your great resources are even better displayed. Cheers.
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Love the look, Larry! I use this theme for my classroom blog and another group blog project and it’s so easy to use and navigate for students. I love the customisable header. You can check mine out (only if you WANT to, though!) at http://mrsolson.edublogs.org – it took me a long time to settle on the design, but I’m glad I chose this one!
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Judy – glad you liked the makeover and it is a nice calming theme for Larry – and full credit goes to him for selecting this theme. My favourite part of the makeover is now seeing an image of Larry – because I now know what he looks like.
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It is a stunning transformation. I am impressed !
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Hi Larry,
Great makeover. Now I love your the look and feel of your blog, but…. the look and feel of your website!? I wonder if Sue could recommend a Larry Ferlazzo website makeover. That would be awesome!
Keep up the fantastic work!
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gregorylouie Reply:
June 4th, 2009 at 10:01 am
Oops. BTW. Rarely do I recommend a commercial product that costs $. But I’ve had great success for a very low yearly fee.
I happen to love using myteacherpages.com. They provide a great look and feel with clean navigation in a dead easy to use interface. You can check out my website as an example. Two different designs won the NC Best Teacher Website Award two of the last five years.
Check it out at
http://www.myteacherpages.com/webpages/mrglouie/index.cfm
You can get your own at:
http://teachersites.schoolworld.com/login.cfm
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