I just won a logo design by David Airey in a ProBlogger contest and should have it may be in a week. I think that’ll nail the favicon as well and really eager for this change. Thanks for tagging me.

First, let me say your new theme rocks! The changes you’ve already made are great. Second, thanks for participating in this meme. All your proposed changes sound great too.

You make a very good point with the SEO change – all of my sidebar headings are H2, whereas in my posts I use H2 for the post title and H3 for subheadings. There’s no way my sidebar heading should be more important SEO-wise than my subtitles! This is now on my list of changes I need to make. Thanks!

You tricked me with the favicon. I thought the S was for ShanKri-la and thought it was cool! Anyway, it’s all good.

I was just lucky enough to win a logo design by David Airey at a ProBlogger contest. So, hopefully it should give me the branding I have been meaning to build so far.

Of course, it wouldn’t be possible without support from my fellow bloggers like yourself! Looking forward to see your post.

Appreciate the kind words and really glad to find out it’s just not me who thinks this theme is nice. As it gets popular, I am sure we’ll find it on a lot of blogs, so I am going to slowly make cosmetic changes that’ll give me an unique look.

I am very interested to see how the new theme improves my search traffic. I am forcing myself to get rid of some of the widgets. I am going to give BlogRush a couple more weeks after the upcoming new version. I do have a quite a good community in BlogCatalog so I have to keep that.

I am going to do away with Archives in the sidebar as it is already in the main navigation. This should make the sidebars a little bit cleaner and faster.

I guess the content loading before the sidebars definitely has a positive impact and one of the main reasons I switched.

I think your site took tremendous strides with this new theme, both in terms of SEO and in user experience. I really like the new theme.

This theme loads a lot faster, but I would at least consider moving a few of the widgets. MyBlogLog is fun, the Alexa widget is very useful, so I would keep those. The other ones are fine, just keep an eye on load times and if it slows down, figure out which one is the culprit!

I absolutely love it that you came forward with this suggestion. I will definitely get the email subscription form/link added to the current RSS subscription area.

Great point and hope to see you around more! Oh yeah, thanks for subscribing.

If you don’t mind a suggestion from a first time commentator, I’d make one small change and that would be to make your subscription options more prominent – above the fold. I appreciate you are using a plugin in your posts, but for the less RSS savvy, your email subs would probably get a better response if it was more “visible” when people first land on the site.

Just a thought. I like the blog and I’ve added you to my Bloglines, so I’ll be reading from now on