A new design theme for the blog

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As regular visitors already noticed, Onahole Review switched to a new blog design ๐Ÿ™‚

Onahole Review has been using the same theme for years, as far as end 2012 when it left the wordpress.com platform and became self-hosted.

Using the same framework for 5 years meant I was able to adapt it to my needs, customizing itโ€™s appearance, and gradually tweaking more and more deeply in itโ€™s source code. Feel free to browse the Internet Archive Wayback Machine to see how it evolved over the time ๐Ÿ˜‰

But eventually, mobile devices became a challenge for web design UX, and some functions canโ€™t be properly used (hover-menus, width fitting, โ€ฆ) and overall my tweaks were quite a hassle to port when the theme was updated.

Nevertheless, 5 years is an eternity in the web history. Many thanks to Elmastudio for having created the Yoko theme !

Going forward, I tested out a few themes with similar layout (header with menu, right sidebar in 1:3 size, footer) and who particularly well adapted to mobile devices. Eventually, I came up with Type by Design Lab, and beta-tested it with AnonymousD.

I appreciate this theme for itโ€™s clean base, itโ€™s โ€œresponsivityโ€, itโ€™s hybrid approach for the menu (hover expanding header menu for desktop, โ€œburgerโ€ type menu for mobile), itโ€™s smart placement of the search function (next to menu on desktop, top right of screen on mobile), a well delimited footer area, and the easy ability to use custom CSS (of which I still have 20 lines to streamline things like the popular posts widget, the Overview page, the shop links, adding a shadow to the site title..).

Over time we will be sharpening some details, smoothing out a few pages, using a new banner,โ€ฆย  weโ€™ll keep customizing the menus and widgets to keep browsing intuitive, for newcomers and regular visitors alike ๐Ÿ™‚

Enjoy !

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