New Layout

I have been spending an awful lot of time on my blog layout.

I see many good design elements and I can't help but wanting to incorporate all of them into {sugarlens}. The biggest being the two sidebars to the right layout. I find this particular layout somewhat more professional-looking and less-cluttering.

According to Blogger Buster: Three column templates with both sidebars aligned to the right are a good choice for blogs which feature a lot of different content in the sidebars.

While I don't have a lot of different content in the sidebars, I am starting to feature ads. I am not sure if I like them yet. I see many blogs with (excessive) ads and it makes me want to visit them less frequently. Since I only have a small one, I hope my readers won't feel the same way.

However, to make sure the ads don't interfere with my blog design, layout, and content, I feel having two sidebars to the right would help.

So off I went to find a tutorial.

I tried and tried and the darn thing just wouldn't work! Argh!

I went as far as transferring my blog posts to WordPress, thinking that WP offers readily available two sidebars to the right layout options, but gave it up when I realized that, overall, WP isn't as user-friendly and I have zero desire to learn CSS.

So I went back to blogger and fiddled away some more.

Then it just happened. Ta-da! So simple, so straight-forward, so silly that it took me so long.

I am still tweaking - trying to see what other enhancements or widgets that can be add to my brand new side-by-side sidebars, but the overall layout is done.

Visually, I think this new layout is very appealing. What do you think?