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First impression is great. Very clean theme and professional-looking.

The middle column seems to have too much information. To me, it's begging to be a Featured Post section with a large photo and enough text from the post to encourage a clickthru.

It would be cool if you could find a way to make the left sidebar alternate between Popular Posts and Recent Posts, either automatically or manually. Then you could move the middle column to share the left sidebar.

I don't want to be a party pooper but I will be honest. It looks nice but for me as a reader there is too much going on. Too much information everywhere. It is structured and organized but in a way that seems a little overwhelming to me.

Modest Money said:

Sharp looking theme, but in my opinion the homepage is a little overwhelming with so many links.  I don't know how many people will scan those long lists to find what they are looking for.  It just seems like 3 sidebars turned into a homepage.  The internal pages do look great and the overall theme is a good upgrade.  A lot of the time visitors like to be lead to where they should go next though.

I agree – I think you need to reduce it to two sidebars – make the left hand sidebar the size of the left and center. 

Sorry, I feel the home page is somewhat overwhelming, much like online newspapers. It is hard to know where to begin reading. JMHO

Tushar, its looking more news paper'ish than blogg'ish. Which is better as SE visitors would be impressed at first glance, as I was. good job!

Agree with most – looks like tons of great info, but a lot going on.  I'd say simpler is better.

Maybe it would help you (and us help you) if you told us a bit more about what you want to accomplish with your theme (i.e. increase pages per visit, show your site has a lot of info on a lot of topics, etc.).  Then maybe we could all make other suggestions on how to accomplish (if that would be helpful to you, of course). 

Tushar @ Everything Finance said:

Thanks all. Just the kind of feedback I wanted to hear. 

I see that you all feel its too busy. 

Do you guys think the internal pages are busy too ?

Currently, I'm using all the options/sections of the theme. Let me try to make it less "newspaperish". 

I tried clicking on a random link, and the page I went to had a more regular blog feel to it. So that was fine.

Also, as SB said, this might appeal to Search Engine visitors, but might alienate my returning ones.

Let me make some changes and I'll be back.

Maybe set up that style for a landing page for search engine visitors, but have another page with a more traditional layout that returning readers would bookmark instead?

I agree with what some people are saying, there's almost too much going on with the homepage. However, the theme does definitely look good.

Old fashioned and Professional i had say. Easy to navigate, Good Color Combination.

Overall, i think you have done a Great job.

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