angsuman

Personally I haven’t. I will check with my staff and let you know. She is writing up a review of several themes and her views on them.

I use a simple (incrementing) counter which I check to see if I should be inserting AdSense. You can see it in action on http://blog.taragana.com/

IMHO trying a plugin for this kind of things makes it inflexible in the long run. If you know PHP just use a <i>if</i> statement.

I have severals blog using it “successfully” (IMHO).
MacManx kindly pointed to Simple Thoughts Blog – blog.taragana.com above. It uses a custom theme.

> and has a great or cool layout
The layout is dependent on the theme used.

Few of my blogs with their themes are:
http://pet.taragana.net/ Using (plain-jane) default Kubrick layout
http://hotjobs.taragana.com/ Using Gila Theme (modified)
http://stemcell.taragana.net/ Using Greyed Theme (slightly Modified)

I know several A-List (whatever that means) bloggers who switched to WordPress.

You should start with default theme (characterized by big blue blob in the middle 😉 ), then experiment with others.

Not all themes are same, nor are syntactically (XHTML spec wise) correct. You should experiment a lot before you adopt one or stick with Kubrick or its variants like LiewCF’s version with three column.

Personally I spent quite sometime with different available themes before I designed the Simple Thoughts theme.

One of my intern recently spent couple of days evaluating several themes. At the end I decided to rollout a new version of my theme which will be applied to all of the above blogs. The point is if you want to have it your way, you probably have to design your own theme in the end.

Coolness is a personal factor. What is cool may not be usable in your scheme of things. For example I found Crimson Milk to be a cool theme. However I couldn’t use it for several reasons.

Cool theme!

I wonder if Google is going to cry over this as Googlebot is Ajax illiterate.

@explosive & davebgimp

Check if your referer.txt has empty lines. Remove them. That, as mentioned in the doc, may cause bouncing. However beyond that it is not really possible for it to affect normal traffic, unless you are coming from a banned website (banned in your referrer list).

Try deleting your cookies and check again as Bondoon sugested. That might fix it.

I can take a look at your site. Let me know when you have activated the plugin.

Drop down is still useful when coupled with a search.
No Sir, I would never settle for linking with my posts 499 & 2352 😉

@josalmon
I am trying very hard not to say – told ya so 😉