rate my webdeveloper site

**rezzy** · 07:52 PM

Hello all,

I am considering doing yet another re-design of my site. I figured I would ask you great people rather I should consider it or leave it as is.

The address resnodesigns.com

**vangogh** · 03-07-2008, 08:09 PM

Your link wasn't pointing to your site, but I fixed it for you.

First thing. I'm getting an occasional error where your completed project is located. It's not every time and it's only been on the Portfolio and Contact pages. Looks minor, but I thought you'd want to know.

Speaking of the completed projects since there's only the one I think I'd change the wording to recent projects or featured projects.

I like your logo and the simplicity of the design. A color might look good for the nav links. The links would probably look better aligned on the right with the completed projects below.

You might already be planning this, but I'd add some pages. You mention web design, php scripting, hosting, but you're not really telling me much about those services. You can build a page on each service to better convince me I should contact you.

The design is simple and clean which I like, but because there's not a lot of content I have a sense of emptiness. If you don't have enough content to support the pages above then add more content to the single home page. You can also add things to the sidebar like recent posts or some other things to highlight the blog.

I'm not saying to make it complicated and add everything, but you could add more and still have the clean and simple look.

I see the blog has a different design, but I also see the note that you're working on a theme for the blog. I would make it the same design as the rest of your site. In fact if most of the content will be on the blog you might consider running the entire site off the blog. It's not too hard to set up that way and it will be easier later to make changes. it also makes it easy to reuse elements from the blog's sidebar on your other pages.

A little more space in the footer between the links and the copyright would make both more readable.

I'm usually not a big fan of backgrounds behind the entire page, but I like yours. It's subtle. It softens the page without interfering or distracting.

I don't think you need to redesign the site, but maybe it needs a little more. There is a sparse feeling to it, but I think it's more to do with their not being a lot of content at the moment.

**LanceUppercut** · 03-07-2008, 08:21 PM

One suggestion is that your completed projects image looks very similar to your own website. This could show a lack of range and dissuade some potential clients.

**rezzy** · 12:38 AM

Thanks! As always, you give me the clearest message, of what I need to do.

Quote:

A color might look good for the nav links. The links would probably look better aligned on the right with the completed projects below.

I do have a color, its a slight graying, can you not see it? On my screen the links are aligned to the right, is that not so for you?

The other things you mentioned I have started working on. You will notice, the homepage has some additional content that I will break out to separate pages.

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And I do have stuff in the side bar that highlights my blog. But it cycles with the other stuff. Should I change that and have it display two items instead of the one that is currently shown?
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Found the rogue error message you were talking about. I forgot a "{" when made some changes to my RSS reader.

**vangogh** · 03-09-2008, 12:34 AM

I could tell they were gray and not black, but I still think more color would work well.

I see the other information in the sidebar now. I guess that's what wasn't working when I looked before and was getting the error. I think you could add another item or even too without complicating the sidebar. If you add too much to the sidebar you can make it too complicated. One more item won't do that. Two more will probably work as well.

One thing I forgot to mention about the blog. Even though you're going to work on a new theme I'd at least add a more obvious link back to the main site. I'd change Home in the navigation to a link to the home page of the site instead of the blog. I think that's what most people will assume it is.

**collegephotosus** · 03-11-2008, 09:59 AM

My only criticism would be to use a constant font face.

**rezzy** · 03-11-2008, 05:07 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by vangogh

I'd change Home in the navigation to a link to the home page of the site instead of the blog. I think that's what most people will assume it is.

Where in the world do I change that setting? I cant find it anywhere.

**vangogh** · 03-11-2008, 07:38 PM

I just downloaded your theme so I could take a look. The code is in header.php. Look for the code:

Code:

<ul id="menu">
  <li <?php if(is_home()){echo 'class="current_page_item"';}?>><a href="<?php bloginfo('siteurl'); ?>" title="Home">Home</a></li>
  <?php wp_list_pages('title_li=&depth=1');?>
</ul>

and then specifically for this:

<a href="<?php bloginfo('siteurl'); ?>" title="Home">

Change

<?php bloginfo('siteurl'); ?>

to your domain and you should be set.

If you look a little below where you find code above you'll see code starting with:

<div id="logo">

The logo image is also linked to the blog's home page and you can change it the same way.

**rezzy** · 03-11-2008, 08:57 PM

i was able to finally get the skin to cooperate, please rate it. i think the page needs to be spaced a bit more.

i forgot the top links where included in a file. i was thinking they were in a setting somewhere.

**vangogh** · 03-12-2008, 05:06 PM

Good job on the theme. Matches the site well. One thing I notice right away is it's a little hard to know where one post ends and the next one starts on the home page. If you could add some "white" in between each post or even some space it would help make the home page more readable.

**rezzy** · 03-12-2008, 11:12 PM

yea... haha i noticed that too. i gotta work on adding the finishing touches on it.