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1. simplymother
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Testing site: http://carolynchappellhome.com

   Looking for feedback on everything: style, functionality, colors, fonts, borders, images, you name it.

   Thanks!

   Kate

2. esmi
   Theme Diva & Forum Moderator
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Wow! It's valid! Do you have any idea just how rare that is?

   Nice design. Good line heights. If I have one quibble about readability, it's that the light blue links are a little hard on the eyes. A higher contrast might be a bit better.

   No "Search" button? I rarely use them myself (I just hit "enter" and then get really peeved if that doesn't work) but I can see some users being a bit confused and looking around frantically for some sort of button to click on. You might want to check out the Search using a non-existent keyword like "wibble":

   Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_ELSE in /home/[...]/search.php on line 20

   Good meta titles - although you might get slightly better SEO if you reversed the order and placed the post title first on single post pages. Ditto actually having a real blog name in the H1 and then positioning off-left using CSS so that it doesn't overlay your graphical header. Right now, Google is going to see "------------" for your all-important H1 - which is a real waste of a good SEO opportunity. Plus it will look/sound awful in non-graphical browsers.

   Shall I shut up now? and should I mention that I review sites in my spare (hah!) time? So I can be hyper-critical...

   http://accessites.org/

   ;-)

3. simplymother
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Thank you sooo much Esmi! I really appreciate how much time you spent doing that for me.

   I fixed the search issue. Still no button, but I might work it in there sometime.

   I put my post date and info at the bottom of each post. Since my comment link is there anyway, I think it looks better having all that stuff in one place.

   Made the blue links darker, except on the post title, I think the font is big enough that it's okay, at least on my screen. How about yours?

   I've been meaning to figure out how the H1 thing--I knew how to make the text indent and not show, but I couldn't figure out how to make just that area of the header clickable. I was about to ask you, but I played around a little bit and figured it out!

   Now my only issues--that weird footer thing I asked about in the other post, and the comment numbers are messed up in IE, but if I fix them there, they'll look wrong in Firefox. Unless I'm missing something. (which I probably am!)

   Thanks for the feedback. Any and all is welcome!

4. simplymother
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Ohhhh, okay, so I went to your blog and read your first post and now I see what you meant by meta titles! Read up on it, and I think I've got it worked out right now. Thanks!

5. simplymother
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Well, I launched it. Is there a way to edit my first post? Here's the site: http://simplymother.com

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