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My first serious attempt with WP! (14 posts)

  1. bluefuze
    Member
    Posted 3 years ago #

    Hi everyone!

    I just launched this site today, and would love to know what you all think!

    This is my first serious attempt with WP theme customization, not to mention all the other bells and whistles that went into it. I built this theme up from the ground, using XHTML + CSS, hand-coded. There are also several plugins being used, one of note in particular is the WP e-Commerce plugin which required heavy customization it it's own right.

    http://www.whimsicalelements.ca

  2. jf0
    Member
    Posted 3 years ago #

    Very nice design! The shopping cart element works very well too, good job!

  3. bluefuze
    Member
    Posted 3 years ago #

    Thank you! I think I can work on speeding up the site a bit... but the design and bells and whistles took priority a little bit :)

    Man, that shopping cart was one of the most tedious parts of the whole thing!

  4. annedorko
    Member
    Posted 3 years ago #

    Wow! Very impressive. I love the design.

    Like you said you're going to work on speeding it up on first load, which is the only major problem I see.

  5. bluefuze
    Member
    Posted 3 years ago #

    thanks for the feedback everyone.

    Update:
    I have been able to significantly improve the speed and performance of the site. In large part due to w3-total-cache, with the help of YSlow and Google PageSpeed

    Now to optimize from the marketing perspective!

  6. DayDreamer15
    Member
    Posted 3 years ago #

    nice site dude

  7. ben.blodgett
    Member
    Posted 3 years ago #

    Well done, did you do the design?

  8. bluefuze
    Member
    Posted 3 years ago #

    Thanks :)

    ...and thanks, yes I did the design, 100% from the ground up :)

  9. miss infamous
    Member
    Posted 3 years ago #

    I like it!! :) If I had a daughter I would buy items from there

  10. robertblog
    Member
    Posted 3 years ago #

    I am new to blogging and just uploaded my first blog site (www.bobspeak.com) but I saw your site and it blew me away.

    Awesome design!

  11. yerepenta019
    Member
    Posted 3 years ago #

    nice site design..

  12. blu3frost
    Member
    Posted 3 years ago #

    Respectable work, especially if the design was done from scratch. Good job.

  13. mrjysta
    Member
    Posted 3 years ago #

    very nice! - how did you get your 'blog' page to stay highlighted when viewing full posts?

  14. 8one6
    Member
    Posted 3 years ago #

    Wow, nice design.

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