Posted 5 years ago #
Hi all,
I'm maintaining http://www.ClashBang.com and write for it with 2 other people. We don't have our own theme or anything, but I'm learning. Besides, we're trying to focus on our content. I even got to interview Woz!
Anyway, if you like what you see, I'd appreciate feedback and links/promotion :)
Chris
Posted 5 years ago #
You have a massive ad on your site that flashes colours :/ Thats a huge turn off from visiting the rest of the site.
that banner really piss me off
Posted 5 years ago #
get rid of the banner... It is annoying.
Posted 5 years ago #
I'm going to go ahead and do that.
Posted 5 years ago #
i think you use too many colors in the text
Posted 5 years ago #
let others know? the icons are a bit messed up
Posted 5 years ago #
@goodman48
How are the social bookmarking icons messed up? They seem to work fine for me, but I've only tested on Flock and IE7.
Posted 5 years ago #
Hi. I like the theme you've chosen, but I wonder about all those social bookmarking icons... I've debated about the pros and cons of those on my own site.
With so many icons, they detract from your design, and I think people tend to just scan past them, even if they use the sites you have icons for. As a Digg and delicious user, if I want to save something, I tend to just click my own browser bookmarklet, even if a blog post has social bookmarking buttons.
What about something like Alex King's "share this" icon? I'm considering using this on my own site.
Posted 5 years ago #
Alex King's "Share This" seems cool, and I like the icons. With that said, however, there's still no universal "share this" icon like there is for RSS, and even the RSS icon is a mystery to most users. I'm quite sure that many people who use social bookmarking sites already know how to submit articles, and I'm pretty sure that I won't be converting anyone over to social bookmarking (maybe they'll appeal to the general user sometime in the short future).
I think I have them there just as a sort of graphical distraction, as my site is really full of words. You'll notice that I'm trying to incorporate a thumbnail graphic in front of each post; maybe that'll ease reading all that text for a little bit.
In terms of layout refinement, I've been having a lot of trouble recently. For some reason, I can't change any of my widgets or site files without FTPing in and changing it manually. What I mean is that the admin backend can't seem to modify site files; it can only modify MySQL queries to let me make new posts. I've been documenting my troubles at this thread:
http://wordpress.org/support/topic/105353?replies=29
Thanks for your comments, and let me know if you can think of a solution!
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