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  • Good job. Some feedback, suggestions now. I really like the graphical horizontal nav with the mouseover that colors the button on hover. The footer seems unfinished (just small text in a big box).

    There are some default-ish wordpressy things that I think are totally unnecessary (clutter) for a business type of site where the users care about the company/site/info and probably do not care about the “blog-looking” stuff: the “meta” section in the sidebar, I always remove and change that. People don’t know what meta means, and the various links under it seem like an odd collection to me, that I think most users ignore. Move the WP credit to your footer, and put a better-looking link or RSS graphic for your primary RSS link — higher in the sidebar if you think your users will use it, or just remove it if they won’t (or if you want them to use the Yahoo widget instead). I doubt anyone needs the Comments RSS so remove that.

    On your single-post and category archives, there is this:
    “Filed under: Uncategorized — admin @ 10:11 pm”
    Just delete that whole line, it’s useless, assuming no one cares what hour:minute it was posted — either change it to the day/date, or remove it. Where it says “admin” is useless unless you have many authors and need to credit the by-line of each article, if they are all just “admin” then just remove the clutter. “Uncategorized” is a useless category, you could make up a category name, or just remove the display of this if categories aren’t the way you want people to navigate your site. I get the impression that your top-nav (the horizontal) is plenty of nav for users to find all your content/articles/posts.

    Delete the word “Navigation” in your sidebar, because the true main navigation is the horizontal bar above that, and besides: navigation is something that should be self-indicative (yours is) and doesn’t need a headline.

    At the bottom of your posts, I see “No Comments
    No comments yet.
    RSS feed for comments on this post.
    Sorry, the comment form is closed at this time.” If you are going to have no-commenting across the site, then I suggest removing the comment area from your theme — again, it’s just bloggish clutter often not needed for this type of site, and gives the wrong impression that feedback is unwanted/closed. You can provide another method of Contact / Feedback without the comment form, such as a contact form.

    Good luck with your site

    Thread Starter pylorns

    (@pylorns)

    great feedback, I appreciate the thoughts, I’ve just got to find some of those areas to remove.

    I like the layout. The eyes follow it smoothly. The footer could be nicer to the eyes.

    The header image (green) and the background color (brown) doesn’t fit together in my opinion. But the layout is nice.

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