New web site
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Hi, I have established a new company and about to start looking for customers. Here is my website: https://nioss.co.uk/. Would appreciate a little criticism.
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Is the site rendering properly? This is what it looks like here.
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It doesn't render correctly on widescreen monitors.
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So my first thought on going to the site is that it looks like the site is broken. There is no obvious title or information. It's clear that something is 40%, but what we don't know. We can't tell when the site is for, who the company is, or antyhing like that. So that there is a 40%... something is confusing. I might guess that the 40% image is related to the Sale blog post, but it's not clear.
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Also charge 400% more not 40% less...
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@scottalanmiller said in New web site:
Is the site rendering properly? This is what it looks like here.
Yes, it is correctly rendered on your screenshot.
The site is based on old WP Twenty Fourteen theme. I tried a dozen different themes and this one I like the most. Grey right-hand side area on widescreen monitors is just site background and originally it meant to be white. To have the same grey color content background I had manually change CSS code in 4 places more, no one plug-in helped.
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@scottalanmiller said in New web site:
So my first thought on going to the site is that it looks like the site is broken. There is no obvious title or information. It's clear that something is 40%, but what we don't know. We can't tell when the site is for, who the company is, or antyhing like that. So that there is a 40%... something is confusing. I might guess that the 40% image is related to the Sale blog post, but it's not clear.
Of course, I can make a static page but thought blog stile would be more interesting.
I do not rely on Google, will be actively seeking for customers and those who open this site most likely will have had some information beforehand.
People like discounts. They will definitely browse the whole site even if they don't need any IT services at all.
People like puzzles. I have spent some time to figure how to see your screenshot, but glad I made it.I have adjusted the post a little bit. Still not clear enough?
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@bigbear said in New web site:
Also charge 400% more not 40% less...
I am struggling to understand what you mean?
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Ok, you need to hand over that website to professional web designer, because it looks poorly. If that above screen is correct rendering, then you clearly have no clue what you're doing with it. It does not look professional, so why would anyone want to do business with you after landing on that page.
Discount block in the center looks like an ad, it feels it's not part of the site.
And the fact that you want to adjust presentation layer through plugins, and not in css, only validates my criticism above. Even centering the entire thing is one simple rule in css, hint, margin: auto; Hire a professional to do it for you.
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Here is a good theme and they have many different demos you can download all contained in the same theme.
https://themeforest.net/item/total-responsive-multipurpose-wordpress-theme/6339019?s_rank=17
Check out all the demos. You can import any of those demos and start building from there.
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@irj Have you personally used that theme? I've been thinking about buying it for a while now.
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@bnrstnr said in New web site:
@irj Have you personally used that theme? I've been thinking about buying it for a while now.
yes. I have used it on a few sites.
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This is the Wordpress 2014 theme. Sadly, it's supposed to look like this for some reason.
https://twentyfourteendemo.wordpress.com/
I would never use it.
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@marcinozga
Editing css is not the best practice, because if the theme gets updated all adjustments will be gone and will not work on another theme. I did pages from scratch using only html, php and css code without any themes, templates or pictures. But it is kind of inventing wheel. -
@irj
Its not free and goes against whole idea of open source and free. -
@john11smith said in New web site:
@marcinozga
Editing css is not the best practice, because if the theme gets updated all adjustments will be gone and will not work on another theme. I did pages from scratch using only html, php and css code without any themes, templates or pictures. But it is kind of inventing wheel.What? Since when editing css is not the best practice? You have a lot to learn about web design mate. Any decent theme will allow you to include custom css styles, or should allow you to create sub-theme. If you cannot do that, you're doing things completely wrong. I wish people stopped using Wordpress for serious websites, because they usually end up where you are.
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That template is really bad. time to rethink!
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@john11smith said in New web site:
@irj
Its not free and goes against whole idea of open source and free.Open source doesn’t mean free. And $59 is not much for a custom theme.
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@marcinozga said in New web site:
@john11smith said in New web site:
@marcinozga
Editing css is not the best practice, because if the theme gets updated all adjustments will be gone and will not work on another theme. I did pages from scratch using only html, php and css code without any themes, templates or pictures. But it is kind of inventing wheel.What? Since when editing css is not the best practice? You have a lot to learn about web design mate. Any decent theme will allow you to include custom css styles, or should allow you to create sub-theme. If you cannot do that, you're doing things completely wrong. I wish people stopped using Wordpress for serious websites, because they usually end up where you are.
Right. Any customization you do should be a sub theme. That way any updates are automatically pulled in from the main theme.
For example the Zurb Foundation “theme” for Drupal (what I’ve mostly used) is fairly minimal and just a framework. Then you build sub themes with all of your customizations.
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@marcinozga
What you see it is actually child theme.
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