News Site – Feedback needed – DecorateLife.net

  • Hello all. I’m working on creating a news site (sports, politics, analysis kind of news) powered by WordPress. Eventually I want this to become a news magazine type thing with contributions from numerous writers. I’m an experienced coder, but an awful designer, so aethestics are not my strong point. Check out my website at https://www.decoratelife.net . The basic theme is Cutline, but I have heavily modified it. Please any help or criticism, would be much obliged. If you think it’s awful let me know, because I need some more feedback besides my own thoughts =p.

    Things I specifically need feedback on.
    1. What do you think about the What’s New section? Is it too hard to read? Does it need more color?
    2. I feel like I need more personality or color on the front page, any suggestions on what to add? Should I do a background color outside of the main container?
    3. What do you think of the logo and the styling on the recent articles?
    4. Does it appear correct on your browser? I’ve been having problems with IE6, I believe i’ve fixed most of the bugs but if you have any browser incompatibilities I would love to know.
    5. Any additional feedback would be awesome.

    Thanks for your help guys, you are an amazing resource.

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  • posted on your spam post :p

    the only suggestions I have is change the header from black (optional, and entirley my opinion) and line the header test up with the left of the content, and reduce the size of the rss logos.

    Thread Starter nucleon

    (@nucleon)

    Agreed, I think I will shrink the RSS logo’s a bit, but i’m having a bit of problem with the a:hover on them.

    My nav bar is like this

    <ul><li><a>Front Page</a><a><img src="rss"/></a></li>
</ul>

    So as you can see inside each LI there is text and an icon for the RSS feed. This allows me to attach a margin-right to the LI’s to space them out accordingly. In order to create the blue line when you hover over I use the following line of code.
    li a:hover { border-bottom: 3px solid #006ff4; }

    The problem is I don’t want it to create the blue line when someone hovers over the RSS img… I’ve tried li a:hover img {border-bottom: none;} but that doesn’t work =p. Anyone have any idea how to fix this one?

    I think your blog is okay…one of the things I saw is your links needs to be blue and the headers (names: i.e. Sports) should be another color. People on the web are used to this standard. Another thing is when it loads it doesn’t POP! That is, sorry, it’s kind of blah. A picture in the header would be great rather than black and some pictures on the side or at the top as well. Humans have become rather visual in nature and expect to see visual representations. I like your writing style but as it is a blog a little humor would go a long way. Otherwise I like it.

    FlSunshine

    I think the rss icons could be improved. They look a bit sloppy.

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