Thought on my website (took me a month)

The theme is so nice and it feels good. The background color and also slide shows are well too. I just think according to the topic of your website which is buying/selling houses, you don’t need to have that much text on your home page because i think most users doesn’t read them. You can keep them shorter or place them in another pages and links on your website.

I couldn’t use your website because you disabled the focus state on links

@b. Tyson Thank you for the observation. I took it from 755 words to 500 words, eliminating 255 words altogether. I’m a writer by nature. Most of my blog posts can easily exceed 1000 words. That being said, I did have a lot of redunadant wording on there. Thank you very much for the critique. Also please note that it may look longer because of the ordered list under each subsection. Take those out and it shortens the page. However, Google is a big fan of ordered list.

@andrew Nevins can you please elaborate on this “disabled the focus state on links” so I can fix the issue. I don’t really know what that is, but would really appreciate it if you could explain.

Thank you both for your observations!

Some people use the keyboard’s ‘tab’ key to skip between links and navigate the site.

Try pressing the ‘tab’ key and see if you can follow where you are on the page. You can’t because some CSS has been used to disable the visibility the link you are on when you tab to it.

The default visibility for links when people using the keyboard have accessed them is a dotted border, e.g. this CSS:

outline: 1px dotted;

@andrew That’s pretty interesting. I never knew that about the TAB button and links. I tried adding that into the custom CSS, but I don’t think it had any effect from what I saw.

My CSS knowledge is rather limited. Much of it has come through trial and error and just playing around in the code. If I knew how to fix this issue I would definitely do it. As it is, this particular theme doesn’t even have options for changing color links once they’ve been clicked on. Within the editor itself it doesn’t have a normal layout of wording for links like most themes I’ve used.

I will state I am an amateur on web design, and have learned everything I have from Google and search. I changed a lot of the CSS that I could figure out for this one to give it the feel it has right now, but there are things as you pointed out I wish I was more knowledgable on so I could fix them.

I appreciate you pointing it out, and will try to figure out a way to make it happen thank you.

I think it looks very professional. Maybe add a little bit more color. Like a little wine red color?

I tried other colors on the footer/ top border. Sounds good in retrospect, but when I added them it didn’t have a very good overall feel to it.

Thanks for your feedback ??