Bea Cabrera

I am with @johnpope. The web is fine, the photos aren’t.

If you don’t want to pay someone to take the photos for you, pay attention to light. The BEST (only) light you could try is daylight. Let the sunshine in and take your photos in the morning beside a window. If the light comes in from the side, better in order to enhance the volume. Place a cardboard wrapped in tinfoil to the other side to reflect light. You’re clearly using artificial light and that’s why most of them are yellow. Also, if you’re still having funny illumination colors, you will notice because your dishes will not be white (and should be, greish in fact). In that case correct your white balance in any photo editing software. Pay attention to the framing of the photo. Close ups are great for food, but be sure to focus your subject correctly. Also, try and not take the pictures directly from the top, it makes the dish flat. Instead, point the camera as if it was your eyes and you were about to eat.

?? hope it helps!

Well, I didn’t explain much because I was looking for a “first impression” hehe. I guess I would need to know how it feels like when you see either of them for fist time. You know, having watched the same page over and over again for weeks makes you lose a little perspective and you sometimes tend to forget the obvious like “hey, where’s the name of the page??”, and that kind of stuff.

Design issues, any stuff not working properly, wordpress stuff that you would expect and is not there… perhaps ways of enhancing them? any plugins you might know that will provide something new and exciting? Any suggestions on menu enhancement? Perhaps it looks quirky in your browser… please tell me! (and also which browser ?? ).

The first is the one I’m working on right now. The second is my personal one. Both of them are based on themes but heavily tuned.

The monkey one is suposed to be clean and direct, with item portfolios opening on the same homepage reducing navigation to a minimum. Those were specifications.

My own page has a front page from a non-wordpress theme that I have adapted as a wordpress theme template so that it actually retrieves information from the wordpress installed. The rest of it bares some resemblance but yes, as you say, the front page typically looks as a one site only because it is intended to be a one site presentation card. The rest of the website (blog and other stuff) will serve only for the curious and friends really. I know is not a clear page, I don’t want it to be because I’m not that kind of a person… but is it too much? I don’t want to fall on the opposite side either… aggg it’s difficult for oneself to create their webpage!

I’m sorry @jan what is exactly what you’re asking? I can look it up for you but I don’t tink I fully understand the question.

thanks guys!

Ok, @amandatrayce, sorry but this is not a thread to talk about that. Perhaps you should open your own topic after searching for an answer.

@stinejuellund, you still don’t say what is that you have done. I’m telling you what you should have done, so see if it matches.

1) If you want your recent posts on your homepage, you don’t need a showcase page. Go to Settings >> Reading and select “Your latest posts”.

2) If you want to be able to tune the way they appear and prefer to use a template, have on the root folder of your theme a file named: template-whatever.php and be sure it has <?php /* Template Name: whatever */ ?> written at the top and a wordpres loop of posts with whatever other code you want. Create a new page and apply the template to it. Go to Settings >> Reading and select your page as Front Page. Be sure to also create one for the blog and apply Blog to the posts page.

cheers!

Graphics are cool!

Posts are ok for an audio blog. I mean, images are very wide for their height and there’s little text but that is cool for posting an audio track. This makes it interesting!

On the other hand, I find it to be too narrow, specially the sidebar (or perhaps it’s only the sidebar gives me this effect). Also, I’m using a pretty big screen… but be aware that each time more people use big resolutions. Although… it is true that the background graphics help fill in and it doesn’t feel empty. Nice!

Clean. I’m loving the header typography!

But why is the about page the homepage? It’s not bad, it’s only not that common. In the end when you have a bunch of followers they will not want to keep reading your about message everytime they enter ??

So you have created a page and made it a static home page… ok… what template (look on the right hand side when editing the page)? Your theme has tons of templates.

I’m not installing it but I looked through it… could it be portfolio.php? templates/content-grid.php the file you need to change?

I’m sorry we can’t do any more, but you’re pretty near your goal.

I don’t know what those things are, because you don’t say. But to activate a template you have to be sure it says <?php /* Template Name: template_name */ ?> on the top and it will appear on the right hand side (a dropdown menu) for you to chose from when creating or editing a page.

Please explain a little more.

And your question is?

Sorry. I’m willing to help you but I don’t get you. Could you explain it again? Perhaps a screenshot or something?

I certainly not. @ihpalash I’m willing to help you out, but you must know what template you are using for the loop of posts/portfolio items. Perhaps “the homepage” ? Where does the code for “the homepage” come from? Which file in particular? Check that and paste the content of THAT file here. I’m sorry but I work and have no time (and I’m not willing) to install your theme, change my own wordpress installation theme to it and play with it. Please understand.

Then you must be getting your posts from somewhere else.

Any template? We need more info.

See the header section?

The line:
<h2><a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></h2>

That should be:
<h2><a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>" target="_blank"><?php the_title(); ?></a></h2>

Mmmm yes, of course.

In general, let it breathe. The page breathes but the slides seem to be overloaded. Perhaps the size of the logos… they don’t need to cover the entire white space to be recognized. Same applies for the social networks slides and the last one with the three services. In fact, take a look at how they are actually touching the top edge but there is a lot of space underneath. Try centering them vertically.

And also typography. I think it is difficult to read. For a techie effect I would go for a simple monospaced one or the never wrong Eurostile perhaps. And, most importantly, keep is consistent. Use a group of two through out the slides.

I hope it helped! ??

That’s jquery.

I mean, you can tell wordpress to load the single page in a div of your template (be sure to check about pages with multiple loops) but are going to need jquery or javascript to show and hide your content.

In my opinion the structure is clear and straighforward, the colors are professional, the contact is very accessible and the social integration is spot on.

The only two main drawbacks are the typography and design of the slides from the slideshow and the length of the text lines in general. Have you tried to design in two columns instead? People don’t read lines of text that long, it just seems too much to read even if it isn’t. And on the other hand, short paragraphs look poorer if they are only two lines long.

I hope it helps!