crazytaxi

two very quick and effective changes!!

Much better. 8.5 out of 10 if you change the text string to “Search Here” and put your tags after your excerpts.

I am most interested in the Odiogo plugin, as I have readers who are visually impaired. However, I’m a bit puzzled in using it for the first time. The links included for individual posts seem to get me through about the first four lines of text or so, and then stop. Clicking on the “more” link inside the Odiogo player div takes me to a page where it looks like I have to sign up and/or subscribe to your feeds.. .or something. Can the Odiogo player be set to read the entire article? Can that entire solution be more accessible?

By the way, the color scheme is great. Just about perfect; I’m not big on black/dark backgrounds but if that is a better option for you then you’ve done it well.

The good stuff is in the background and colors. Overall this design is quite functional and easy on the eyes. Nice touch with the Santa-ized logo, though I’ll point out that the subtitle (“where we write…”) is much too small and the fine type is breaking.

The mouseover “read more” popup layers are just unecessary and annoying… They occur for the entire text block and are on-screen more than off. They hide the text beneath, are not particularly helpful, and I don’t see where they have any advantage over a well-placed and designed static link.

Search box is a little confusing on my end. Just a black block with an icon until I actually click in and get a cursor; this might not work for less-savvy users. Maybe you could set a default “Search” string and/or put a border around the text entry area to set it apart from the black block.

Rest of the sidebar looks pretty good, with the strong contrast and solid type choices.

Post titled: Far Cry 2 Review is a perrrrfect example of why I think the tags should follow the content or excerpt, not vice versa.

Pretty impressive overall. The popup “read mores” are the only dealbreaker.

IE7 on WinXP, the ENTIRE main content column is wrapped in monstrous scroll bars that run the center and bottom of page. Changed screen resolution to no avail.

So, you have successfully emulated a server environment on your local machine, installed WordPress and used it to satisfaction, but you do not understand the implications and difficulties of using your machine as a live server?

That’s actually a bit scary.

Nonetheless, I think the answer to your immediate question is that you should install worpress on your “provider’s page,” then go to your localhost admin and create an export file for all your content.
*Snarky comments deleted before posting.

Wow wow! Very nicely done. Like a previous poster, I am wondering how many people and hours went into this; it’s quite impressive in functionality.

From a layout perspective, I’ll echo another poster’s observations in that the lack of margins/whitespace between your main content and the sidebars is a little overwhelming. This is essentially a three-column layout, and the center column runs right smack up against it’s brethren; there’s a feeling of overcrowding in all that.

One thing that may help in creating some more “breathing room” on the page would be adjustments in the type sizes. The headlines are quite large and well-spaced; the body text is also large. I thought maybe there could be a large elderly/visually impaired element in the station’s demographic, but then I notice that the type size in the sidebar comments is quite tiny… so there must be a happy medium somewhere.

Another way to look for breathing room would be in the sidebars. Again, if you look at this as a classic three-column layout, both sidebars are a little dominant. The giant weather girl is super-hot and Ron Jeremy is… well, Ron Jeremy, but the main content is getting a bit pushed around. Suggestions here: play around a bit with shrinking the color fields and graphic ads to give some margin room; and try breaking away from the centered alignment in your left sidebar. Those links are taking up much more pixel-canvas than they need.

Overall, this is a 9.5 of 10. Something you can be proud of.
I’m just giving you some critiques because it’s the best stimulation (and I’m a prick).

you could try locking them in the closet and only feeding them every few days. Then reward them with IPod access whenever they complete a section of the site.

This is a great idea for a site and a great overall look and feel. It deserves to survive and prosper. But it will not get read, EVER, with that body text. Way too small and bunched up. You’ll have to address that immediately or everything else is moot.

The overall design is very nice, indeed. Love the header and navbar.

The flash player is working fine on my PC, although like the others, I don’t care for “opt-out” multimedia presentations. It also occurs to me that a significant portion of this client’s potential customers may not have the latest whiz-bang hardware setup or internet connection; I wonder if he’s considered that before depending so heavily on video for content and navigation.

Also, the navigation bar for “10 reasons to buy” is just… well, it’s not right. Each of those links leads to a one-or-three sentence passage; the whole thing could have been presented on one single “Reasons To Buy” page, prominently linked, and the whole navbar could be removed.

Now you get half of a pass on both of these issues, because if John Force is the client you’re working for Gary Bussey’s somewhat-less-sane little brother.

But it’s only half a pass, because managing the client’s expectations is part of the job. If you’re not careful the client will be demanding “under construction” gifs and Barry Manilow midi files.

The site is really nice looking, but if it were me, I’d get some more billable hours for myself by forcing the client to rethink these few issues.

I really LOVE the way you’ve employed the wp-forum theme. And adding tags to your post was a great idea, although you probably don’t need the “world” tag.

I wasn’t sure how I felt about the site until I went to the “People” category, and you surely won me over there. The genius in that series is astonishing… the fact that the photos are arranged in chronological order just accentuates the immense beauty and joy in the series… you can actually follow the events unfolding, see the intense dedication, jealousy and concentration of the subjects, and the feel the glory of the final scenes. MAGNIFICENT.

um…. why is this listed in the plugins directory when it doesn’t seem to exist?

You might consider trucking on over to WordPress.com, as opposed to www.remarpro.com.

While the entire WordPress package is open-source (meaning, yes, it’s completely free!), WordPress.com offers a free-hosting version which will allow you to start building your site immediately, using a variety of templates and functions, without worrying about domain registrations or hosting plans and all the other gobbledygook.

You can literally have a working blogsite on WordPress.com in about ten minutes, and after you’ve worked with that for a while, you’ll have a much clearer idea what WordPress can do for you and how far you might want to take it.

why are there bars of any color? I keep seeing that in a lot of theme releases these days. It adds nothing to the usability of your sidebar, and really just looks like some sort of pixellated browser issue. I think somewhere, sometime, someone released a theme with bars where they expected icons to be inserted. Then the next “designer” said, “cool. bars.” Mostly just annoying.

Lurkers… I see you looking… are you guys following the advice “if you don’t have anything nice to say, don’t say anything?”

Actually, you’re paraphrasing Thumper Rabbit’s rule from Bambi. Peace.