DomainStick

I really like your site, and I agree about the calming feeling the pic at the top provides. I’m not sure if it is the right subject matter – only because the staged sofa and urns give it somewhat of a furniture store feeling. There are several things you could do here. One would be to fade the picture out a bit and add larger graphics in bolder colors – maybe a quote by someone saying something about how they have overcome the difficulties of diabetes. The calming effect will be there but the focus will be on the message.

Currently, the large text and sub-text are very close and you should avoid repeats like this: Diabetes Information: Diabetic Information and Products. Why not use your domain name instead: “Help With Diabetes” for the large text – this will help people remember your site. The smaller text can say something like: “Bringing You Information and Products.”

Just on a personal note, I know the image is part of an article, but the pic of the guy smoking is off-putting. Unfortunately, when I left the site, this was what I remembered.

You might try adding a carousel with numerous pics at the top. I’ve done this with my site DomainStick.com, and it has worked very nicely. The Plug-in Customized Widgets, which I bought through Theme Forest (for hardly anything) has made my theme very flexible. I found that moving images – fading, sliding, etc – makes people stay a bit longer when they arrive.

One last note, can you make the text in the Diabetes News smaller so that it’s the same size as the post text? I say this because the large font is causing spacing problems – you end up with lines with single words. This will also mean that the widget with the largest text would be reserved for the Pages section.

Hope this helps. Keep up the good work!

Robert