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  • March 6, 2013 at 1:54 pm #24599

    rogerp
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    I have done some customisation on the outreach theme and woudl appreciate any comments?

    http://www.rogerlapin.co.uk/

    Is it useable / helpful

    I think I might need to make the phone numbers bigger at the top and add some social icons in there

    I am just starting to convert the rest of an html based site over to wordpress, so have a long few weeks as I am 302ing all the old indexed content over to the new site.

    Should be worth it in the end

    Roger

     

    March 6, 2013 at 3:40 pm #24626

    braddalton
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    Site looks good but i would break up that large block of text on your home page into smaller paragraphs or even bullet points.

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    March 7, 2013 at 4:06 am #24751

    benjo20
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    I’m not a web designer but when I see your site its really nice. The only thing I’ve noticed is the large gap in the bottom.

    March 8, 2013 at 6:21 pm #25087

    WMcKinley
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    I agree with Brad. The big block of text on the homepage is unreadable to me.

    For one thing, I can’t read white or yellow text on a dark background. It screws with the rods and cones in my eyeballs. It’s ok for a footer but not the body of a page with lots of text you want someone to actually read.

    I would make the background color of that section a light color and then use a larger font with black text and break all the text up into readable sections with some paragraphs and a bit of whitespace.

    Just my humble opinion.

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    March 8, 2013 at 7:15 pm #25109

    braddalton
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    Why not try some nice Google fonts as well so it stands out! http://www.briangardner.com/load-google-fonts/

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    March 8, 2013 at 8:09 pm #25124

    anitac
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    @rogerp it looks good. Like Brad stated, the paragraphs need to be broken down a bit. You could use the Column Classes and create two columns to fill up the space and to break it up.

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    March 9, 2013 at 3:12 am #25164

    rogerp
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    Thanks for all the comments, most people seem to be saying about the big block of text, which is currently generated by a text widget, I will see if I can format it better, but it was just a copy and paste of all the text from the old site, but its lost its formatting

    I will also look into the google fonts

    Thanks

    Roger

    March 9, 2013 at 11:44 pm #25264

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    What happens if you check the paragraphs box or paste in HTML?

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