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May 3, 2014 at 11:02 pm #103547ToniLairdMember
I used Metro Pro as the magazine style was perfect for what we do. I now understand what all the rave is about using Genesis! So easy and fast to work with. I haven't changed much of the theme: added logo image, aligned widget titles to left and reduced title sizes. that's was about it. It looked great as is.
Any feedback appreciated
http://www.funeventsasia.comMay 4, 2014 at 12:33 am #103556TomParticipantHi Toni. Glad to see you're having a good Genesis experience.
Your site looks good! Nice use of your photography and the themed characters add to the fun quotient.
Some tweaking suggestions: images / headlines / widget vs orphaned whitespace
Your images are uploaded at 1074x483 px; then displayed as featured images at 700x315 px; then displayed in the slider at 660x297 px. (Plus, your slider seems to be set to use images at 920 x 400px.)
The home slider images are mis-sized against the allowed slider area, leaving a white banner/border beneath the pictures. This is really apparent because of the gray border (which is not used anywhere else on the site). I'd ditch the gray border and resize the slider with resized images.
Simple with CSS to knock out the two values noted here.
#genesis-responsive-slider { background-color: #fff; /* border: 10px solid #eee; */ margin: 0 auto; /* padding: 10px; */ position: relative; }
This makes the slider area 700x318 px. Adjust the slider settings to 700x315 px. Run the Regenerate Thumbnails plugin after changing the slider settings. Now you can prep all of your images to one size only and only load one smaller size. Without the slider border you can use the Widget title areas for home-middle-left/right to separate the slider from the remainder of the page.
On the home page, the content in home-middle-left/right is showing text using content-limit/excerpt. I would drop this in favor of using titles (only) as they're headlines crafted to lead the reader and catch attention. in the small space that accompanies the images that is just what you have to do. Some of your titles/headlines are composed of two sentences, which breaks up the attention-getting effect.
You could add another widget with feature or promo content in the sidebar to eliminate the whitespace that fills towards the bottom of archive pages.
I'm sure you've have fun with your new site, tweaks or not!
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[ Follow me: Twitter ] [ Follow Themes: Twitter ] [ My Favourite Webhost ]May 4, 2014 at 12:56 am #103560ToniLairdMemberThank you Tom for the in depth support/review. Where do I add the css? style.css theme or style.css slider? I thought that was the slider style! LOL oops
I changed the left/right widgets to show Titles and no content. It does look much better thanks! 😉
When you wrote 2 sentences I assume you meant remove the 'full stop'?
Run the Regenerate Thumbnails plugin .. I don't think I have one!
I was just looking to add some more widgets when your reply came. 😉
Regards
Toni
May 4, 2014 at 1:12 am #103564ToniLairdMemberHi Tom
It's ok I got it! It was a simple edit in the slider style.css at the top! I made the change and added the image size and it's showing as it should. Many thanks again for your much appreciated support.
May 4, 2014 at 1:26 am #103565TomParticipantThe Regenerate Thumbnails plugin is found here: http://wordpress.org/plugins/regenerate-thumbnails/
re: 'full stop' Yes! It's usually better to use one fully crafted sentence because they better lend themselves to a call to action. "Build a Bike Charity Events. Helping Children" becomes "Support children's charities with a Build-A-Bike event!".
Sometimes two sentences works, perhaps where you're calling something or someone out for examination. (There's many tutorial and opinion articles available on this topic,)The CSS goes at the bottom of style.css. The ordering of CSS priorities may mean you have to use some
!important
tags in that CSS, making it like this:#genesis-responsive-slider { background-color: #fff; border: 0px !important; /* we changed this */ margin: 0 auto; padding: 0px !important; */ we changed this */ position: relative; }
If you end up with issues, try adding the plugin Genesis Style Trump. This will make your theme's style.css last to load and therefor most weighted or important.
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Cheers,Tom
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[ Follow me: Twitter ] [ Follow Themes: Twitter ] [ My Favourite Webhost ]May 4, 2014 at 1:34 am #103567TomParticipantThose changes you've placed in the style.css for the slider will be overwritten whenever the slider plugin is updated - you'll lose any slider style customizations. The height and width settings should be made in the theme admin: Genesis > Slider Settings > Display Settings. Any other style settings need to go at the bottom of the child theme's style.css file.
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[ Follow me: Twitter ] [ Follow Themes: Twitter ] [ My Favourite Webhost ]May 4, 2014 at 1:43 am #103568ToniLairdMemberI have to admit SEO adjustments drive me crazy. Before switching to genesis I used Yoast WordPress SEO and when adding my keyword it tells us to add it to the beginning of the post title, post content and as an image 'alt tag'
So my title reads e.g. Build a Bike Charity Events. Helping Children. 'Build a Bike' is the keyword. (added to title, beginning of post, alt image tag, meta tags description etc
Your suggested title looks and reads much better “Support children’s charities with a Build-A-Bike event!” but Yoast SEO gives me warnings!
This is where the frustrations arise! Should I simply ignore all the rules and write as you suggested and to be honest as should! This is another reason I switched to genesis; to use the built in SEO
May 4, 2014 at 9:34 pm #103642TomParticipantRepositioning a keyword/phrase in the post title shouldn't affect your SEO.
Before switching to genesis I used Yoast WordPress SEO
Your suggested title ... but Yoast SEO gives me warnings!
Yoast or no Yoast? What warnings are you actually getting?Genesis/themes designed to score well for your SEO out of the box and also offers SEO settings for you to tweak. WordPress SEO by Yoast goes perhaps a little deeper, but may be more useful only if you take the time to understand it, tweak your settings and craft your SEO setup for each post. (I understand that you probably already know this.)
My suggestion was really for readability and attraction for readers. It's generally a matter of style and preference. Again, moving a few words about in your post title should not cause you SEO frustrations.
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[ Follow me: Twitter ] [ Follow Themes: Twitter ] [ My Favourite Webhost ]May 4, 2014 at 9:40 pm #103643ToniLairdMemberThank you Tom. I've already taken your advice and started to write as I should!
Yoast has given me a good insight into SEO but I don't like adding the keywords at the beginning of everything. It doesn't look natural and as you wrote 'moving a few words about in your post title should not cause you SEO frustrations'
I've come across quite a few posts that say as you have; write for your readers!
Thanks again for your comments and taking the time to give some support.
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