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Need some feedback, and some general questions :)

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RoomKid

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I finally re-coded my cms, anyway.

http://beta.manmohanjit.com/

So its powered by PHP and MySQL. Anyway, I used the theme by Room4 Baseline which was originally for WP. Ported it and changed the design a little bit(very little).

Anyway, I need some feedback on the theme, is it nice? okay or just plain ugly?

Also a question, why is my server load 2.x? Is that considered high? The maximum it would go is 4.x.

Thanks :) a lot!

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Go download and install Joomla! and try again.

No need to be like that.

I like the simplicity of the template. It's very common look for personal blogs, which is a great place to start because immediately the user knows what to expect.

From what I can tell, the sidebar appears on every page, so I think you could remove either the "categories" button at the top, or the categories list from the sidebar, as they don't really need to be in both places. In fact most of the sidebar content seems to be repeated from the top buttons. You could move the search in to the header area and remove the sidebar altogether.

I'm assuming it's a personal blog, so you'll probably be the only one posting on it. In which case I would remove the "Author: Manmohanjit" feed, as well as the "Posted by Manmohanjit Singh" lines.

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@Baines

Thanks. I'll remove it in a while

@sweetsam &+nquinnathome1

I was aiming for a minimal template.

@spikey_richie

I've already worked hard on this CMS.

Anyway, thanks to everyone for the feedback.

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I run about 3-5 queries on a page, is that too much? Anyway, what is server load? Is it something to do with PHP files or the static files like images etc?

Is it really toooooooooo plain for a minimal template?

I've seen much more plainer themes on the Wordpress Gallery.

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Is it really toooooooooo plain for a minimal template?

I've seen much more plainer themes on the Wordpress Gallery.

I don't think there is such thing as too minimal, it's just the way you go about it.

The only thing I'm not really liking is the bland template-ness of the design. Maybe adding more variation in the colours and the size of the text to add a bit more "life" could work?

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I don't think there is such thing as too minimal, it's just the way you go about it.

The only thing I'm not really liking is the bland template-ness of the design. Maybe adding more variation in the colours and the size of the text to add a bit more "life" could work?

I guess. Anyway I added some text-shadow effects for the title(header). Also decreased the header height. Ajaxed the comments and a smoother navigation.

You guys are amazing, I'll try to improve it :) Thanks.

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It's showing up now. I actually really like the subtle changes you've made, definately makes it have a much nicer feel as opposed to before.

I just feel you should do something with the navigation links to make them stand out a bit more from the rest of the links

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It's showing up now. I actually really like the subtle changes you've made, definately makes it have a much nicer feel as opposed to before.

I just feel you should do something with the navigation links to make them stand out a bit more from the rest of the links

:D As suggested, I did some changes to the navigation too :p Used the box-shadow CSS3 effect :p Hope you like it

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@P1ckles

Sure, I'll definitely try to improve the typography but right now I need to get some sleep.

Anyway, I removed the sub-domain. Everything is on the main page now. Thanks again to all

http://manmohanjit.com/post/finally-back-up/

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@P1ckles

Sure, I'll definitely try to improve the typography but right now I need to get some sleep.

Anyway, I removed the sub-domain. Everything is on the main page now. Thanks again to all

http://manmohanjit.com/post/finally-back-up/

Link in your post is broken :laugh:

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Nice.

One thing that I noticed is [...] at the end of each post. I think it would be better if you also link that so it shows the entire post, same as clicking on the title.

Sure, I've got nothing to lose :)

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