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Hi all.

I consider myself fairly competent with website design using html/css, but I am terrible at design. As Bollard says, I'm "a developer not a designer", but I'm not colour blind: not physically anyway. :rofl:

Anyway, the problem is I've designed my first theme for wordpress, which is designed to be used for a youth organisation which i work for. I've asked my friends to go over it, but... they don't see it from a dev's point of view.

So please, take a look and give me some points to improve upon. post-276090-12819866946442.png

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I see this as a good start, the content would look better with something to break up the large blocks of text, like images or information boxes, and some gradients (one for the body background, one for the nav background) couldn't hurt either.

In my opinion the navigation is a bit too far down the page, too. It could be moved above the 'Latest Updates' line, or above the Header perhaps?

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I see this as a good start, the content would look better with something to break up the large blocks of text, like images or information boxes, and some gradients (one for the body background, one for the nav background) couldn't hurt either.

In my opinion the navigation is a bit too far down the page, too. It could be moved above the 'Latest Updates' line, or above the Header perhaps?

Thanks. As it happens, i had the updates below the navigation, but i preferred it the way it is now. Probably because the update takes precedence over the navigation, because it's for quick-at-a-glance info...

As for the gradient, how about this?post-276090-12819996684914.png

Note that for the content, each blog post is likely to have its own images, which is sure to break apart the text.

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move the meta/admin/log in/out buttons to the footer, out of the way, gradiant looks good.

I would kill the little arrows on the menu, main thing is to make a proper title image that's smoothed out. Not sure about the latest headlines I'd probaly look into removing that and bringing the nav bar section up higher.

- it would also be worth putting your own squadrons crest at the top rather than the generic ATC one.

ex 201 (Macclesfield) Squadron ATC

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move the meta/admin/log in/out buttons to the footer, out of the way, gradiant looks good.

I would kill the little arrows on the menu, main thing is to make a proper title image that's smoothed out. Not sure about the latest headlines I'd probaly look into removing that and bringing the nav bar section up higher.

- it would also be worth putting your own squadrons crest at the top rather than the generic ATC one.

ex 201 (Macclesfield) Squadron ATC

I agree about the meta, its not what regular visitors need to see. If the arrows on the menu are to go, how do i separate the multi-level menus from regular links? Just a thought. Our sqn's crest has only just been released, as we've had a new one. Or something, I;m not exactly sure. The problem is I havn't got a nice scalable vector one to play with, and size i've been given is too small to work with. I'll have to get a decend sized one...

Current Instructor Staff Cdt Sgt 1220(March) Sqn ATC.

Is this more what you had in mind?post-276090-1282171948821.jpg I'm not sure what you meant by title image, could you elaborate more on that?

twitter feed? seriously??

yes, seriously. Twitter is the perfect platform, because it can be updated by SMS and can push updates to other mobiles in seconds. It's an essential feature, as these updates carry very important information to users of this website.

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I like it, I like it alot (Y)

Wow, thanks very much.

The second looks better than the third to be honest.

I thought so too, but maybe with an image up there the text and crest wouldn't look so isolated.

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I thought so too, but maybe with an image up there the text and crest wouldn't look so isolated.
The general design is pretty awesome. Nice, clean, simple and easy to read - I hate overly flashy sites. A few tweaks here and there to see what it changes never hurts.
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The general design is pretty awesome. Nice, clean, simple and easy to read - I hate overly flashy sites. A few tweaks here and there to see what it changes never hurts.

Thanks. I'm hoping to get away from the "web 2.0" looks, and away from the nineties looks which the old website has!

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I like the 2nd one: but reduce the font size & padding for the Twitter Stuff

Latest Update: Lorem Ipsum...

Not everyone has an 1080 monitor (yes netbooks!), so I'd try condensing the the header area so it fits smaller screens better.

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