Hi! Please review my site!
Hi! I use Word Press for my Trading Grain site. Can you give me some advices about my site? I think when using wordpress template, I can easily control the content also the plugins button inside. I heard that this will be a good thing to do with.
DarkLight posted this at 17:58 — 11th May 2010.
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Limit banner size on your header. I think it looks messy overlapping the right-sidebar.
It might be an idea to gZip the following for performance:
http://commoditygrain.com/wp-content/themes/f2/style.css
http://commoditygrain.com/wp-content/themes/f2/print.css
http://commoditygrain.com/wp-content/plugins/sociable/sociable.css
http://commoditygrain.com/wp-content/plugins/wp-pagenavi/pagenavi-css.css
http://www.futurespress.net/popper/basic.css
http://commoditygrain.com/wp-includes/js/comment-reply.js
http://futurespress.net/popper/ad.js
I see you have a lot of inline CSS... Try moving this to your css file to decrease pageload time.
May be an idea to update from your tables to DIVs... Tables were acceptable back in the 90s.
Lemme know if you want more feedback
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issp posted this at 04:57 — 13th May 2010.
They have: 4 posts
Joined: May 2010
Hi,
I would change the navigation to be more visible and contrasting. It blends in just a bit to me (on a 23inch dell monitor).
bartonisium posted this at 01:51 — 13th June 2010.
He has: 9 posts
Joined: Jun 2010
Very nice, I like it a lot, but please do either of the following:
1: For you text in your content, please either reduce the text width or use columns. It makes it worlds easier for readers. You will see most magazines and newspapers using columns for this reason.
Actually that's really it, haha. It looks very nice aesthetically and I am not technical enough to suggest wordpress performance tips.
louis2609 posted this at 09:23 — 2nd December 2010.
They have: 13 posts
Joined: Dec 2010
Your site looks nice, but it would be perfect if you can do SEO well for it. I see the loading speed is slow, try to improve it.
cfortunes posted this at 21:20 — 4th February 2011.
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Joined: Feb 2011
This site did not load correctly for me. Lots of white space that never filled with text tor pics. This site was also very slow to load. Needs this content to be reviewed further.
viper116 posted this at 11:23 — 4th March 2011.
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Joined: Mar 2011
Just a thing I noticed about the top navigation bar... I have a widescreen monitor (1366x768 resolution) and when I view your site fullscreen it looks fine, but if I resize the browser to a size that allows me to view another window on the screen at the same time the "Grains" link on the navigation bar is moved down below the bar and appears on the left instead of the right.
I know it's not exactly a major thing but it does bring up concerns about how the site would be displayed on monitors of different resolutions.
land0125 posted this at 18:21 — 31st March 2011.
They have: 5 posts
Joined: Mar 2011
Overall a very good site, clean, professional looking and easy to navigate. And I learned a few things about grains too
here are a few suggestions you may want to consider:
- pop-up on home page (and every time you go back to it) is annoying
- 4th bullet under USDA- Data and Statistics needs reformated
- Grain market basic page only list "trading grain" while the menu also has "grains fundamentals"
- Navigation bug: when clicking on the menu bar (say "Other grain information") and leaving the cursor in place, while the page loads, the menu is now out of wack.
- World farming information: tables could be nicer. I'd suggest to separate tables so they don't run into each other (with different columns and width) You may want to have consistent table format across the site (compare with "contract specification" , or grain prices for example)
- ad at the bottom right overlaps with yellow footer bar
gatzkeecommerce posted this at 19:27 — 12th April 2011.
They have: 4 posts
Joined: Apr 2011
I like the navigation and the warm colors.
It needs some css work as some of the elements are unaligned:
- "Grains Guru" on the right. You may not have anticipated what would happen once it contained enough content to reach the footer; it now overlaps it.
- "Other grains information" nav is wrapping "world farming information" so it doesn't nest properly in its list item tag.
The content on the right doesn't seem to match the rest of the content.
Besides that, great site!
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