Just thought I would share my site and a few observations on what I’ve changed that make the biggest difference to the look of the thing.
The biggest thing that I find has the most impact on this theme is the font, it’s well worth getting your font’s in order, it makes a huge difference and the standard theme font is so ugly it’s untrue (sorry tagdiv)
Second biggest thing is sectioning off areas of the homepage to only show selected content, hiding little content gems for your visitor to find that don’t appear anywhere else, in the big grid or in the top menu 🙂 adding different backgrounds to differentiate content areas and using the carousel to split the sidebars, I hate seeing sites with the sidebar unbroken, all down one side. WordPressy springs to mind.
I’ve dumped the footer, man I hate wordpress footers
I also hate the wordpress blog roll below the VC content area, I’ve sectioned this off to only show posts from 1 category and made that a kind of stand out area for interesting articles from around the web, I’ve not decided on exactly if it will stay like this but I hate the “latest news” type content areas especially when you have each different content element displaying the latest article anyway. Separate everything and you wont need to use the unique articles setting which breaks my site anyway
Some of the less relevant categories have been omitted from appearing in the big grid to try and preserve the websites core message, I just found that having every category appear randomly as they were posted sometimes confused the thrust of the sites message which is travel on a budget, unplug, escape the rat race and that sort of a vibe. I try to alternate the posts so the big grid doesn’t get filled with one type of post but that’s not easy when you can only think of one thing to write about lol
My other pages haven’t really been thought out properly yet, I’m going to leave that until I have more content on the site, as it fills up I will split the top level pages into more categories to make it easier to navigate.
Looks like I’ve got a lot more work to do on writing articles and UX, I’d love to get some customisation of the CSS to change the look on some of the buttons and stuff but that’s something i’m not gonna mess with yet, it’s been hard enough getting to this point……….
Just need some visitors now lol
Cheers
Hello Guys,
i just got this theme (Newsmag), but i dont know technical aspect of it.. am finding really difficult to setup.
now i have installed the demo. i dont know how to remove the post contents and start posting mine. please help!
I really want my site structure to be as it is now with demo, but with my own contents…. Pls help me
Kelvin aw far? Congratulation on your newly purchased theme. I have been using this theme for more than 6 months and I must confess that it’s the best theme for blogging. Checkout my site http://www.hallanaija.net and tell me how you feel. Use the contact us page on my site or the email at the bottom of my site to reach me. I can teach you how to design your site to your taste. At no cost!!! Seun.
thanks… i will email you
SocialAlerts.com/washingtondc
SocialAlerts.com/newyork
SocialAlerts.com/lasvegas
SocialAlerts.com/miami
Im using two different layouts – one for desktop and one for mobile – so look at each link of the four sites on BOTH desktop and mobile. I’m using a mobile detection plugin to send smartphone users into a more user friendly mobile page (the responsive appearance makes the images are too large on mobile…so I chose a different layout and push users to the respective mobile page).
How did you do that?
and here is mine: http://www.derin-uzay.org/
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A specialist site for the horse breeding industry incorporating a paid membership area. http://breedingnews.com
