Carved Signs, Movie Props

  • Hi,

    Just installed a WP for the first time for my wife’s sign business. It’s just a few days old. Avatars are giving me tourble currently, wish I could figure them out.

    The link is signblog.nicecarvings.com Please stop in and say HI!! ??

    She makes hand carved signs and movie props. We use cnc for a lot of things as well.

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  • Great job on the site and a very talented wife.

    Background image:
    Might I suggest making a large div to place your content into with the background image for THAT div (bkgrd2.jpg) with no-repeat while running the rest of the background in the main body repeating? As it stand right now, those of us with higher resolutions will be seeing this looping background that winds up just taking away from the overall visual appeal of the site.

    Logo:
    What’s the connection between a black and white cutout of a newspaper boy shouting about newspapers, a clip-art insert of a newspaper in a seemingly random position, and a boat style wood cutout for with the site name?

    There seem to be 3 different themes going on, and they can’t quite figure out what they want to be: is the theme supposed to be journalistic; is it supposed to be lazy home boat on the river; is it supposed to be kind old Western…?

    Top navigation:
    Floating all by itself in close proximity to the main logo design with no indication that it’s there and that people should use it to navigate the site. The corner of my eye wrote it off as arbitrary text, but upon closer inspection I realized that it was site navigation.

    Follow us…
    You could have achieved the same feature without putting a sidebar widget on the bleeding edge of the screen by just putting this functionality below the content of the post (using smaller icons, of course).

    I know, I know
    You didn’t ask for my criticism.

    The signs look great. …I’m sure you didn’t create your wife (/poke @marjiec).

    Thread Starter NiceCarvings

    (@nicecarvings)

    Thank you both for your compliments/criticism.

    I have almost no idea how to fix the background issue boyevul. I understand now the problem, but not enough information for me to be able to pull off the repair.

    The logo is going to be changed eventually, that was a hurried version and not permanent.

    Top navigation will hopefully improve.

    I see what you are saying about follow us, the bottom would be better. For some reason I thought the side bleed was what all teh cool kids were doing.

    I appreciate the criticism. I think you have already began to help me try and perfect that blog! Thank you. If you’re not able to come back and help further, I will try to seek help elsewhere for the background issue, the logo I will obviously recreate myself.

    Jason

    Thread Starter NiceCarvings

    (@nicecarvings)

    boyevul, I’m not finding any help on the background issue. Do you know of a tutorial page where I can learn how to fix the problems you suggested?

    Thank you so much.

    Thread Starter NiceCarvings

    (@nicecarvings)

    I think it’s better now…let me know.

    Still a punchlist here…

    -better navigation
    -More contact info in footer area, it’s gettin’ there

    Questions:
    ~~Is this site slow overall, like the main domain as well? Let me know, I’ve went from a 20meg connection to a 1meg and I can really tell the differance…this site seems a little chubby in the size dept/loading time.
    ~~What do I do with all the comments that seem like robots, etc? Do I publish them, or deny them? I don’t want to be punished in the seo dept for approving comments not related, maybe just the ones with remotely related websites?

    sub domain with WP
    https://signblog.nicecarvings.com/
    main domain
    https://nicecarvings.com/

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