jrodgers

nice clean layout, but a couple of things, posts are long might want to consider using the <!– more –> tag or the excerpt to break it into smaller, more easily digestible chunks, first page should be an attention getter, here are my posts, scrolling though 15 paragraphs of content to see the next post can be frustrating.

also, a couple of layout issues, this is my opinion not standards etc. just aesthetics, your two sidebars do not line up at the top of your page, just below the header, might need to add/increase the margin on the right hand box, and below the the two strips below your right hand box, look a little off to me, mainly because the one on the right has a wider white space area between it and the page margin compared to the top box.

The design is a template I found plus a few tweaks from myself.

the idea behind this area on www.ads-software.com is to showcase your design/plugin/theme/widget/etc. not to slap up a blog with a downloaded theme and ask for feedback. So it might be better to identify what tweaks you made to the theme, let us know what you changed, ’cause to me it looks OOTB.

create a page called category-x.php, copied form your themes category page, where x is the category id of “Computer & Photography”

open the newly created category-x.php file, near the top you should see a line like
<?php
/*
Template Name: category
*/
?>

if you don’t then add it and “change” category to “category – Computer & Photography”

got to admin and create a new page called, funny enough, Computer & Photography

on the right hand column in 2.7, and lower on the left hand side of the edit page, is page page option of template, its a drop down list, one of those listed should be “category – Computer & Photography”, select and save, now you have a page appearing on your menu that will display only post from the Computer & Photography category

see here
https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Category_Templates
for more info

link is broken

it’s the side bar, you have a yellow “post-it” followed by a violet area and then a sepia block all with differing fonts, followed by a logo in teal, combined with your brown and orange theme colours on a goldenrod background i think is too many colours in one location,

you have coloured labels at the top, using these as a reference you could “colour code” the different pages with the label colours as a guide, giving you an abundance of colours, but limit the number of colours per page

you posts are somewhat long, consider using the excerpt option and/or the <!-- more --> tag for your posts

nice, but i think you have too many colours, gray, blue, purple, yellow, brown, orange, rust….

some of the random images are really nice

in your CSS you will have two selectors

#left and #right

they probably have a setting similar to

width:15%;

change this to
width:200px;

you can comment out the existing one just in case, that way you will always have the original value to refer back to
/*width:15%;*/
width:200px;

might have to play around with the size but 200 seems like it should contain the headers and search input, would not go more than 220 tho

I did the custom code that supports oddball, including the store customization to provide zencart access to the wp functions, actual design, page layout and images were done by my co-worker, this was her first website design, she put in a lot of imagery and transparent png’s, didn’t have the heart to tell her what it would look in IE6, but the IE6 version was done using gif’ in place of png’s but the main page transparency isn’t supported, looks awesome in FF and IE7 tho

almost 1M of images on the home page and 2 pages “Coming soon” on a 5 page site

very nice! but i noticed some of the images are NOT watermarked, you might want to fix that before you start seeing them everywhere

nice, very clean, one thing tho, maybe have an <hr>, an image or more white space between the posts they all just blend together and look like one big post

you’ve used a variable width theme, but try resizing it and watch what happens to your search box and sidebar headers, to alleviate this consider using fixed width sidebars and a variable centre block

minimalist, but keeping the site content in mind, minimalist is probably the way to go

Nice looking site

here’s one
https://www.oddballkustoms.com/
also
https://jalopyjournal.com/

both done in wordpress

and someone else showing off their wp site
https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/222451?replies=11