trained-monkey

Looks good, nice use of the theme with the choice of photos and such.

What have you change from the standard Revolution theme?

As above really, although an introduction at the top, a bit of text explaining what’s going on would be helpful I think.

What is it? I mean, what is it supposed to be? I find it very unclear what your blog is actually about.

Why do people always check when I’m fiddling. :p

Back again.

I’ve not been able to test in IE on my site properly in IE (on a Mac), but I hope it’s working!

Just to reassure anyone reading this thread thinking the plugin is a bit of a nightmare, I have it running with 2.7 and a modified version of the Aperio Prototype theme at theSwitchback and it’s working like a charm. Top plugin.

I’ve been working on this for a couple of days and have made quite a few changes since my last post to the style.

I’ve added a universal navigation in the header which points to the “main” categories.

I’ve moved the navigation away from the right column on the inside pages and instead added the “secondary” navigation to the footer on all pages (including front page).

Things have been shuffled about a bit, and hopefully work better cross browser too.

I’ve got some ideas for the “white space” below the header image, but I’m testing those out in Photoshop before troubling myself with coding them in!

The link again is theSwitchback and any feedback, first time or on the changes made, is greatly appreciated.

Mores (and others). I messed with the “browse” and “comment” section at the bottom and looking at it “full width” with the dark grey it does look cleaner to me than only half across as before, it underlines the main content and provides a clear visual break.

I’m still not entirely happy with the internal pages, they really don’t do the front page justice in my opinion, but getting them to work, WITH the navigation is proving a real challenge.

Another recent change is the addition of the sociable.es facebook connect plugin, which seems to work well so far.

Any more thoughts and feedback always welcome.

Mores, thanks for the feedback, I’m going to take on board what you’ve said (and others) and have tweak with some screenshots in photoshop and decide where to go from there…

No rest of the wicked!

More comments always welcome, everyone will see different things I’m sure.

Had some server issues, turned out it was related to a facebook connect plugin! Should all be fine now.

Mores, did you check the inside out? ??

I’ve done this on blogs previously using the “page links to” plugin (I think) and using that so that, for example, a link at https://www.yoursitehere.com/news is actually going to posts in the news category. Works well.

I get what you’re saying now, I’ll see if I can “make it work”, because I can appreciate and was concerned it’s a little unclear at first glance what kind of a site you’ve arrived at (despite the content/headlines and photos below).

I like the basics, but I feel it lacks a little “punch”, and the art isn’t quite as front and centre as it possibly could be.

Not sure on the sidebar as it looks like it’s ad heavy, as I have an adblock and there’s not much there at all.

I think it perhaps lacks a little definition and sharpness all round, but as I say, I think the basics are all there and it looks nice, just a little flakey maybe?

Maybe a previous/next link when you view the news stories would help, and I’m not sure you need a “work” link when it’s “home” or not, but there’s no need not to (if that makes any sense I’d be surprised).

Some of the links seemed to send me down a blind alley under the “experiments/others/stuff” section.