Business Network Design Changes

Discussion in 'Websites' started by jhmattern, Mar 11, 2007.

  1. #1
    OK. It's not 100% where I'd like it, but I'd like some feedback on BizAmmo.com before I move everything to the main domain officially. Previously, it was a 4-site network. Now it's 20 (although I haven't started adding content to most of the sites yet). It's being run on Wordpress on a modified version of the Quadruple Blue theme. The bottom of the home page will probably change once I think of something else to put there (when the content is up on all sites), and I'll be adding related posts and article ratings on article pages eventually. Category pages will also all have intros once I have a chance to do that. The forum hasn't been overhauled or revived yet, but I think everything else is up for the most part.

    Thanks for any feedback.
     
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    Wow lots of content :D

    Here are some of my suggestions:
    - For your 250 x 250 ad in your content area, try changing the background of the ad to the same color as your Recent Blog Posts for better blending
    - What I would replace your search area with a logo and move the search function to the "BIZAMMO TOOLS" table
    - If that is moved, you can shift over your top banner more to the left so it aligns with the photograph below it (The lady with the laptop)

    What I like
    - The navigation on the left is well organized and easy to navigate
    - The content :) (which is well written BTW!)
    - The Latest Business Articles section looks well organized

    The site has lots of potential! I wish you luck on it :)
     
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  3. jhmattern

    jhmattern Illustrious Member

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    Thanks for the suggestions.

    I want the blog box to stand out actually, which is why it's shaded. That's because the blog category is removed from the main category listing, and because those posts shouldn't be showing up in recent posts in the sidebar (I hope at least, if I did it right). :)

    Are you not able to see a logo at all??? A friend checked it and she said that too, but it displays for me. :( Try refreshing the cache first. If it still doesn't display, I have no idea why it would show for me and not others. :( But I'll look into it. The logo should be displaying above the search. :)
     
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    #4

    Actually.. the logo isn't appearing :( I loaded it on FF.. I just tested it out in IE and I did see a broken image above the search option.

    You might want to reupload this file:
    http://www.bizammo.com/images/logo.gif

    :)
     
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    jhmattern Illustrious Member

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    Shoot! That makes no sense at all. Grrrrrr. I'll upload it again and hope for the best. It's been working for days though, so that's so weird! :)

    EDIT: OK. This isn't making a lick of sense!!! The logo was showing up fine a few hours ago. I hadn't touched the image file or the header file since a few days ago. I deleted the logo file from my server. I opened it on my hard drive to make sure the file was ok. It is. I uploaded it again. Still, the logo image won't show up! I have no clue what on earth is going on with it. :( Anyone have any thoughts?
     
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    Maybe it's the code? Or.. your host. Try uploading the file at: imageshack.us, use that image URL and replace it with what you have so far and see if that works.
     
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  7. jhmattern

    jhmattern Illustrious Member

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    My other images in the same folder are working fine though. The code in the header looks fine too. I'm going to try renaming the file first and see if that makes a difference. Ugh. There I was thinking it was finally looking tolerable, and now the stupid logo won't show up. lol Go figure! :)

    EDIT: Ugh. Tried that, and still no luck. :( Yet other images in the same folder are showing fine. Here's the code in the header. For anyone familiar with WP, would you let me know if something looks "off" -

    <a href="<?php bloginfo('url'); ?>" title="<?php bloginfo('name'); ?> <?php _e('home page'); ?>"><img src="http://www.bizammo.com/images/bizammologo.gif"></a>
    Code (markup):
     
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    #8
    You have the wrong link to the logo image.

    You have...

    <img src="http://www.bizammo.com/images/bizammologo.gif">
    Code (markup):
    Should be...

    <img src="http://blog.bizammo.com/images/bizammologo.gif">
    Code (markup):
    That's why it's not showing up in the blog section.

    :)
     
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    jhmattern Illustrious Member

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    No, that's not where the image is located. The image there called bizammologo.gif is the old logo from the old design. The new one is red and blue, and was uploaded multiple times to the images folder on the main domain, both as logo.gif and bizammologo.gif, and won't display as live in either case. :( The weird part is that I did the new header days ago, and the logo was displaying perfectly fine until today, and the image and header hadn't been touched until I saw there was a problem, and tried the new filename. :(

    EDIT: Oh geeze louise. I figured out the issue. It was with the redirect I set on the main domain to the subdomain for the time being. It was redirecting that URL too, which is why trying to view the image alone was bouncing to the blog subdomain. :( I'll see if I can update the original link.
     
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