DeepMarket Review

Discussion in 'Websites' started by Phynder, May 5, 2006.

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    Just last week I upgraded the theme on my blog to a custom theme by Colleen from Mystical Twilight. Colleen did a wonderful job, but now I am tinkering with things (I know - I know - you are not supposed to mess with perfection).

    The blog is WordPress with Colleen's custom theme. The blog is the front-end to a good deal of stock market data (you can get to it through the stock ticker cloud in the upper left). I have a lot of plans for new views of the data, but wanted a good user-friendly theme first. I think we have that, but wanted to hear opinions for improvements.

    So, any feedback would be greatly appreciated. Also, any SEO input would be interesting.

    DeepMarket

    Thanks!!
     
    Phynder, May 5, 2006 IP
  2. drig

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    Site is a tad plan, but the biggest thing that caught my eye was a big jumble. It was hard for me to read the text at the left under "Popular Stocks", especially with the different font sizes.
     
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    as i said over there.

    the text box is way below everything else with a big white space above it.
    can't find the "stock cloud" that you mentioned.
     
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    Phynder Well-Known Member

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    I pushed Colleen towards plain. I needed something more functional - but different than the default WP theme. The "Popular Stocks" is a tag cloud - but instead of tags, it is a cloud of stock symbols. You are the second person to mention it in a negative manner, so I need to think about that.

    No one likes my symbol cloud?
     
    Phynder, May 6, 2006 IP
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    Phynder Well-Known Member

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    I got your comment over at the site - thanks!

    The "stock cloud" is in the left column with the title "Popular Stocks".

    I am not sure about the "text box" you describe. Is that on the front page or on one of the inner pages?
     
    Phynder, May 6, 2006 IP