Hi Folks Thanks a lot for reading this and I do appreciate your help and support. Please could you check out my new site - www.emailmojo.pro and let me know if you have any feedback for me? also specially interested re the speed of the site. All comments and feed back received will be gratefully appreciated..... Thanks
Your app looks amazing. Specially the email template and creation part. I would like to advice you to add more custom fields in terms of variables which can be populated into email. I might be wrong may be you have it there already but i have not seen it. but having custom variables are always awesome. cheers..!!!
Your landing page alone REEKS of "HTML, what's that?" -- the gibberish non-semantic markup leads to accessibility failings across the entire board. This is further compounded by design and development failures like endless pointless static style in the markup, scripttardery in the markup... it's a laundry list of how not to build a website. The complete lack of indication there's even anything else on the page, stuffing crap into the page most people will NEVER see from not bothering to scroll, endless pointless "gee ain't it neat' scripttard bs... I'd pitch that entire broken inaccessible mess in the trash an start over -- without turdpress, dozens of slow loading goofy webfonts, dumbass HTML 5 code-bloat... I mean if you don't know what's wrong with code like this: <div class='one_fourth last'><div data-effect="fadeInUp" id="service-box-1328541592" class="service-box rnr-animate animated"><div><h3></h3><div class="img-container"><img src="" alt=""></div></div><div class="service-description portfolio-lazyLoad"><p><h1><span style="color:#5a5652;"><strong><a href="http://www.emailmojo.pro/features">see full list of 45+ features</a> </strong></span></h1></p></div></div></div><div class='clear'></div></div></div></div><div class="rnr-scroll-up" data-section="tour-3" ></div></div><div id="why" class="page5970 section why"> <a class="rnr-offset" id="why"></a><div class="container"><div data-effect="fadeInUp" class="sixteen columns rnr-animate animate"><h1><strong><div class="clearfix aligncenter"><div class="fancy-header1"><h2>10 things you should know about emails marketing</h2></div></div></strong></h1><div class="space" style="height: 30px;"></div><div class="full-width" style="color: #333333;background: #f6f6f6;padding: 60px;margin-top: 0px !important;margin-bottom: 0px !important;"><div class='one_fourth'><style type="text/css">#service-box-46727772:hover { background: #72bdef; } #service-box-46727772 .service-icon { box-shadow: 0px 0px 0px 3px #72bdef; background: #72bdef; } #service-box-46727772:hover .service-icon { border: 4px solid #72bdef; color: #72bdef; box-shadow: 0px 0px 0px 3px #ffffff; background: #ffffff; }</style><div data-effect="fadeInUp" id="service-box-46727772" class="service-box rnr-animate animated"><div><h3></h3><div class="img-container"><img src="" alt=""></div></div><div class="service-description portfolio-lazyLoad"><p><h2>44% of email recipients made at least one purchase last year based on a promotional email.</h2><h3><strong>SOURCE:</strong>Convince and convert</h3></p></div></div></div> Code (markup): It's time to back the *** away from the keyboard and not come back until you learn how to use HTML properly. Sorry if that seems harsh, but that's called "the cold light of reality". There's only one thing in that entire section that would qualify as a heading... STYLE as a tag has no damned business in BODY (and honestly doesn't belong there as an attribute or in the markup whatsoever), endless pointless DIV for NOTHING, endless pointless attributes and classes for NOTHING, paragraphs wrapping header tags, paragraphs wrapping non-paragraph content... Whoever's writing your markup? Doesn't know enough to be building websites in the first place... and that's WITHOUT my discussing all the steaming piles of /FAIL/ it has from an accessibility standpoint with the fixed metric fonts, layout concepts that will fight you when trying to make it responsive, broken layout... Again, sorry if that seems harsh, but reality often is.
thanks for the feedback - it is actually a WP them called Jarvis http://demo.rocknrolladesigns.com/html/jarvis/index.html So that i understand - you feel the whole theme is crap or our execution of it?
Being a turdpress theme it's automatically crap -- it's part of why WP is cute for personal blogs, and the road to failure for any serious business website. The number of good WP sites I've seen can be counted on one hand, and usually they involve gutting and modifying the underlying code so utterly and completely that it neuters any upgrade path (say hello to security hell) and reaches the point where it really isn't Wordpress anymore. Grabbing some crappy off the shelf template and shoe-horning your content into it is like stuffing a fat woman's size 14 hoof into a size 7 shoe -- even if you make it fit it's not going to walk very far. The very NOTION of starting out with what the site is going to look like instead of what's going on the page, and going for static design concepts like fixed equal width equal height boxes is such utter and complete rubbish, that the only reason it even exists is the ignorance of the average aspiring site owner and the sleazy snake-oil doctor hoodoo voodoo that is the bread and butter of "designers" -- aka scam artists who fill sites with templateMonster or themeForest with nube predating BS. You've basically been led down the garden path to failure by scam artists and the sleazy practices that make up most of the web right now. Turdpress, bootcrap, jqueery -- it's all a bunch of nonsense that gets in the way of what's really important, delivering content to users. If you are NOT a developer and don't know HTML/CSS, it's very hard to explain to you in more detail, but what you have is the typical train wreck of what happens when off the shelf solutions get slapped together any old way. Some of the bad code is obviously turdpress itself, but a lot of it seems to be related to that theme which is just nonsense. That sliding in hidden menu for example is just a waste of code... the offset body background that looks like a rendering error... the fixed metric fonts that don't auto-scale to user preferences -- design ALONE it's a disaster. But under the hood in the code is where it's truly terrifying. It's useless with screen readers, useless with keyboard or puffer navigation (not everyone uses a mouse!), it's a disaster on mobile (and with a lot of sites now seeing more phone/tablet traffic than they do desktops, that's BAD)... Just the first few lines, like this gem: <!--[if lt IE 7 ]><html class="ie ie6" lang="en"> <![endif]--> <!--[if IE 7 ]><html class="ie ie7" lang="en"> <![endif]--> <!--[if IE 8 ]><html class="ie ie8" lang="en"> <![endif]--> <!--[if (gte IE 9)|!(IE)]><!--><html lang="en-US"> <!--<![endif]--> Code (markup): That's a IE detection script invented by a fellow named Paul Irish, and it's a complete waste of code used to sweep developer ineptitude under the rug. There's no reason for that to be used on ANY site other than the developer having no clue what they are doing. Whereever you see a section that starts with this: <style type='text/css'> Code (markup): It means whoever wrote the page doesn't know how to use CSS properly, more so if it's after the <body> tag since in REAL documents it's not even valid there; meaning they didn't know enough about HTML to even be writing a website. Code like this: </head><body class="home page page-id-133 page-template page-template-frontpage-php onepage" data-spy="scroll" data-target=".navigation" data-offset="82"><div id="load"></div><div class="page-wrap "> <section id="front-page-layout-builder" class="parallax"><div class="parallax-overlay"><div class="container clearfix"><div class="parallax-content"><div class='one_half'><div align="right"><p><img alt="FREE HTML EMAIL templates" class="alignright size-full wp-image-5271 portfolio-lazyLoad" src="http://www.emailmojo.pro/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/free-email-marketing.png" data-original="http://www.emailmojo.pro/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/free-email-marketing.png" style="width: 340px; height: 600px;"/><noscript><img alt="FREE HTML EMAIL templates" class="alignright size-full wp-image-5271 portfolio-lazyLoad" src="http://www.emailmojo.pro/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/free-email-marketing.png" style="width: 340px; height: 600px;"/></noscript></p></div></div><div class='one_half last'><div align="left"><p><H1><span style="color:#5a5652;"> “Super charge your marketing!” <strong>Send Smart, Beautiful emails</strong> </span></h1></p><p> <a class="button white yellow-text" style="font-weight: 600; font-style: inherit; color: #ffffff;" href="http://app.emailmojo.pro/signin">Sign Up Free!</a></p><p><span style="color:#5a5652;">(Your first 100 contacts are <strong>free for life</strong>)</span></p><p><span style="color:#5a5652;">and we don’t need your credit card details</span></p></div></div><div class='clear'></div></div></div></div> </section> Code (markup): Screams "I don't know how to make a website" -- not sure if that came with the template or with turdpress, but really that's a disaster of again, developer ineptitude. Paragraph around images, endless pointless DIV for nothing, endless pointless classes for nothing, clearfix like it's still 2001, scripttard ineptitude BS "data-" attributes... and of course the HTML 5 code bloat with the pointless redunancies it introduces. (NOT a fan). It's all telltales that again, whoever made this stuff has no business writing HTML, CSS or Scripting. Just to show you what I mean, if I were writing the same page, the code would likely be more like this: </head><body> <div id="top"> <h1> Email<span>mojo</span>.pro </h1> <div id="homeCallToAction"> <h2> "Super charge your marketing!" <strong>Send Smart, Beautiful emails</strong> </h2> <a class="signUp" href="http://app.emailmojo.pro/signin">Sign Up Free!</a><br /> <p> <em>(Your first 100 contacts are <strong>free for life</strong>)</em> and we don't need your credit card details </p> <!-- #homeCallToAction --></div> Code (markup): Which is basically a THIRD the code. Overall the pages on the site run anywhere from five to ten times as much code as should have been used to build something so simple; but instead it's "how many elements can we shove in there" and "how many classes can we shove in there" and "how many ID's can we shove in there" -- much less "Semantic markup, what's that?" Again, why I'd pitch that entire disaster in the trash and start over with your content or reasonable facsimile of future content arranged in a flat text editor as if HTML never existed, which is then marked up (add HTML) semantically (saying what things are, NOT what they look like) and then bent to the designers will with CSS for the various layoutS - yes, PLURAL! Then and only then do you hang graphics on the page and enhance it with scripting if need be. ... at least if you are serious about this as a real website.
Just to give you another example of why it's "developer ineptitude", this is VERY typcial of the halfwit nonsense turdpress LOVES to shove down your throat: <nav class=" navigation colored sticky-nav"><div class="container clearfix"><div class="four columns"><div class="logo large"> <a href="#" class="back-to-top"><img src="http://www.emailmojo.pro/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/logo2.png" alt="emailmojo.pro"></a></div><div class="wpml-mobile"></div></div><div class="twelve columns"><ul id="nav" class="main-menu large nav sf-menu sf-js-enabled"><li id="menu-item-4202" class="menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page"><a href="#front-page-layout-builder"><span>Home</span></a></li> Code (markup): Why do I call that "halfwit nonsense"? Given what's being done on that page, it's VERY unlikely that section of code needs to be much more than: <ul id="mainMenu"> <li class="backToTop"><a href="#top">Back to Top</a></li> <li><a href="#front-page-layout-builder">Home</a></li> Code (markup): THAT's what utter and complete BS the code on that site is. In other words, a SIXTH the code.
Yeah, bottom line, change the template. The loading time on me is over 5 seconds And you just copied the "mojo" from http://www.watchmojo.com/ ? Don't do that Oh and btw - use Yoast SEO after finding a good template and set some proper titles and descriptions for your website. Cheers
coding aside, I just cant stand the guy wearing his undies on the outside of his clothes. Its not just one thing wrong with it, I cant stand the whole thing. It looks like something from fiverr and in all honesty, whoever drew that has some issues. Purple is known to be the colour that represents sexual frustration. Different colours will convey a different message. Blue, for example, is known to convey the message of "trust" -> doesnt have to be blue, there are other colours that you can look into to build your theme around and hopefully it will be more pleasant to the end user. with templates, I personally hate the 1 page websites that have everything on the one page. I understand that this seems to be popular with all the new kids, but its a pet hate of mine.
Throwing more code in the form of scam artist BS at it is NOT the answer. Every time I see someone say something like that I feel like McCoy when rescuing Checkov -- "My God man, drilling holes in his head is not the answer! The artery must be repaired! Now, put away your butcher's knives and let me save this patient before it's too late!" Which again using some off the shelf template crap isn't exactly the answer either -- the very notion that you can "find a template" and shoe-horn your content into it is broken back-assward thinking... It is nothing more than the province of scam artists who dupe people into THINKING they can have a website.
Relax Mr webdesigner . I was trying to help him. You are wrong, everbody have the right to have a website. And those advices worked like a charm for me. There are a lot of great templates out there for free and with some basic html / php knowledge you can optimize anything. My website is mylovequotes.net if you are interested . And this is not the proper place / topic to display your frustrations. Best regards
Unfortunately IMHO your attempt to help wasn't helping, but YMMV. That may be true, but sadly it ends up being a bit like when Ron White was arrested for being drunk in public. "I had the right to remain silent... but I didn't have the ability." -- of course he wanted to be drunk in a bar, they THREW him into "public". It is far too easy to take sleazy shortcuts that will bite you in the ass or leave you as also-ran status. That's fine for cutesy little personal blogs or one-off marketing scam BS, but not if you want to have a site for a REAL BUSINESS -- well, unless your web presence is an afterthought like for many Brick-and-Mortars; though it's often quite sad seeing small businesses being preyed upon so boldly and openly. NEVER seen an off the shelf template that was worth a flying purple fish. In my experience it's all scam artist bull and sleazeball shortcuts that leads to slow loading, broken inaccessible websites that are DOOMED to failure and to be utter and complete CRAP. IS it supposed to say " click here for full resolution" EVERYWHERE looking like a rendering error? You are aware it's a broken inaccessible train wreck with the fixed metric (px) fonts and lack of elastic design, right? The broken heading orders leading to gibberish keyboard navigation, utter and complete lack of graceful degradation, and that it's pissing out 47k of markup to deliver 4k of plaintext and a half dozen content images -- easily four to five times the code necessary? Endless pointless DIV for nothing, endless pointless classes for nothing, static scripting in the markup, clearfix like it's still 2001 before people bothered reading the specifications, attributes like TARGET that have no business on any website after 1997 shoving new windows down users throats whether they want it or not, pointless redundant title attributes, static style in the markup, telltales like single quotes indicating whoever wrote the PHP has no business doing that either... That buggy broken hard to use page (that has me diving for the zoom when I shouldn't have to) is EXACTLY the type of TRAIN WRECK I'm talking about -- I hate to break it to you, but to me it looks like you've been taken for a ride. That broken, slow loading inaccessible mess would be best off being thrown in the trash and started over from scratch. Hence the 2 megabytes in 40 files doing the job of maybe a megabyte (your content is images, so the limit is higher) in half the filecount... That it loads in 8.9 seconds here is kind-of surprising as 1) it feels like it takes way longer than that, and 2) with 40 files worst case scenario could be over 30 seconds. Oh wait, it does load different in FF... wow, have you seen what Opera, Chrome and IE does to your page?!? Looks like that ridiculous Half a megabyte of JS for nothing is really ****ing with you: http://www.cutcodedown.com/for_others/KingManu/broken.jpg That's ENTIRELY what using some crappy off the shelf template in a steaming pile of manure like turdpress nets you. How such utter and complete rubbish has become popular is beyond my ability to grasp, but I guess it's like how Justin Bieber and Kanye West are popular; the web equivalent of tone-deafness! Then what is the point of a forums where you are trying to help someone avoid the pitfalls, scams and outright ignorant BS? Joe forbid you point out what's wrong with things. You know, the old adage: If you can't say anything nice, you must be at the Ice Capades. - Yakko Warner
That's your definition of calm down? relax there text lover, you got errors because i have shield protection for all my images. My website loads under 1 second Anyway, you are not worth the trouble even reading that whole rant. I have more important things in life than some strings of text. We are not all web designers like you ( Thank God for that ) . So please keep it on topic, and any personal problem you might have with me and my preferences search my lawyer. My advises weren't meant for you and i am not having any intention to try to convince you of anything . In fact any conversation with you I would not ever have so .. Now, stop quoting me and try to correct someone else. Like i said, anybody have the right to have a website the way they want it, you don't have the right to judge nothing. # done with the off topic