Feedback on Cat blog...

Hello everyone,

I would love some feedback on my cat blog I just started a few weeks ago.
I'd really appreciate it.

http://purrfectlove.net/

 

As a animal person i think it is looking good. Get some more quality content and keep doing what your doing...

 

I think its a very well put together site. Looks good! I agree with Cblanke, just keep adding more fresh content and you're gonna be in great shape!

 

Bumping this since a ton of things have changed. I would love feed back on the new look of the blog.

http://purrfectlove.net/

There is now a question center, sign up option, it is more organized, and it actually looks like a professional blog instead of something a 15 year old made haha

 

My suggestion, reduce the height of the header image, it takes a lot of space on your website. I've checked your website in Google Mobile-Friendly Test and the results showed that the main page of your website has been responsive. But when I try to open directly using my phone, it looks like a blank site. I was able to view the content just after moved down/scroll down. It might be due to the header image that is too high.

 

Well, the fixed metric (px) fonts, illegible colour contrasts (white on light blue, blue on grey, light grey on white, dark grey over darkened image), and broken/incomplete attempt at responsive layout all make it an accessibility headache. I'm stuck diving for the zoom and pulling up one of my accessibiltiy user.css overrides to even TRY and make the site usable. You've got a goofy hard to read webfont further making the content difficult to access (here's a tip, don't use anything called "condensed" on flow content!)... overall it's just woefully lacking in usability and accessibility.

Of course, it's turdpress so the code under the hood is bloated nonsense; you've got 5.71k of plaintext and 22 content images, what in blazes is it wasting 65k of markup on? The answer of course is the usual disaster of turdpress nonsense ranging from endless pointless static scripting in the markup, static style in the markup, and endless horde of JS for NOTHING, little if anything resembling semantics or logical document structure, pointless HTML 5 "structural" bloat, endless pointless DIV for nothing, endless pointless classes and ID's for nothing, the stupid malfing "data-" attributes that just show developer ineptitude on the part of the script writers, redundant code bloat use of the TITLE attribute, static style in the markup passing fractional values that are invalid for the metric stated... and of course the train wrecks of developer ineptitude known as jQueery and Bootcrap. As I always say, in the case of the latter do yourself a favor and go find a stick to scrape that off with!

It is your typical laundry list of how NOT to build a website if you actually care about visitors finding it useful; It is also 100% what one can expect when poorly coded rubbish like turdpress is slapped together any-old way with the nube predating BS known as "frameworks".

Basically your choice of tools is what's biting you here.

 

Thanks for both of your feedback. I will look into the things mentioned above.

Do you feel the content is relevant, enjoyable and easy to read?

 

I did another update on my blog, it isn't complete yet but I invested on a paid theme. Give me your thoughts!

http://purrfectlove.net/

 

Nice site... Love the logo, very eye candy IMO.

However prefer the main menu to be in one line...

Get more article, more kitty picture and video

 

Paid scam is more like it, if anything things are worse. But again, there's a reason I consider off the shelf templates or even screwing around with templates before thinking semantic markup, logical document structure, etc, etc.. to be utterly and completely back-assward.

Hence why I call places like themeForest or templateMonster "Scam artist whorehouses"

 

Not a big fan of small / light fonts. Make it larger (14px or 0.9em).

The "I want to know!" button in the slider didn't take me anywhere. I guess you haven't finished working on it yet.

Would make more sense to have your images at least in two rows. Also having a real back button (as opposed to the browser's back button) while viewing the larger images would help too.

The "Choose a category" drop down stops working on some pages. For instance go to: http://purrfectlove.net/cat-facts/ hovering over "Choose a category" won't show the drop down.

You may want to add a favicon.ico Make it look like the cat's face in your logo.

Your padding is HUGE. It makes everything scale down faster and to really tiny proportions.

 

I might be a bit biased because I love cats but I like your website.
I think the name is really cool.
It`s good that the page is responsive.
Aside from the things pointed out (you should really listen to them because they know what they are saying) you should do something about your footer. I think that it should be centered and maybe find something else to place there. (a menu, a copyright?)

 

Hello Britanica!
As for me I really like the design. It's clean and responsive. And there're cats on your website so it's already better than those without.
Of course you have to work on a lot of things. The footer is not finished I guess. And there're no connection with social networks, no share buttons so far.
But keep working and you'll create the great website!