need your feedback on my site's design

hi guys,

I'm a blogger, SEO and a web designer. I maintain and create my own blog themes... can you give me feedback about the site - http://thesharath.com/


thanks
sharath
http://thesharath.com

 

Nice theme, check drop down manue for "services" and "more" ,

 

nice one. good job.

 

You don't need two rows of links on the top, makes the second one (More on this site) look like an ad... maybe put all those links on a column beside the body?

In each of your borders put some padding on the left side, it looks like the words are touching the border.

Your design and color combination is nice and easy to read. Good job creating own template

 

1. Try to use some padding and margins.
2. Change your logo according to the site name/domain
3. De-clutter it. It's too busy.

 

Good tips..

 

Ceatiph hit upon the second thing I noticed - it needs padding. Text running right up to the borders is hard to read.

The FIRST thing I noticed was the use of absurdly undersized fixed metric fonts sending me diving for the zoom. Declaring your font sizes in px is a miserable accessibility /FAIL/ since Large font/120dpi users like myself expect pages to automatically enlarge that 20%. It's called %/EM, use them...

The logo/title not matching the URL whatsoever is another good point... and frankly that orange on grey is illegible/broken looking.

Color-wise the cyan links are also below accessibility norms, the cyan on grey below the menu being illegible and the cyan on white may as well be invisible.

The RSS feed element looks like a rendering error, and in general the placement of elements make it hard to tell what goes with what.

Under the hood, first off 119 validation errors means you don't even have HTML, you have gibberish. That it renders correctly in any browser is surprising, and if it is rendering as intended it is doing so thanks to error correcting and broken behaviors... likely why I'm seeing five different layouts in five different browsers.

Mind you, much of that is the asshat markup auto-generated by turdpress and may be out of your control - especially the stuff like the full absolute URL's indicating piss poor planning of the directory layout, redundant title attributes, and use of presentational classes and excess use of DIV... much less things like the inlined CSS which all contribute to using 43k of markup to deliver 8k of content, easily three times what should be necessary.

 

Good Design but Change the color of the top bar to be read, make a dark color.

 

in the header text 'myPassion' there some white pixels that can be seen on the gray background. If you clear them that will make the design better

 

Try to make better text-size distinction between headers, regular text and navigation items. Also, put more space between sidebar and main content area.