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I'll give it a go - just to warn you though I'm the type of reviewer that would bring Simon Cowell to tears. Appearance: Colour scheme isn't bad, but the font sizes don't obey the system metric and are stuck at an absurdly small size even on small font machines, much less for large font/120dpi users like myself. The template is easily recognized as similar to a certain COD site that I recently reviewed elsewhere, so I can safely assume it's off the shelf? It has the same oddball spacing issues in the 'info bar' below each item title, and the same issues with the grey text in the sidebars being too low a contrast to the background making it harder to read, especially in a serif font. Likewise the orange link text in the body is also hard to read and could stand to be brightened greatly. (though in that regard it's not as bad on a LCD as it is on a CRT) Code: 5 validation errors, not bad for a turdpress template especially since it's all simple stuff. Like most of what wordpress outputs though it's a bit heavy around the midsection, easily half that HTML being little more than wasted effort. For wordpress, this isn't TOO bad... As properly coded websites go, it could use a little help. Overall: One of the better wordpress based sites I've seen up for review, and with some minor tweaking could be a great one if the little accessability problems were addressed.
hey death! thanks for the review - but thank you fo rbeing honest I realised the theme was pretty odinary too - so installed a new one (see signature) hope you like it
With the new one, the fonts are still a fixed metric and useless without zooming in 20-30% or so for large font/120 dpi machines, and aren't all that great on my 24" LCD at native resolution either. The striped background with the smallish fonts also makes the text difficult to read, though I think bumping the font size 20% and switching to %/em (or even PT) so it obeys the system metric would go a long ways towards correcting that - though with the headers being over a fixed graphic you'd have to redesign/reconsider those. Also the trio of coloured buttons seem to overlap resulting in it looking like a rendering error.
Great site and good idea. I've seen many o these sites popping up lately. I would suggest forming relationships with some of the leaders of these companies, interview them, and give some more great content.
thanks hardlien Just upgraded the theme from a unique template and im sending emails to many "big players" also - content wise- Im writing minimum 2 articles per day hope everything works out well !