Author Topic: I think my site is missing something (Read 2722 times)

Anita Potter · « **on:** August 06, 2013, 22:17 »

Not sure what but I've been looking at other sites and how they look and it makes me feel like I'm missing something. I know I need more upfront content as far as text goes and the footer is lacking but I'm looking for that punch that will draw buyers in. The way it is it looks really blah.

Take a look and let me know what you think I need or what you think I could improve on. images.mddu.com

Thanks.

Anita

Leo Blanchette · « **Reply #1 on:** August 06, 2013, 22:18 »

Maybe go for pure white background?

So far so good though,

Anita Potter · « **Reply #2 on:** August 06, 2013, 22:30 »

Thanks Leo.

Though I could've sworn that the background aside from the footer was in white or is it just the footer you're talking about?

Leo Blanchette · « **Reply #3 on:** August 06, 2013, 22:43 »

The background of the whole site has that speckled look. I was wondering if that might do well removed. Its just a thought.

Anita Potter · « **Reply #4 on:** August 06, 2013, 23:16 »

I'm not seeing anything speckled. Then again my nice hd monitor died and I'm on this crappy square flat screen. I took off all of the background images overriding them with the child theme.

Wonder what I could be missing? Anyone else seeing speckles?

Leo Blanchette · « **Reply #5 on:** August 06, 2013, 23:52 »

Yep! Its this image: http://images.mddu.com/wp-content/themes/symbiostock/img/bg/bgnoise.png

Anita Potter · « **Reply #6 on:** August 07, 2013, 00:02 »

I must be missing an override somewhere. I'll search for that in the main css then override it in the child theme (as soon as I get out of the printing nightmare I've got going on).

Thanks Leo

Anita Potter · « **Reply #7 on:** August 07, 2013, 00:28 »

Okay here's a silly css question. Instead of overriding the bgnoise.png image this way:

background-image: url("");

Could it be done this way instead:

background-image: none;

Ron · « **Reply #8 on:** August 07, 2013, 04:52 »

I believe I have the most stripped down site of all. I think its ok, because its about the images. If I have an incredibly fancy site, I am afraid my images my will disappoint, LOL

I have been on the fence if I should really ramp it up visually but, a) I cant because I dont know how b) I am not a web designer and c) Its too much work.

I might throw in an image banner slide show, but not now, first I want the premium version and my search and keywords fixed.

Anita Potter · « **Reply #9 on:** August 07, 2013, 11:51 »

I took the bgnoise.png file into photoshop and just painted over it with a white brush. Since I couldn't seen the speckles because of this monitor, I can't tell if it worked or not.

So Leo if you have a chance check it again and see if that worked.

Thanks.

ShazamImages · « **Reply #10 on:** August 07, 2013, 12:12 »

Duplicate post...

ShazamImages · « **Reply #11 on:** August 07, 2013, 12:13 »

Quote from: Anita Potter on August 07, 2013, 11:51

I took the bgnoise.png file into photoshop and just painted over it with a white brush. Since I couldn't seen the speckles because of this monitor, I can't tell if it worked or not.

IMO, it would be much better if you just created a new style.css file and added the following:

body{
background-image: url('');
}

Modifying the image means that the customer has to download it on every page, which will increase the amount of data that they need to download to their browser which will slightly decrease performance. You want to make your website as lightweight and fast as possible.

Anita Potter · « **Reply #12 on:** August 07, 2013, 12:20 »

I think I found my error why that was showing up again. I had originally put one of my own images in the background and fiddled with that to try to make it look right. It wasn't working out so well so I commented out the background code not realizing that the original background image would come back.

I hope I fixed it just too hard for me to tell.

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