Feedback on latest project

[danharding]

Hey all,

We are almost complete with this project (only minor changes), but I wanted to get some feedback for future projects.

http://www.synthesisgroup.com.au

We used a modified version of the StudioPress Centric-Pro theme, but may just start from scratch next time I think.

We are fairly new to any serious engagement with Genesis, but enjoying it so far.

Cheers,

@danharding

http://www.synthesisgroup.com.au

[paulsibley]

Hey Dan,

Nice looking site; love the photos in the slider - good choices, and nice images.

Couple of points for you.

1. Your first link in the post above leads to the Studiopress 404 page - don't know if it's a forum problem, or something you inadvertently included.
2. I'm finding the font you've used for content quite difficult to read when it's on the white backgrounds. It's looking as though the uprights are too thin.

Hope that helps.

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http://www.paulsibley.net/

[danharding]

Thanks Paul.

Font was a tough one...I tend to agree

The link in the forum post was caused by not putting in http:// I think 🙂

[G.Ashwinkumar]

1) The slider is just awesome! But i have one point just try changing the font colour on the pictures i'm not able to read the white text easily so maybe try changing it to black or some other colour.
2) The font is not easy to read with the white background as paulsibley mentioned.
3) Maybe you could try putting the Menu on the top instead of putting it below the slider, even though it may not look as awesome as now but it adds to ease of navigation.
4) Your site load speed was 5.4 seconds when i tested with pingdom. This is a average speed please try improving your speed, maybe try to get it around 2-3 seconds.
5) In this page http://synthesisgroup.com.au/the-wire/#start try redesigning the From the Blog section, theres a lot of grey space than required.
6) try adding some numbering or something like that to the footer as currently it is not easy on the eyes!

Important: Your sites load speeds under load is really a matter of high importance. I run a load speed test( I.e how your site performs under load and the results are really worrying. It reaches around 15 seconds when there are 50 users.
I think that the main reason for this is unoptimized images. Try lossely compressing your images and also ry using smush.it This is a serious thing if you want the site to perform well.
You can view the results here http://loadimpact.com/load-test/synthesisgroup.com.au-8bb34fcce7c9e4ed716d708af8b0e5b3

All the best on your project.
And one help my site is http://www.booktips.in can you pour some insites on how my site is (http://www.studiopress.community/topic/feedback-on-my-first-ever-site-with-wordpress/) here? Any suggestions are welcome!

[Dag-Erling]

Hey Dan

This page look lovely. Did you make the image slider yourself or is it a plugin?

I also like the menu when you scale down the page on the side.

I think you need to take a look at the fonts though. On my screen they are very hard to read on the whitebackground.

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