Genesis Sample – Footer Widget Missing on Home Page?

[LaunchPad777]

Hello there,

Working on client site using Genesis Sample Theme......

I inserted a Footer Widget and it shows up on all the pages except the Home Page...

You can see the widget on this page:
http://www.gpmotorworks.co.za/job-card/

Any ideas?

Appreciate your help.

Best regards
Greg

http://www.gpmotorworks.co.za

[Ren Ventura]

Do you have anything in your functions.php or elsewhere that could be conditionally removing this area from the front page (or adding only to inner pages)?

Also, in the spirit of trying to help you improve it, the design needs a lot of work. Perhaps it's in the beginning stages and you have a lot yet to do. Currently, however, it's not pleasant to read or look at. From an outsider's perspective, I wanted to leave the moment I landed on it. I mean absolutely no offense and want this to be some helpful, constructive criticism. As such, here's a few thoughts for improvement:

1. The top image/logo is poor quality and it doesn't respond to smaller screens.

2. The solid black background and lack of color makes the site feel unapproachable.

3. The bold red borders are too much. With all that red and black, again, it doesn't have a friendly/comfortable feel.

4. The page titles and additional headers on many of the pages make the text appear jumbled.

5. The images are low quality. I believe it's better to use no images than to use poor images. I'd check with the client to see if they have anything better.

6. The navigation spanning the full width of the screen when nothing else does looks weird, especially in that location because it's kind of cutting the page into sections.

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[LaunchPad777]

Hey Ren,

Thanks for the feedback....absolutely no offence taken at all...good to get constructive analysis!!!

The owner of the business is quite set on what he wants the site to look like.

Do you have anything in your functions.php or elsewhere that could be conditionally removing this area from the front page (or adding only to inner pages)?
I haven't added anything to cause this that I know of...what do I look for?

Also, in the spirit of trying to help you improve it, the design needs a lot of work. Perhaps it’s in the beginning stages and you have a lot yet to do. Currently, however, it’s not pleasant to read or look at. From an outsider’s perspective, I wanted to leave the moment I landed on it. I mean absolutely no offense and want this to be some helpful, constructive criticism. As such, here’s a few thoughts for improvement:

1. The top image/logo is poor quality and it doesn’t respond to smaller screens.
- I designed the image and it needs a bit of work....the border needs to be trimmed.
- The issue with all the images is that Google factors in Page Load Speed into their algorithm which now plays an important part in ranking. So as designers we are faced with resizing good images that don't create too much of an overhead on page size. The aim is for each web page not to exceed 300kb in size....
-How do you make the image responsive?

2. The solid black background and lack of color makes the site feel unapproachable.
- Agree with you on this, it is a bit stark....We want to change the background by creating a watermark effect to make it look a little bit more alive
- As a matter of interest what would you do with the colour scheme?

3. The bold red borders are too much. With all that red and black, again, it doesn’t have a friendly/comfortable feel.
- Again agreed....this is what the client wants....he has just had his business logo re-designed (what you see in the header image)

4. The page titles and additional headers on many of the pages make the text appear jumbled.
- Are you talking about the H1 and H2 headers?
- Suggestions - should I reduce the sizeof these headers?

5. The images are low quality. I believe it’s better to use no images than to use poor images. I’d check with the client to see if they have anything better.
- The funny thing is that we got a professional photographer to take shots....again the problem is not to overload the overall page size, especially on pages like the Gallery where there are 10 images...
- So I might start with an image that is 3Mb in size and I want to get it down to 50kb, so I resize it and then run it thru Faststone Image Resizer to reduce....
- What do you do to reduce the image size?

6. The navigation spanning the full width of the screen when nothing else does looks weird, especially in that location because it’s kind of cutting the page into sections.
-I tried to reduce the Nav using this code:

/* REDUCE WIDTH OF NAV MENU */
.nav-primary {
    width: 1024px;
}

But it causes the Nav menu to go off the page to the left....can't seem to find a way to get it in the center?

Appreciate that you have taken so much time to help...

Best Regards
Greg

[LaunchPad777]

Hey Ren,

Please look at this when you can....

Regards
Greg

[LaunchPad777]

Hi there,

Still need help on the original problem:
Working on client site using Genesis Sample Theme……

I inserted a Footer Widget and it shows up on all the pages except the Home Page…

You can see the widget on this page:

http://www.gpmotorworks.co.za/job-card/

Any ideas?

Best regards
Greg

[Ren Ventura]

Hi, Greg. Sorry for the delay on this. Apparently, I didn't subscribe to the thread so I haven't been getting email updates. I just looked at the site again and I'm seeing the footer widgets area on your home page. Were you able to get this fixed?

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Web & Software Developer & Blogger | RenVentura.com | Follow Me on Twitter @CLE_Ren

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