[amplifiedsteve]

Hi Tom,

Many thanks for your input.

I will take at the points you've highlighted and will feed back here the outcome.
(Comic Sans? The horror!! I better get on that quick)

I remember copying over the Media Class CSS into my child theme, which was recommended from somewhere else on this forum - can't remember which post / discussion though.

I've removed that from my child theme CSS, so I'm using the default Media Classes and still same issue - zero padding left right of content.

Still getting my head round it all, so I'll investigate how to wrangle the logo in the sidebar and especially the font issue.

Thanks for taking a look.

Steve

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Steve Mullen – owner Brite Social – find me on Twitter and G+
Digital marketing consultant, WordPress builder with focus on leisure, destination and entertainment.

[amplifiedsteve]

Thanks for the feedback Toni, i was working towards an earthy / organic feel and the greens and browns were obvious choices for that... but it took a while in photoshop to get the right tones. Glad you approve 🙂

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Steve Mullen – owner Brite Social – find me on Twitter and G+
Digital marketing consultant, WordPress builder with focus on leisure, destination and entertainment.

[amplifiedsteve]

Chiming in here to say, thanks. I was having the same issue on mobile / logo but this worked a treat.

Would make sense if this would have automatically, so we dont have to touch the CSS. If you set the header / logo image in the CMS, it should reflect on all devices. Just my 2 cents 🙂

Thanks

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Steve Mullen – owner Brite Social – find me on Twitter and G+
Digital marketing consultant, WordPress builder with focus on leisure, destination and entertainment.

[amplifiedsteve]

Hey SDT,

Thanks for your input.

True enough bounce rate can be attributed to the content visitor sees and decided whether or not to engage with. Time on site is decent so content is being consumed. It can also be down to the layout of the site - I just found it intriguing that the bounce rate shot up after moving over to Genesis.

Interesting point to make about the hosting, I've been considering a more serious player but again, the issues seem to have arisen after moving over to Genesis so Im exploring whether there's a correlation / cause & effect.

Also, the point you raised with Dynamik. I will take a look at again in more details - thanks.

I have just installed WP Super Cache and I have to say that the load speed has been improved from just over 5 secs to 1.3 seconds - thats just great! Thanks for the heads up on WP Super Cache - never really considered that plugin before.

Cheers

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Steve Mullen – owner Brite Social – find me on Twitter and G+
Digital marketing consultant, WordPress builder with focus on leisure, destination and entertainment.

[amplifiedsteve]

Hey Dave,

Thanks for chipping in - much appreciated 🙂

The reason I use 960px width if for repurposing the same image for say a full page width post - or sharing in Pinterest. I resize the image in WordPress to the correct width byt adding a width attribute to the image. I also try to compress the data wight down to 100kb in photoshop 'save to web'. However, I do see that I haven't compress the featured image in the most post - it was getting late! So I'll compress that reattach and test the load time again.

Interesting point about the hosting being in Australia and that having an impact on load times ...

But I still don't get how the Bounce Rate has changed so much. It could be:

1. Page Load
2. Content not compelling enough (worrying, but entirely possible!)
3. Theme layout / internal navigation not compelling enough

I've made a real difference to load times by installing the W3 Total Cache (which I now fully recommend others do). So lets see what happen over the next few days.

I'll report back here if anyone's interested to learn the outcome.

Thanks again Dave you rock \m/

Steve

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Steve Mullen – owner Brite Social – find me on Twitter and G+
Digital marketing consultant, WordPress builder with focus on leisure, destination and entertainment.

[amplifiedsteve]

@Andrea @Vivek Thanks guys, good to be here. Looking forward to getting into Genesis more and learning / helping the community where I can. Cheers 🙂

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Steve Mullen – owner Brite Social – find me on Twitter and G+
Digital marketing consultant, WordPress builder with focus on leisure, destination and entertainment.

[amplifiedsteve]

Ah, got it! Thanks 🙂

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Steve Mullen – owner Brite Social – find me on Twitter and G+
Digital marketing consultant, WordPress builder with focus on leisure, destination and entertainment.

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