TheChad":3r703k6z said:
First let me say, I work in IT so my view point is from working with these type of sites. If you are looking for free blog space they can be great.
I agree with the others on the colors. It is easy on the eyes.
The logo is nice as well. I am assuming from it you specialize in rabbits and chickens. May have a farm for apple and pumpkins. If that isn't the case, it might stand a change. Logos in this area should represent what products you specialize in if you use them in it.
I would increase the Font size on the Title. It should stand out. Try it above and below the logo if possible. I know some of these standard formats for blogs don't always offer that. I would also change the font on the title to make it stand out from the other text in the blog.
I would also look at adding some form of navigation. The problem with blogs is finding old articles of interest. The search function is good, but having a way to navigate to all articles concerning rabbits or chickens will help to increase your hits and offer up more information to those looking for articles like that.
Are you wanting it to be a website or more of a blog? The format\style you are using is a blog layout. If you play to use it for commerce, then I would not use this style unless you plan to create that site later and just link to this as your blog.
I hope this helps. Good luck!
Thanks so much for the tips! It's always nice to talk to someone who actually works with websites. I try to read and research things but it's not the same as working with them everyday.
This isn't a free blog site. I have my own hosted server (digitalocean) which is run on nginx. I have several other sites I've built.
http://colorgenetics.info is the main one. It's also the reason why I have my own server. This is however, the first one I've actually tried to theme from scratch. All the other themes were purchased with fairly minor changes. Since it's the bootstrap theme for drupal so I can pretty much make any changes I want.
I'll make the site title larger :lol: and see about a different font. I'll have you know, I went to alot of trouble trying to get that title to fit beside the logo correctly :gun: 8) :lol:
I will add more navigation as I add pages. I plan on doing static pages for the animals/farm, and then having blog posts as well. It's easy to do blog archive navigation in Drupal. I will also probably do a photo gallery just because they are fun to do. I'm sure wordpress has some wonderful tools as well but I started with Drupal years ago and have mostly stuck with it because that is what I know. I will also add a module that rewrite the urls to the article titles instead of the generic /node/1.
I'm gratified that everyone likes the logo. I did it myself and I'm not normally very artistic. I actually drew the tree and then used opensource clip art for the rabbit, pumpkin, and chickens. Inkscape is the program I used if anyone is interested. It's an open source vector graphics program. I was trying for simple yet explanatory and evidently I managed to do it. Yaye!
We do have a small young orchard (5 apple trees, 2 peach, 3 plum, 2 muscadine vines, 7 blackberry, and hopefully a mulberry tree if I can get my transplant to live). Pumpkins/squash are some of my favorite things to grow. This year I grew Jonathan pumpkins, yellow squash, tatume squash, hubbard squash, lady Godiva squash, and the regular Halloween pumpkins. For the past 3 years the Halloween pumpkins have come back every year by just throwing the pumpkins over the fence. The seem to grow quite nicely without my help. That is probably why I like to grow pumpkins so much. It might be interesting though next year to see what cross pollination happened with all the different c. pepo I grew. Then we have chickens for eggs and I raise rabbits for meat.
Ok I think I rambled enough I'm done...
Oh what does everyone think of the purple footer I added? I'm not sure I like it, but I can't seem find anything I like better.