Which Design Is Best? Can't Decide...

by Romeo90

Posted: 10 years ago 18 replies

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Hi Warriors,

I have had a blog for 5 months or so, but I am unsure of the theme I am using. I like it, but I know others think it is too 'heavy'.

Please tell me, in your opinion, which one:

1) Current theme (Magazine style theme): Here

2) Now decided - I went with option 1 above.

Obvs theme 2 (genesis) is on another domain, and I have just imported the posts etc into number 2, the widget areas etc haven't been set up yet.

Which one? 1 or 2? And why?

Thank you, I appreciate it.

#design #theme #wordpress

htmlthis 10 years ago

The second option looks cleaner and easier to follow to me.
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- Romeo90 10 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by htmlthis
  
  The second option looks cleaner and easier to follow to me.
  
  Thanks for your input, appreciate it.
  
  I am leaning heavily towards it, just trying to find the reasons NOT to change over.
  
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  Brandon Tanner 10 years ago
  
  I agree. The second one looks a lot cleaner, and more professional. The first one looks a little bit on the "tacky" side, IMO.
  
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  Paul Moss 10 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by Brandon Tanner
  
  I agree. The second one looks a lot cleaner, and more professional. The first one looks a little bit on the "tacky" side, IMO.
  
  ^ What he said.
  
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Romeo90 10 years ago

Thanks for your honesty Brandon.
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mojojuju 10 years ago

I think the first one would look better without the red div containing the text "Business, Money, Blogging, Internet Marketing, Product Creation, See The COMPLETE Archive of Articles >>>>>"...

Also, the huge dollar sign looks incredibly tacky.

I think if you get rid of some of the clutter, the first one would look better.

As is, I think the second one looks better, but I'd much prefer the first one if some of the visual clutter were removed.
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Romeo90 10 years ago

Yes, agreed, I have removed that top block now, but I still don't know if it is visually appealing or it confuses people - reason I say this is because of a high bounce rate.
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joyfulwraps 10 years ago

I vote for #2 because it is easier on the eyes and an overall better organized site.
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JonBird 10 years ago

I vote for #2 too.... looks way cleaner and professional. Just my 2 cents.
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Romeo90 10 years ago

Cheers for everyones 2 cents.

They are exactly the same as my 2 cents, and will be moving my theme to the Genesis Framework.

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HorseStall 10 years ago

The New Genesis theme gets an error.
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- cititoru 10 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by HorseStall
  
  The New Genesis theme gets an error.
  
  He got the solution and probably took the temporary site down.
  
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  Romeo90 10 years ago
  
  Hey, yes, I was just doing some testing with some minify settings to try and get the Google Speed Test up from 76, but the site malfunctioned when I changed the settings.
  
  Back up now though.
  
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JonBird 10 years ago

Sorry romeo90... I'm getting a 500 internal server error on option 2
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- Romeo90 10 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by JonBird
  
  Sorry romeo90... I'm getting a 500 internal server error on option 2
  
  Yes thanks Jon - option 2 was just a test site for me, I installed genesis there and imported my posts across just so i could ask here for the comparison between my current site, and the new genesis theme. I have now pulled the site on option 2 as it was just on a vacant domain i don't use.
  
  For anyone interested, this is how my new site looks with genesis installed:
  
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  Thanks for all the replies, really helpful, thread can be closed.
  
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Flippmate 10 years ago

I like your blog, love the content, I'm going to follow you... however I would clean up the graphics just a little more to give you a more professional look. Good luck!
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Romeo90 10 years ago

Thanks Marc, yes I agree the graphics needing cleaning up, I need to follow one standard for presenting them, especially within posts.

Thanks for your comments.
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Ken Houck 10 years ago

I like this theme. It is clean in my opinion.
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