Critique My Header Please?

[microb101]

Hi Everybody;

I have installed Gobala Krishnan's Super Adsense Theme "On-Line-Money" as my new Blog's Skin. I replaced the original header with a modified version I worked on until I was cross-eyed.

If someone would be so kind as to review it and get back to me, I would be most grateful. I would like for it to be better and that will take a different set of eyes.

Your input good or bad will be received with an opened mind!

The URL for the header is http:/newbies-marketing-info.com

Thank You
Michael Robinson

[WordpressConsultant]

Originally Posted by microb101

Hi Everybody;

I have installed Gobala Krishnan's Super Adsense Theme "On-Line-Money" as my new Blog's Skin. I replaced the original header with a modified version I worked on until I was cross-eyed.

If someone would be so kind as to review it and get back to me, I would be most grateful. I would like for it to be better and that will take a different set of eyes.

Your input good or bad will be received with an opened mind!

The URL for the header is http:/newbies-marketing-info.com

Thank You
Michael Robinson

Everything seems okay, except your permalink setting. Please correct it. You can see it display: %post%/postname. Look strange.

[microb101]

Thanks for having a look at the header.

As for the permalink, I did have it working better than it is now but I started playing around with; /%post_id%/%postname%/ and /%category%/%postname%/


Each time I changed things it seemed to have got a little worse. So I put it too rest for a little while. Not more than a couple of hours passed when you caught the mistake.

But I will get it to look right even if I have to delete every post and restart from the beginning which may not be a bad idea.

Thank You
Michael Robinson

[petereff]

Hi I like your new header, but something is not displaying correctly in your left sidebar.

Petereff
http://definition-of-leadership.com/yourlife/

[microb101]

Hi Petereff

I think you are refering to the lack of a blue background within the adsense block. Yet there is a blue border around the ad.

I must confess to changing it on purpose. It has a bit of an odd look to it I agree. Just enough to make you look at it. As to it being good or bad. I don't know yet.

Perhaps I should change the border to white as well.

Unfortunetly I have problems my web host. Cheap is not the way to go even for a young blog without traffic. Half the time I can't even open the c-panel or wordpress admin.

I am taking a look at Midphase hosting, they have a few awards and a good reputation but I'm not commited as yet.

By the way I like the tabs below your header.

Thanks for having a look.

Michael Robinson
http://newbies-marketing-info.com

[marketplanhq]

You asked for comments on your header. I suggest shortening the subtitle so it doesn't wrap, as it does in my browser. If you removed "the" and added an "s" to "marketer", that might make the difference.

If you could make the main title a bit bigger and add some "padding" (as it says in the CSS) between, that would be good, too.

If not, how about all caps for the main title. I believe the theme it was designed for all caps, and that's why there is not enough leading when there's a descender (the "g" in Marketing).

Mainly, though, I'd shorten the subtitle.

BTW, I'm not seeing any Adsense ads at all--just big empty spaces. That makes the sidebar arrangement look very odd. It also overemphazes the Links at the expense of the other widgets.

Unsolicited comment #1: You could really use some graphics.

Unsolicited comment #2: The left column (where texts of the posts are) is a bit wide in relation to the size of the type. That makes it harder to read the type. (Technically the eye has difficulty tracking from the right end of one line to the left end of the next one.)

If you can't narrow the column, how about making the type a bit larger? That would open up the page a lot.

Then, to make sure visitors notice all your posts, you could break them with the "read more" command. That gives you less displayed text in relation to the number of post headings on the front page, increasing readability by opening up the page.

Unsolicited comment #3: You really need to add a photo (or at last a logo or related graphic) and a nice intro about yourself to the About page.

I hope this helps. I'm a publication designer by education and training (BA in journalism, minor in graphic design, trained in book design at a publishing house, have designed websites and supervised web projects for corporations). So I'm not *totally* talking off the top of my head.

Best wishes for success,

Kathleen in Texas