I was taught that pages with content that start within 100 lines are favoured by search engines. Also, your code is prettier!

Seeing all the CSS and Javascript for the depth of 2 or 3 monitors is like juggling elephants. It is neater to keep it external in my opinion.

I prefer the simplistic approach :)

Mine is www.samuelgohblog.com

Cheers

I too like this approach. The content then becomes king and after all the content is what the site is there for.

Nice job.

Hi All,

I am getting skilled with ATA. Thanks.

http://mrblog.net/wp/

I prefer version 3.5.3 and use it exclusively for most of my client projects.

My site - WordPress Pro Services

The Portfolio page has quite a few sites listed using ATA 3.5.3

I am using 3.5.3 on fastharry.com too and I am not sure I want to switch up to the new version.


Leave well enough alone...esp with a few thousand visits a month.,.

be aware, if any issues crop up, they won't be back version fixed and changes to WordPress could eventually cause any old version to stop working.

The only thing you don't have by upgrading is being able to use PHP in the theme options (wordpress requirement) so if you are not using any PHP in the options, you should try upgrading. You can have multiple versions installed on the same site - see here

just saying...

Advice please

I am not showing off, just don't where to post this
http://www.rescueremedies.co.uk/
http://www.staffierescue.co.uk/

2 websites using this theme and tinymc tables plugin for the images.
I am a volunteer, a novice helping a group of Londoners save dogs on death row.

Ok the problem is the sites are perfect on my pc/apple equipment.
I use firefox and the dreaded IE also safari to view

Now some members of the public using IE are saying the page is skewif and looks dreadful.
I know firefox is ideal but I have to cater for the viewers will little IT knowledge.
Please view the image. Any advice appreciated. Thank you Alison

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I checked your site in IE, FF, Chrome and Safari. Other than being quite slow to load the pictures and banner, it looks fine. I suspect that some of your members may have older browsers and over that you have no control.

Off the top, I would make the javascript and css external.

Make your page names something real with permalinks /%postname%/

I find the heavy use of flash (which might also be a problem for older browsers) irritating. When I click on Staffie or Terrier rescue, waiting for it to load is a drag and then all the special effects drive me nuts. I would be gone, looking for an RSPCA site with less twirly things

I also personally find the amount of red pretty overwhelming, but that is purely a matter of taste. When I checked staffierescue, the colour choices are not just a matter of taste. The pink and blue are very hard to look at together, and once again, I would be quickly gone. Pick colours that are not so harsh and so opposite each other. There are lots of colour scheme generators to help you.

Hope this helps

Thanks Sharon, I have no choice in the colours, the team choose them

'Off the top, I would make the javascript and css external'

As a novice could you explain a little more about your comment

Go to Atahualpa Theme Options. down at the very bottom there is Configure CSS and JS. The default for some peculiar reason is inline. Pick External. That way your content is about 200 lines closer to the top of your page and it is much neater.

As for the colour, art by committee always sucks. There is a reason the pink and blue page is hard to look at. The colours are not harmonious, especially when you look at it with a lighted monitor, not on a printed page. It is very harsh to the eye.

Have a look at this page:
http://www.colormatters.com/color-an...c-color-theory
Half way down the page is a section on colour harmony and a little further down the page is a section called colour context. Look at that red and blue, how hard it is to look at.

Here is a site that you can play with:
http://www.colorsontheweb.com/colorwizard.asp I put in your pink colour and chose a number of different options. Your site's colours are close to the tetradic selection. Look at the attached image and compare.

ps My sister runs Cocker Spaniel Rescue BC here in Canada. www.csrbc.org I did her website a number of years ago, it is basic html. But you will see how the blues and greens are complimentary and it is very easy on the eye.

I really appreciate your advice, thank you Sharon
I will use the colours on my personal sites

the London websites, I have no control at all, shame really

Cocker site is very easy on the eye
http://www.staffierescue.co.uk/
I have changed to external
Any other tips for a novice, gratefully accepted

Sure. Send me a link to your own site. My site is awful because I never have time to update it! Here is one I am working on now....is in a back folder, hence the funny name.
http://ghost.securenet-server.net/~fairburn/

Sharon I will stay in contact, my own site is on the backburner with all the rescue work

I have solved the issue with internet explorer and the over lapping of images

Google IE compatibility problem and it opens an easy solution, very simple for viewers who favour IE as their choice of browser. Personally prefer FF

Nice clean looking website
Thanks for your support

This is my recent site re-design. I checked it out on GTmetrix and got a double 'A' grade.

HopeFaithPrayer Blog

How does it read and look?

Thanks, Rex

Looks really good, Rex. Nicely done! What plugin is the share bar? i really like the effect. Also how did you get the Twitter link in the banner. Very cool.

Some recent sites I've done with Atahualpa:

http://solcellepriser.dk
This one incorporating bbPress into Atahualpa with the use of a child theme. That was interesting... :-)

http://bagerigaarden.dk

Both very nice sites, very clean looking the Bagerigaarden site looks nothing like a regular Atahualpa site, I am going to check out your CSS!!

SharonJ is right, love the design on the Bagerigaarden site - it must be very heavily modified from the stock Atahualpa install!

Thank you, you are welcome.

My pride and joy
 

Hi,
this is my first site created with atahualpa and i am still learning new and interesting things to do with this amazing theme.
www.carinsura.com

Although it's live at the moment it is still very much a work in progress

Please feel free to give me feedback and ways to improve it.

thabks BFA

Hi Perry, that is a nice, clean site. Partially because I am turning into an old fogey myself but I am also aware of the number of people who live with disabilities, I would change the font from #666666 to #000000, or at least I would make it larger.

OR there is a nice plugin called Font Resizer. You can see it and try it out here:
http://billroutley.com. It is on the lower right hand side in the side bar.

Made this website with Atahualpa:

www.catsaroundtheglobe.com

Atahualpa is really amazing as a theme, its so customizable and each website can have a totally unique look and feel!

what a fun site! how did you get the menu bar with the graphics and mouse-overs???? Can you direct me to a thread about how to do that? I really like it.

Thank you Sharon! For the menubar on www.catsaroundtheglobe.com I used div's in the style/edit header area (and styled them in the html/css inserts option of atahualpa) I'm using semi-transparent PNG files as background items for the menu. The topmenu is static, which means that you will have to put it in there yourself, instead of it being populated by wordpress. But im sure its doable to make it populate automatically, it wasnt worth the effort for me because those pages will stay the same.

I made some significant changes to my Atahualpa powered site earlier today.

Here's a screen shot from a few days ago (the style was the same this morning): http://www.ajgraves.com/images/ajgraves.com.old.jpg

And now here is where I'm at currently: http://www.ajgraves.com/

I really love what some of you have done with Atahualpa, it's amazing exactly how flexible this theme really is! I know for sure that I will immediately attempt an Atahualpa based solution to any future projects, and on existing ones I am going to begin evaluating making the transition.

Would it be too much to ask if you could share and example of your coding?

If you inspect the items with Firebug you can see the coding for @egjweb's site. That along with the explanation is a pretty complete description.

For some reason, Firebug does not work well for me. I should probably try uninstalling and reinstalling. It pops all over the place, I cannot see where the coding is, it is hugely frustrating. I watch the how to videos and mine does not do anything like the simplicity of what they show. :(

Attached is a screenshot of what I see when I view the site in question. You can see how the code is clearly shown.

Thank you Larry! By messing around and trying to copy exactly your screenshot, I was able to see the coding. This is definitely a case of end user error (me)!

Here's a recent Wordpress website I built for a local business...
http://www.clearcleanmaintain.com/

A very nice site. A couple of points though...

On your map page, your map is very slow to load because it is over 600K and

1,024px × 972px (scaled to 493px × 468px) Tut tut tut!

You want to resize your map to 493 x 468. There are probably still lots of people on dial-up who will not want to wait until it downloads in slow increments.

Also your team photos are pretty fuzzy. Any way of sharpening them up?

Warning, may not be suitable for all tastes

porcelainpleasurz.com

Threw it together over night for a friend. Had to sign up to the forum to learn how to do a few things. Thanks guys.

Woot! You might have mentioned what kind of site it was. The "Group Photo" on the home page is hilarious. Reminds me of the Chinese clay warriors all lined up behind each other.
What I like is the neat gunge background and the nifty Twitter and Youtube buttons.

Where did you find those?

Found them on the internet ha think i googled "social networking icons" ill hook u up. I photoshopped them a bit but there you go.

another one i did is, www.wegrowaz.com also nsfw different topic tho :)

Hello,

I was running a private, non-profit magazine for music, games and hardware with some friends. We had startet this as a fanzine like 20 years ago and got eaten up by the running costs, so that we switched to an internet magazine in the late nineties.
The old page, still to be found at www.archiv.tribe-online.de was a pure html based page, as it was custom in that time. The design was made by another friend, and for each and every new review or story we had to manually layout the article with dreamweaver.

Sadly my friend that did the main layouting work, passed away this February after cancer, in his last will had asked me and the remaining other friend to continue with his work and to keep the magazine alive. We decided that we would not have enough time to keep doing all the time consuming layout and I opted for changing the page to CMS as I had started my own blog at www.hody.de a year earlier.
First I ended up buying some blank themes and figured I was not able to create the new site layout and all needed add-ons myself without help and facing a huge bill, when another friend pointed me to Atahualpa. He was doing the layout of a local bar www.walfisch-freiburg.de with it for which I am doing twitter and facebook. Soon I realized that Atahualpa was the way to do our new site layout and thanks to the help of the community in this forum and especially by juggledad and lmilesw I was able to finish this project successful. View my work at www.tribe-online.de

P.S.: Thanks you two guys, you really made it happen!

A very nice, clean site, Hody. I must agree with you. Of all the websites I design, 99% of them use Atahualpa. The other members of this forum and particularly the moderators are endlessly helpful. I learn something new every day. Congratulations on all your hard work and I am very sorry for the loss of your friend.

Atahualpa is the best theme out there.
our tech blog runs on it.

http://shrewdgeek.com

Thanks for your kind words, was not sure if the design is appealing. How are loading times?