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I was just woundering how you guys are dealing with the new iPad as it has a 2048x1536 resolution on a 9.7" screen. I'd imagen websites would look really tiny on a tiny screen especially fixed width websites.

Hi, does anyone know of a free (or low cost) CSS3 editor please?
cheers
Kree

You really need to optomize your images. they took ages to download. As for the search "module/plug-in", don't most WP themes have one already built in? I know 2011 does.

Please review my site and let me know your thoughts and ideas on improvement please be as constructive as possible. the WP theme has been modified to provide content area other than the slider.
 
Im a newbie and modification was done by someone else and I just copied the codes to create further areas.
 
Its not finished yet as you can see. and still require a custom plugin to search and display.
 
Thanks and look forward to hear all feedback
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I was approached by someone today to build a website for them. Unfortunately the scope for the site was far beyond my skill level, so I pointed them in the direction of someone I know could handle it. Unusually, the person in question had a realistic budget , 8 to 10k, so it was like ashes in my mouth when I said I couldn't handle it. Has anyone else had to do this?

Sorry, I should have said. Chrome, Win7 64.
 
Just checked and still see that appear as viewport is reduced.

Hi DigitalYak, thanks for the kind comments. I totally agree with you on that one and if it were a site for a client then I would be adding more visually appealing stuff. The main reason I have not is because it is my own personal site. It not really for promoting my services greatly, more for me to add my own interests and store information that is important to me.
 
The project for me with the site is more content based and to create a site that will perform well in search engines and give the user a better experience (even over a crappy 3G connection lol) by using a CMS "out of the box" with only three contributed modules. Most importantly for me too is for the site to be fast as possible whilst doing everything I need it to do, as well as being as display friendly as possible!
 
Like I have mentioned it is an exercise for me and I plan to use my findings to help me further improve my company sites as well as clients.

Thanks for the kind feedback again Inspired and for the link to pingdom, look like a great tool! I see what you mean about the social links. I guess that's the issue with a lot of these tools, hubspots grader tool for instance grades my site 10 less out of 100 for not having the social links ahh!!!!!

loads quickly for me and re-sizes too. To be honest you could probably put a lot more content in the form of images and videos in there and there would not be a load problem.

Thanks so much for your reply Inspired, really helpful. With regards to the load time I have now aggregated and compressed the CSS files so hopefully this will now reduce the size and the number of requests made to the site.
 
I have done the same for Javascript files too. As part of core as a front end setting I can also cache pages and blocks, do you think this will help?
 
There is a module that allows for static page caching but for this (as noted above) I will not be installing any more contrib modules. Could you also expand a little more if you have the time please with regards to the input boxes blowing out at lower res. I can't see an issue at first glance anyway.
 
Thanks again so much for your time on this any any further advice and help would be very much appreciated.

In terms of performance there's a lot you can optimise. You should be combining and minifying your css and scripts first off.
 
I ran a couple of tests and >50% load time is just loading CSS. You have 17 separate http requests for ~60Kb of css.
 
Scripts too. I'm seeing 11 requests totalling 223.7 kB, though this only accounts for 30% of load time.
 
Design-wise, it's looking good though you do have an issue with input boxes blowing out at lower res. You should set a max-width on the inputs. Personally, I also find navigation at the top to be a nuisance on small screens, as I want to see content first, not nav, but that's more of a usability issue than anything else.
 
I love the 'out of the box' ethos, it's one I am very much in favour of. Keep up the good work

loads fast for me, responds good to screen size changes.

Hi,
 
Got stuck again on another slight wordpress issue.
 
So I have links at the bottom of each post pointing to the next/previous posts. It works but not exactly how I want it, here's an example:
 
Post A
Post B
Post C
Post D
 
Let's say I'm on post D. The previous link should point to C, and it does. The Next post I want to point to A (back to the beginning) but instead it just points to D (the page we're on).
 
I'm sure it's possible and probably simple, I can't seem to find help on Google though
 
Here's my code:

<?php $prev_post = get_adjacent_post( true, '', true ); $next_post = get_adjacent_post( true, '', false ); $prev_post_id = $prev_post->ID; $next_post_id = $next_post->ID; ?> <a href="<?php echo get_permalink($prev_post); ?>" class="prev-footer-item"> <a href="<?php echo get_permalink($next_post); ?>" class="next-footer-item">
 
Would love a little help!
 
Cheers,
~evu.

Hi there
 
Does anyone know of any good SEO apps for the iPhone / iPad?
 
I currently use Analyics which is ok - im not convinced its really accurate.
 
Theres no keyword tool apps - and Googles Keyword tool page doesnt like the mobile Safari browser for whatever reason..
 
Any thoughts would be good
 
thanks