Thanks for a great theme! Here's my beginner's effort at a static site…

McChazza
January 18, 2012 at 10:31 am #2878

The site is: http://www.graphenepartners.com

All comments greatly appreciated. This was produced after about a week after first installing WP / Graphene and with no prior development experience at all.

My choice of theme was merit-based – it’s a very happy coincidence that my company is also called Graphene! 🙂

Was very happy to have mastered a multi-language site and related network installation – before trying it I never thought I would be editing in SQL!

Now trying to get my head around:

– how to get the URL to stay as my domain name as opposed to the server (this is apparently difficult/impossible for network installations – any tips very gratefully received!)

– how to optimise for search engine indexing and where exactly to stick in the Google Analytics code

Best wishes and good luck to fellow Graphene users and thanks again for an excellent theme!

Adam

mangee
January 18, 2012 at 12:53 pm #22349

Nice attempt. I’ll suggest you make your home page more colourful with maybe a picture as well as including your logo.

Also consider introducing other options for people to navigate your site other than the menu bar especially on your home page.

Best of luck

Gbenga

McChazza
January 19, 2012 at 4:49 pm #22350

Thanks Gbenga – just need to make my logo first! 🙂 🙂

I have updated with some more links in the page itself.

Khairul – apologies, in my enthusiasm to trim down the site to minimalism I took out the developer credits. That was a shameful omission and I have re-inserted them. Apologies!

Mod

Kenneth John Odle
January 19, 2012 at 5:37 pm #22351

how to get the URL to stay as my domain name as opposed to the server

Your URL looks fine to me. Maybe it’s the computer you are viewing it from.

where exactly to stick in the Google Analytics code

Graphene Options >> General >> Google Analytics Options

I took out the developer credits

According to the theme’s license, this is okay. But it is a great theme and I think it’s nice when people include it.

Anonymous
January 20, 2012 at 5:25 am #22352

I don’t like how you used the name Graphene when the theme is named Graphene.

HayManMarc
January 21, 2012 at 10:16 am #22353

If you’re going for minimal/simplistic, you nailed it. My only suggestion would be to make your link color a little darker or something — make those links stand out! If you change the header image, make your links and language widget match it’s main color. And why not use a color photo of yourself?

Overall, it looks pretty good to me. Perhaps include the HOW WE HELP info on the front/home page instead of it’s own page?

McChazza
January 23, 2012 at 8:26 am #22354

Thanks all once again for your feedback!

@Kenneth: agree 100% about the developer credits – as I said, I put them straight back in and they are there to stay

@waloshin: I have been using the name Graphene for two years in business. I own a legally registered business entity in the UK called Graphene Partners. Hopefully you realise I didn’t go to all that trouble just to match the name of the theme. It’s a very nice coincidence.

@HayManMarc: great, thanks – another little task for me to master 🙂