[John HParticipant]

Thanks Kyle. I decided to do the one page, partially because at the time we did not have a lot of content for the site, and I thought it would look ‘bigger’ if it was all one page. Also, I wanted us to have a tech saavy image. Since this site had very little image assets and is very text focused, using the one page feel, makes it look more visually interesting by using the different background colors for each section.

I customized the theme a bit by adding a Javascript History -1 back button that show up on all posts. The Read More that appears on the One Pager goes to posts and we lose the top menu of the one pager, (which I think works visually), and adding the Back button gives it just the right amount of navigation for the user for an uncluttered user experience.

Response from our customer base has been super positive, they thought it was cutting edge and sophisticated. So it’s been very successful for us.

My one caveat is I didn’t realize how complicated the One Pager code is, and it takes a long time to load the page with the many files and large background images to load. I don’t have the most powerful web host, and I ended up using Google PageSpeed to speed up the load (Though I disabled Page Speeds manipulation of the CSS and Javascript, which messed up the display of the site). Now it has acceptable load times.

[CarlHalesDaviesParticipant]

Here is my personal business website, I created using the integrity stack

http://www.dancingfever.co.uk/

What do you think?

Tried to keep it easy to use for our students/customers

Thinking about having a login section, for our students to register and get access to instructional dance videos. Any suggest on the best way to do this?

Thanks

[NuclearDreamsParticipant]

After a bit of work I’ve finished my site.

http://software4free.net

At the moment I have around 90 software titles posted, my goal is 800+.

I’d appreciate any suggestions. 🙂

[KyleKeymaster]

Hi John – Thanks for the insights! The hosting environment certainly makes a difference as well as image compression. If you require so many heavy resources to be on one page, you may also want to look into some sort of lazy load option as well. Cheers, my friend!

Carl – Love the top part of the site! I’d try to break up the middle and bottom sections with images and smaller chunks of text. It is hard to consume in current form as it is so text heavy. This is always a challenge in layout out content as there is a tendency to try to get everything on one page. Try to think of your home page as like the entry to your home. You walk in and can see other rooms in the house to go to. This invites people to engage with your site in a more user friendly/consumable manner.

Keith – It’s great to see some more community oriented sites. Nothing jumps out to me on first pass aside from a slightly long initial load. I might consider the formatting a bit of the individual software title pages to give them a little more weight with things like galleries of images, large testimonials, etc – stuff that can break up the text a little bit.

[NuclearDreamsParticipant]

I turned off the Post Carousel, now the site loads a little faster. 😉

[KyleKeymaster]

It shouldn’t be the Post Carousel, however it does feel a bit laggy. You might want to consider reviewing the different 3rd party tools you have integrated with in addition to our KB article on performance.

Cheers!

[glenh82Participant]

Hi all

Pretty happy to launch my site. Truth is I couldn’t wait, and there’s bugs I’m finding every hour… however..

here it is: http://glenandfiona.com

Let us know what you think.
Thanks
Glen

[sasinsineParticipant]

This is great. Thanks for sharing!

[AmaravatiParticipant]

Hello X,

Thank you for helping me on this journey of Wordpess! Without any Wordpess experience, theme X has helped me to tackle most simple and complicated matters.

As a monastery we try to simplify, rather than complicate life. Therefore the site try to accomplish this by showing less clutter, flat design, spaces, no dropdown menu’s and limited colors (except some color photos here and there). For the homepage it seems that having a large black and white picture gave a certain contrast compared to the many other sites that usually explodes with colors. The tips of Erik Strattord (see Expert section of X) resembles a lot what we tried to accomplish here.

Amaravati Buddhist Monastery –> http://www.amaravati.org

Best wishes,

Amaravati

[KyleKeymaster]

Glen – The site looks wonderful! Love the attention to detail you put and connecting the whole “feel” of the site to one cohesive presentation. Thanks for sharing, my friend!

Welcome, Signe!

Amaravati – The finished product came out great! Happy to hear some of the feedback from our Experts helped in shaping the overall strategy.

[Ryan PParticipant]

Just wrapped up a wedding site for an outstanding couple. If any of you feel so inclined, they are collecting donations for work in Jamaica.

Link: http://www.markncate.com

[KyleKeymaster]

Hi Ryan,

Thanks for sharing…the site looks wonderful, and Mark and Cate seem to be a wonderful couple! It is great to see the work they will be committed to over the next year.

[Eve GParticipant]

Great site – I’m intrigued as to how you got thumbnails under your slideshow of ‘The Garden’ !! Do tell…

[sasinsineParticipant]

Thanks @kyle it’s a pleasure to join 🙂

And thanks to the forum for sharing all these extremely inspiring websites – it’s absolutely awesome!!!

Cheers Signe

[KyleKeymaster]

You got it, Signe! Thank-you very much for the kind words…we are proud to be able to partner with so many creative and talented folks 🙂

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