Posted by sunshinee on May 24, 2010 at 9:32pm
Ohio Christian University recently launched Phase I of a site redesign using a Zen 2 subtheme. We're still cleaning up some rough edges and will have additional theming as we roll out some new features, but I thought I'd post here for a friendly critique. When complete, a vanilla version of the subtheme will be contributed to the community. Any feedback or suggestions would be appreciated.
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At nearly 90 requests and
At nearly 90 requests and over 500KB, the loadout on the front page is too heavy. Turning on CSS aggregation will help the former, but you may have to reduce the number of images or tighten up your compression to help the latter.
Also, ditch the "Printer-friendly" button and instead use print style sheets to get your pages to print out properly without requiring another click from your users. Zen supports this really well out-of-the-box, though later changes you've made to a theme will "break" things a little bit - your print stylesheet just needs to basically undo your breakage, and setting the text color to pure black and a serif font is a good idea as well. Not too tough.
Design-wise, though, I like it, and think it will do well as a contributed theme. Good work!
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Thanks
Thanks Garrett. Home page performance is something we're working on. I apparently have an error somewhere in the stylesheets which is breaking the site when CSS aggregation is enabled. Hoepfully I can identify that over the next day or two while I play catch-up on some other work.
I also appreciate your suggestion about the printer-friendly link. It kind of rolled over from the old design, so I didn't think much of it. However, I'm all for simplifying the display where possible... I need to think about this one. =)
Thanks again for the feedback!
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