Would love some feedback on my new site

[gpw11]

Hey, new to both Catalyst and Wordpress here and set out to build a simple static site for my employer. Honestly, I was finding it pretty brain wracking (my only previous experience in making a website was with Frontpage circa 2003 and a lot has changed), but Catalyst simplified everything for me.

Now, I'm having a hard time telling if it looks decent enough to pass for a professional home builder's site at this point (you know how it is when you're working on something - nothing is ever good enough and you start to lose perspective a bit) and would love some outside eyes to take a look and tell me what they think/offer suggestions.

Content (pictures, testimonials) is kind of light at this point, but we're working on it and my next goal is to step into the SEO side of things and try to increase that page rank....from 0...to something. Anything.

Anyways, thanks for your time and I really appreciate any opinions or help.

-G

http://www.pmhomes.ca/

[tcstr8]

Like the logo and the color layout.

There is a weird adjustment going on when you scroll through the images on the slider. When clicking the right arrow, the image and the single menu starts out a little outside the wrap, and then adjusts in. No idea what would be causing that, but maybe someone more knowledgeable than me will come along and help with that. Not sure whats generating the 2 square bullet points under the slider. I believe you just have to add some CSS similar to list-style: none; for that item to remove the bullet points.

The menu item that shows to the right of the slider image is probably overkill since you have all those menu items in the navbar at the top of the page.

PM Homes image on the About PM Homes page is hard to make out.

[deepsouth]

There's definitely something up with that slider. I'd look into that asap or use soemthing different. The navbar could do with some extra breathing space and maybe ditch the underlines. I'd also be tempted to pump up the body font by a px or two and use verdana (just because I hate the default arial).

[bambo]

Slider problem is the same as mentioned here http://catalysttheme.com/forum/showt...r-Layout-issue Actually it is more or less same slider. Start up Firebug or similar, see where Catalyst overrides CSS from slider - fix with !important or perhaps more specific targeting.

[tcstr8]

Playing around with the site referenced in the thread that Bambo referenced, I added !important on the margin and padding lines in the CSS and looks like it would fix the jerkiness

.flexslider .slides, .flexslider .slides li, .flexslider .flex-control-nav, .flexslider .flex-control-nav li, .flexslider .flex-direction-nav, .flexslider .flex-direction-nav li {
    list-style: none outside none;
    margin: 0 !important;
    padding: 0 !important;

[gpw11]

Thanks for all of the help. All of the issues brought up here have been addressed: Font changed, nav bar spaced a bit more, underlines removed, small logo taken off "About PM Homes" page until I can get something else up there (probably a lighter version..or just keep it clean).

As for the slider: I've been having an absolute nightmare with it. I added the code above to the CSS for the slider and, while it did manage to fix the jerky wrap issue, it also caused the page to do the weird drop when the slides changed as you can see now. I've narrowed this down to the first ".flexslider .slides" command in the code above, but that seems to both fix the wrap issue and eliminate the jump.

I spent the next couple of hours trying to find another slider (responsive ideally, but that's not crucial) but couldn't find anything that would really work for me. I had trouble setting most up (technical issues with image cropping and/or weird displays) and very few sliders seem to be responsive. As such, if anyone has any ideas on how to fix it, I'd love it. Otherwise I'll probably just replace the slider with a static image of the main PM Homes logo that shows first in the slider now.

Thanks agian.


Edit: Meteor Slides fixed this. Well, having the nav buttons on the side actually still had a different kind of "jerk", but removing them fixed everything. Plus, it doesn't support title captions, so that's done as well now. Just a pure image slider.

[eric]

I just posted a new Sticky to help with this kind of thing (regarding Slider Plugins):
http://catalysttheme.com/forum/showt...-Compatibility

Eric