HATE MY SITE
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Can you help me? I desperately need someone to help me understand what I need to do to make my site rock!
It is bonafidephoto.com
Do i need to load wordpress.org to be able to do things like change the font? I am not tech savvy at all… should I hire someone? I really hate the way it looks now. I have tried several different themes and none of them give me the professional feel I am looking for.
The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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I have blogged for many years. What many beginners do is devote all kinds of time and energy to fiddling, with widgets, themes, fonts, etc. and obsessing over stats, while failing to publish content frequently. Never forget that it’s the content that creates traffic and keep publishing fresh content frequently as your top priority always.
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Do i need to load wordpress.org to be able to do things like change the font?
Do you have the Premium bundle of upgrades http://store.wordpress.com/plans/premium/ or the Business bundle of upgrades http://store.wordpress.com/plans/business/ that both include the custom design upgrade?
As you did not register your username account prior to September 1st, 2014 and that was the cut-off date for purchasing the custom design upgrade as an individual upgrade, you will have to purchase the Premium bundle to get it.
What I post below applies to all themes free and premium (paid).
If you are into fiddling about with font families, sizes and/or colors on each and every post you make by using the Text editor (HTML editor) then you can change it in the body text in posts and pages. But for changing it in Titles and widget headings you need to purchase an upgrade.
These are 3 ways to change fonts on WordPress.com blogs.
(1) Changing font families, colors and size in text in posts or pages either post by post or page by page by coding into the Text ie. HTML editor. http://wpbtips.wordpress.com/2009/07/11/formatting-text-pt-5/
(2) Changing font colors in text in posts or pages either post by post or page by page using the #4 icon (Select text color – change the text color) in Row 2 the Visual editor. http://en.support.wordpress.com/visual-editor/#row-2
(3) Changing all font families, colors and sizes throughout the whole blog by purchasing an annually renewable Custom Design upgrade and using Typekit Fonts with Staff support.
http://en.support.wordpress.com/custom-design/
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I have tried several different themes and none of them give me the professional feel I am looking for.
There are theme filters that you can use to narrow your choices found after clicking the “find a theme” button here http://theme.wordpress.com/
84 photography themes are found at this link http://theme.wordpress.com/themes/subjects/photography/
154 Minimal WordPress Themes are found at this link
http://theme.wordpress.com/themes/styles/minimal/77 Elegant + Minimal WordPress Themes are found at this link
http://theme.wordpress.com/themes/features/minimal+elegant/ -
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If I was looking for a photographer, I would not rule you out based on the look of your site – does not bother me at allHowever – you don’t say where you are, city and state would be nice
Many of your pictures are large file sizes and the site is slow loading – I would shrink the file size down a bit – yes I know photographers want exhibition stuff on their site –
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Thank you – both, so much! I will definitely make some modifications and do some searching based on your feedback & opinions. Very VERY much appreciated!!!
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You’re welcome. I did not choose to post my response to the theme you are using initially as many people seem to like that appearance. I don’t like it at all. I especially dislike the fonts in that theme, and the grid like appearance. However, that’s just my taste.
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I thought I liked it.
Do you have any recommendations on which theme would fit a photography site well? I have tried SO many but they all feel “cheap” to me. (Which, I suppose, makes sense since I’ve only tried the freebies)Also, do you have any recommendations on resources to help get up to speed on how to do the more advanced mods?
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I like Hemingway Rewritten even though it’s not advertised as a photo0blogging theme https://wordpress.com/themes/hemingway-rewritten
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