ZoomConcept Reviews
Serious Problem on Home.jpg 1 too dark? 2 I can't recognize this as a button 3 Maybe it's just me, but I don't feel the font for the beach. it's modern and sleek but it's cold for the beach. Serious Problem on themeforest-typography.jpg 1 boring area, add some images to make alive. -
Aaran Casey commented:and decide on actually how many columns you intend to have - messy
Positive Feature on Home.jpg 1 really good background -
Aaran Casey commented:
It's a good background, but it might take a loooooong time to load, think about the end user.
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Penn Folio commented:true!
2 header is also nice New Idea on Home.jpg 1 make your CTA pop Summary:
The first one is really good, it's eye catching. The design looks clean and organize, but It's also looks generic though I understand it's for a theme.
I think you need to put some uniqueness with the design in order to sell it more. I have observe that without the beach background it will looks boring. You need to make the design elements to have a consistent tropical feel, currently there's a separation between your images and with your website and it's elements.
Just check my notes to see what i think needs some tweaking.
Goodluck and I hope this helps!
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Minor Problem on Home.jpg 1 Not sure about this line? Is it hover too? Or only when you're on the page? My suggestion would be to kill the line and bring the nav to the base of the logo alignment. -
Nick Glavin commented:Agreed was going to be a hover / active state however agree with you completly
Minor Problem on themeforest-blog-internal.jpg 1 Again, quite a lot of space to fill for the owner, maybe the bar is a bit too thick? 2 Quite a lot of space here, is this intentional? -
Nick Glavin commented:
yeah the space at the end is just the template hasn't been cleaned up or the footer put in
Positive Feature on Home.jpg 1 Seems to be a popular web design feature these days, works well on this site. 2 Great simplicity!! I hope by now most web users know the logo ;) 3 Excellent positioning + spacing Positive Feature on Home2.jpg 1 Love this colour scheme a lot more, especially the background, the image doesn't conflict as much as the first example. 2 Sexy button. Ties in extremely well! 3 Great colour combinations! Positive Feature on themeforest-blog-internal.jpg 1 Love this! Great way to narrow all the meta out in a well presented format. Love the graphics too. 2 Very nice overall layout of the page. Positive Feature on themeforest-typography.jpg 1 Again, really nice layout and styles. Love the table. New Idea on Home.jpg 1 Maybe a tad bit more drop shadow? New Idea on Home2.jpg 1 May need to darken this colour slightly to provide a bit more emphasis, or maybe lighten the background a little more? 2 Would love to see this as a rotating jscript slideshow. -
Nick Glavin commented:
Yeah the footer is a bit of a sore point at the moment gotta really get those headings working.
The top image will be jquery (2/3 variations) there are buttons there at the moment but i think must be too light . Again Great points
New Idea on themeforest-blog-internal.jpg 1 maybe make this a slightly transparent dropdown? soften it up a little. 2 I think I'd prefer to have this on the homepage too, maybe a subtle one in the footer on the right? or even a menu item where the dropdown is the search bar? Kinda like the new twitter login? -
Nick Glavin commented:
Again great points thanks
Other on Home.jpg 1 Too many slots for a homepage? How flexible will the template be to remove any of these lines if the user doesn't have sufficient content to make it? -
Nick Glavin commented:
Yeah the ideas is that it be extreamly flexable short codes for 1,2,3,4.
Summary:
A pretty sleek theme. Looks like it will suit any wordpress user well in terms of functionality and practicality.
The theme without the image background in the more aqua coloured theme is much more appealing.
You've done a wonderful job overall!
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Rebecca Perry commented:nice, in-depth review...
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Minor Problem on Home.jpg 1 The logo isn't centered with the menu, which makes it visually confusing. Also, the dot after the "e" isn't really necessary...is it? -
Aaran Casey commented:
agreed
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Nick Glavin commented:
agreed first thing ill fix and the dot is as good as gone.
2 The right hand side of the menu isn't flush with the right hand side of the container, you need to push it 20-30 pixels across so that it lines up. 3 This line doesn't really add anything to the page, it just detracts from the view of it. Consider a different way of showing the active page, maybe bolded text, underlined, or perhaps a different colour? 4 If this is going to wrap around, it shouldn't cut off the bottom of the photograph. 5 These do not correlate - "help you" and "buy this theme" are two different things, if this is not intended it should be fixed. 6 These lines just detract from the actual information, they're unnecessary Positive Feature on Home.jpg 1 These are quite effective at showing the hierachy of your image/text 2 Again, these are good in my opinion Positive Feature on themeforest-blog-internal.jpg 1 Good, effective block quote New Idea on Home.jpg 1 Move this onto the right hand side to get the right flow going 2 Perhaps make these titles brighter, a white or off-white maybe. -
Nick Glavin commented:
agreed
Summary:
This is a good start, and with a few tweaks could become really effective.
I'm personally not a big fan of full-photo backgrounds, I think the teal/bluey-greeny background complements your theme much better.
Good luck selling this on TF!
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New Idea on Home.jpg 1 I would make this the background image, and have the sand as the background for the main text area. Summary:
I like your first image, however for me the top image doesnt line up with the background. On your other submissions the background doesn't have the same impact as the first concept.
Grey isnt normally a colour you associate with tropical islands, change the headers and button colours to something a little more pleasant.
Minor Problem Spice up the headings
Like another user said. The 5th page with all the text looks bland. The If you give the titles a colour this could help spice up the page and gives users a "path" through the page. Because it wont be a grey wall of text anymore.Minor Problem on themeforest-typography.jpg 1 What happens here? Additional images is what I think. But what happens if the user decides to not use those additional images? Positive Feature Lots of room
For a wordpress theme this one has lots of room on the homepage. A lot of themes have the blog wall at the front and thats something I dislike. You can do a lot of things with this theme and thats good.Summary:
I cant find many things wrong with this design. Its lay-out is good. One thing you can do to prevent the "cluttered" look some people are mentioning is to allign the 3 columns to the sides of the 4 columns. Personally tho, I dont think it looks that weird.
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Emma Simpson commented:This is one of a number of totally empty reviews I've seen you put up so far. If you're thinking of putting up a concept after this, I would suggest you pay the premium price.
Basically Concept Feedback works so that if you want to post concepts for free then you take part in the community and put up thoughtful feedback for others. If you don't have the time or inclination to do this then you pay to post your concept to help keep the site running for everyone else. Either way you're putting into the community to get something out of the community.
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Not to mention you have four columns and then 3 that just looks messy...