A Review of La Rivista | free Wordpress theme by Susie Sahim

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  • Susie Sahim

    Susie Sahim

    Rank: 2 Titan

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    • Design: 5
    • Purpose: 4
    • Originality: 5
    • Engagement: 5
    1 Vote
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    Posted on Aug 29, 2010 at 11:46 PM

    This is a very beautifully designed theme. My thoughts: - I find my eyes completely ignored the navigation at the top. This could be because of the large photo. Perhaps the nav should be anchored below the logo. - seems odd that the category navigation is both to the right of the logo AND under the photo. I think the placement under the photo is more visible and fits better with the design of the theme. The blue line is repeated in the header. So I'd ditch the category links to the right of the logo. - having social networking links at the top of the page seems odd to me. Most of the time when you decide to "share" something, you decide that after you've spent some time reading the content, which typically happens at the end of the main content. I'd ditch the links and only have them on article pages at the bottom of the article/blog entry. Or move them to the bottom of the page.

    Overall, very well designed theme. Excellent work!

    • Matthew Ruddy
      Matthew Ruddy commented:
      Posted: on Aug 30, 2010 at 2:56 AM

      Hi. Thanks for your review. Greatly appreciated. I will consider some of your thoughts & will revise the design.

      As for the category links beneath the slider; these don't like you to archives. Instead clicking each one filters the top 5 posts from that category. The category links to the top right of the logo link to an archive of all the posts in that category.