My new website - feedback/advice appreciated

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For a while I've been thinking about creating a website. A website which allows me to talk about different teaching strategies for fellow teachers to read and try in their own lessons. So this week I took the plunge and purchased some hosting and a domain and started to get to grips with wordpress (never used it before).

I don't really want to advertise the site properly until i'm happy with it, so I figured i'd ask for feedback from people on here. I'd appreciate it if you'd have a quick look and see if there's anything on there you might change (design, content, layout... anything).

www.learnalesson.co.uk

Ta!
 
Anyone? :) I appreciate there's not that much there yet (i'm going for the minimalist approach ;)) but I would appreciate feedback before I start advertising the site properly.
 
You think? I've re-introduced the sidebar to add extra width. At the moment it's set to display the most recent comments (chucked a few dummy comments in :p) but this may change. Better you think? or back to how it was previously?
 
child themes of twentyeleven are always a good place to start...content, content and more content. use the sidebar for something, just don't overdo it.

bit dark for me, but there you go! (theme that is, not content...)
 
Cheers. You're not the first person to say that. With that in mind I've revamped the colour scheme to be mainly white as opposed to black. Think it looks better now?
 
like it better - remember if it is going to be printed out it will be much better now.
Right, that's better, now I feel the header is too large....and the nav bar background a bit dark, but it's looking better!
 
looks good, but for me that search box is too high :D I know it;s only a few pixels, but it's be more aesthetically pleasing if it were aligned equally in the black border.
 
Yeh i noticed that myself earlier, will look into it. I was considering ditching the search bar to be honest and maybe popping it in the footer, but we'll see.
 
Now in the process of fiddling with the few bits mentioned. Managed to shrink the header size, I agree it probably looks a bit better now :)
 
Right. Changes made as follows:

-Smaller header image as mentioned above
-Changed menu bar colour from practically black to a dark grey which matches other content
-Slightly smaller font in menu bar - which has resulted in the search bar being almost centered in the menu ;)
-When you click on an individual post, I've added a plugin that prints the page in a a printer-friendly view, link at the end of each post

Thoughts now?
 
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