Hey DarrenStuart, I just checked out DiyStartupnews.com, and a couple of things come across -

1. Nice layout. Clean, I like the layout and color choice. Nice site URL and catchy phrasing ;-). Very twiterrish... But I am not sure what your intention here is, which brings up point No.2

2. The about page is empty. I can see that the home page pretty much says it all, but then either consider putting everything a user might need on the home page and get rid of the About link, or actually use the about link.

3. If click the "Submit News" link without filling in anything, I get no error, but then nothing happens either. Same with filling out only some of the fields (there's nothing telling me all fields are mandatory, which I am assuming they are)

4. The news story can have 240 characters. Maybe I dont see it, but is the intention here to provide just a gist of what the news is about? You also trim away anything more than 240 characters. This could be misleading because I might be copy pasting thinking that my content is going to show as-is, only to realize that well, it does not. I would rather have validation tell me I crossed the limit, than be surprised after posting.

5. On the other hand, when I got to post a comment, leave all the fields blank, and hit Submit, I get a page with a "Wordpress error" on it.

Just my 2 cents. Good work, hope this helps.

thanks for the feedback,

2. There should be a page there but I just realised that I didn't port that page over from the development site.

3.odd you should get a message box telling you what fields you missed. what browser are you on? also if you have JS off it should just change pages and display a list of missing fields.

4. Sorry yeah this is explained in the missing about us page. I did it because I wanted people to get to the point and make the site viewable in a mobile with no modifying.

5. yeah thats standard wordpress funcationality I will fix it.

There's a CSS bug on the comments page as shown: http://apgwoz.com/images/diy-firefox-2-mac.png (ff 2 on mac)

ta on it.

I am on FF 2 on Windows... I have JS enabled and did not get the pop-up (Tried it again...)

Just saw the About page, and yup, that does it for No. 2.

It'd probably be helpful if it worked _without_ javascript too.

it does. I made sure of it.

thanks, I'll test it on FF 2 on windows. I need to add a IE stylesheet so I shall do some windows testing.

ok this is odd, it works for me on windows using ff 2.

All I am doing is validating the form and returning true or false to submit the form.

Ok I have the about page working http://diystartupnews.com/about/

That header font is dead ugly. Kinda reminds me of Comic Sans-ish or something.

I am glad you got that, its meant to be that way for the DIY feel.

The font turned me off right away. Using a simple hand written font might look better and still get the point across. Also, the red on mint isn't so appealing. Maybe a graphite on mint, with darker green links for accent?

Ok I have changed the colours now. I am not sure about the font at the moment.

I like those colors better. Can you make the logo link back to the homepage too? I've clicked on it at least 3 times thinking it should..

sure I was being lazy :p

yeah good point, red on green should never be seen :p

I have swapped out the red with a dark grey.

I have a look at some other fonts. I think I have one that might work.