Hey folks, My goal as a freelance videographer is to represent myself and invite future customers to watch my demo reel and get in touch with me. I build the whole website from scratch by myself. This took me a lot of effort, time and energy. The CMS is Wordpress/ Elementor. Link: https://mediacolonia.rf.gd (the TLD is because of the free hoster I’m using. I will migrate the whole project as fast as possible. Beware: The content is in german language) I think the direction is not that bad. Still a lot to improve/bad logo, missing pictures ect.. But all in all to me the design feels poor, without a structure or guidance. I would love to point me out a direction, some useful inspiration how to finalize it. How to improve the overall experience. I welcome constructive critisicm, as I am not a professional designer , but love to dig in to these kinds of projects by myself. Please dont be to harsh with me, this is my very first attempt of building a whole website by myself. Thanks for your attention and your energy <3
The menu on the top panel is too cumbersome, it interferes with viewing the site. You provide not just any service, but photo and video services, so in this case, the visual component is very important. I don't like your colors - I can't associate them with a video studio. I would recommend that you choose a nice theme for a photo and video studio and try to set up the original design, rather than trying to create something of your own.
Thanks for you feedback! True, the panel is not really appealing. I will do something about it. And yes, youre absolutely right, I need to present lot more visual content about my work. Will do that! The colors were a hard decision. I thought a lot about keeping it "classy", but the more I work on it, the more I liked it! I thought about choosing a theme, but there are so many I couldnt decide which to choose and in the end, I liked the Idea, to have something, yeah maybe bit cumbersome, but in a way more accessible, more friendly that a lot of these stereotype themes.