I have created my first website and I am asking for your feedbacks

It's a great first start but here's a few pointers:

- You definitely need to get a professional designer for the header/logo, it makes ALL the difference to your clients. The current header has an "MS Paint" feel, it looks very unprofessional.
- Get a logo designed that's simple and works well in both colour and greyscale.
- Loose the drop shadow on the sub header.
- Get a top level domain, weebly looks very unprofessional.

There's lots of other little things that can be improved, but you will learn them along the way. Apart from that it's a very good start for a first website, it's relatively clean and simple which is always good.

Without a doubt the number one thing which will improve your design skills is learning some colour theory.
After you're comfortable with basic colour theory learn typography, the rest will come naturally.
Keep up the hard work, good luck

Edit: Sorry, I hate to knit-pick, but you should proof read your copy. I've only checked the copy on one page but... for example, this doesn't make sense:

"Adding colour into a black & white photograph is an introduce of new dimension into it so our visual perception significantly widen and we can see much more details. Photo colouring is an real art and it requires a lot of knowledge and skills of assigning appropriate colour for each element of the photo."

Also, be careful not to mix British and American spelling, colourization should be colourisation.

 

As others have stated, a logo would be a needed addition. That being said, I think the site is fine. It's easy to navigate. It's easy to know what you're offering. The wording is very legible. Honestly, I would not play with the site too much more and start driving some attention to it. Spending time worrying about the colors, the layout ... is, at this point, not going to help someone to find you. Your customers are there to know that you'll do a great job of restoring their pictures.

 

That's what I was referring to haha. I was a bit... peeved by the strange grammar/spelling.

 

Thank you for your valuable comment.
I am definitely going to redesign the whole header with logo. This logo has been designed just using simple graphic editor on weebly. I will probably use Photoshop, Fireworks or Illustrator to create professional logo.
You said to loose the shadow on subheadings. You meant on headings of every page. You think it looks unprofessional?
I will leave this website on weebly but I am working on new version of the same website but I will create it from scratch writing html, css and Javascript codes and then I will register my domain for it.
I have problems with matching colours and I have some good websites for doing it but I still don't know how to do it properly.
I know nothing about typography. I know only which fonts are recommended for which text type.
These sentences "Adding colour into a black & white photograph is an introduce of new dimension into it so our visual perception significantly widen and we can see much more details. Photo colouring is an real art and it requires a lot of knowledge and skills of assigning appropriate colour for each element of the photo."
I don't really know what you mean wrong is there. I understand those sentences very well. Maybe they have grammar mistakes.
I have not spotted that mixed spelling in the word "colourization" because I copied that word from another website where those tutorials have been taken. So those people on that website had to make that mistake.

 

You mean all comments here? Thank you for your comment anyway.

 

not a bad start. for the first site, i would say it is a job well done.

 

Thank you for your nice comment. Doing this website on weebly has definitely helped me to create it much easier but I must get away from weebly due to lack of flexibility in designing, especially for SEO purpose.

 

I have changed the header of my website a little bit and I hope it looks better now.

 

I would rather see something closer to this... I didn't spend much time on it, but it gives you a general idea of what would look better

 

Thank you for your help and comment but I don't see it as a good idea. I think logo graphic should say what website is about.

 

Why you dont purchase domain and make your website based on Wordpress?
Your site is good but you can make it better with real domain and wordpress

 

Thank you for your valuable comment. I appreciate it very much. I am going to order my own domain for another website I am going to create soon. I will leave this site as it is I am working on new website which I am building from scratch just by writing html and css codes. I will have full control over new website because I don't know really know how clean is html code at my weebly site. In such a way I am not able to design the website optimised for SEO purpose.

 

Why do you think my website would be better with Wordpress? I know nothing about it. Maybe I google it and I will get some information about it.

 

Hello, and congratulations on a first site well DONE!
Often the most difficult step to make is the first one.
Well done !!
Now obviously, you will never be "perfect" on your first try,
so don't worry about the little annoyances which you will correct
on your way.

I agree with the comment that, if you are really serious about making this into a business,
free services such as weebly is not the best.
But it is OK as a first step to get you going.

Many IM people use WordPress as their site's engine.
It has some great themes, so that will improve your site's visuals a lot.
If you know html and css, you might decide to code your site manually also.
Just as good. But get visual inspiration from some of those awesome WP themes.
So browse the themeforest.net for that visual inspiration...

As mentionned previously, you will also need a domain name and a few other
services. Just the cost of doing business on the inpernet in a professional manner.
If you choose to try the WordPress path, well the WP software comes Free
and will help you tremendously if you know PHP
(great for debugging your added plugins ... it could happen)

So the WP path looks free, but it's not exactly.
A more realistic view of the actual costs of a "professional" setup
look something like this (see image below):



This is a basic setup. (I hope I did not miss anything...)
If your needs increase over time, you might need to upgrade some of those,
so your monthly price will go up a bit ...
(for example, your service is too popular and reached the limits of your aweber account)

If you do not want to go the WordPress route
(not a big fan of WP myself, but is "good enough" until something better comes along),
you might want to check out a new service called Squizmore.com which automates
some of this setup for you - so you don't need to assemble all these services manually
all by yourself, and will save you a few bucks (and probably a few headaches)
in the process.
Some similar all-in-one services do something similar, with more or less success.
SiteSales.com is another such service I've heard about.
FusionHQ is another. So maybe have a look in this direction...

So as you see, putting your site "on the Internet" is just a first step.
To make that into a real business which grings you clients and revenue,
you need a little more investment. But don't let this discourage you,
that's just how things are, and everyone who is successful on the Net uses these
services (or equivalent)

Hope this was helpful...

 

Thank you for so nice and valuable comment with a lot of information and advice. I appreciate it so much. I willl try WordPress after so good recommendation.

 

glad to be of help!!

Not a big WP fan myself, but that seems to be the favorite tool around IM.
If I recall my own experience (long long time ago),
installing in on my box was a bit tricky because I had some database issue,
but solved it eventually.
If you use an external host, most have a tool called Sympatico (or something like that,
sorry, I don't use the thing myself), but that installs WP for you automagically,
so it's a painless experience for you. If you don't have that tool,
it's a bit more tricky, but in such cases "google is your friend"

Good luck!!

 

If you provide any kind of services, you should not use free hosting. My opinion

 

Thank you for your comment. Yes, I can agree with you that I should use the independent domain for my website. Whether it is free or not it is not so important. But they are always paid anyway. Hosting is not so important where it is. Important if it works properly.

 

As a starter it is good, but requires lot's of improvement. Of course logo requires some attention.

In coding Use divs instead of table.

Thanks

 

Thank you for your nice comment. I appreciate it very much. I know my website needs a lot of improvements and I still do it if I find idea for doing it. As I have mentioned before I am not able to control fully over my website's code because it is made in weebly. I know I should use div instead of table. I would never use for pages layout. That was reason to work on my another website which is created from scratch with editing html and css code.