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Looking for honest feedback

Discussion in 'Websites' started by nufftalon, Aug 28, 2018.

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    I was looking for honest feedback on my website. I seem to always know what to do when it comes to my clients, but for my own web design site I am a bit dumbfounded. Does anyone have any tips for good placement of cta and what the main page should focus on to get people to convert and at least use the contact form? In general feel free to review my site I am all ears. I need people to contact me for work. The work I get now is mostly from cold messaging on facebook, or referral from friends.

    http://gamediasolutions.com
     
    nufftalon, Aug 28, 2018 IP
  2. sarahk

    sarahk iTamer Staff

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    The colours don't work for me - just a bit too flat? and the images are slow to load but your content looks good and your client portfolio is great. Under the hood I'd expect to see best practice and enqueuing the extra scripts/styles but that would pass most/all customers by.

    Get your Google Places set up to recognise your office - this looks like a postal service which then makes me wonder where in the world you really are.
    Your big list of email addresses doesn't tally with your one person "about us".

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    sarahk, Aug 29, 2018 IP
  3. nufftalon

    nufftalon Peon

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    Thanks for the feedback! I will work on optimizing the images. I had too many different grays before color wise, so I made it white to be more welcoming to potential clients (I will look into creating a different color scheme though.). As for the google business listing I will have to see if I can get a photo up for that. I could probably add more staff photos under about us. It me, my wife, and a few others right now but I could get rid of a lot of the emails I didn't even realize that. Design wise I was thinking of adding a top image on homepage of the office and have the text tag line on top of that to break up the top a bit more.

    I wanted to add a bit more to the front in terms of my services a row of each at a glance starting with what I am best at. I would say initially what i am great at is creating e-commerce websites. I enjoy making sites but being an artist my self I love to create artist websites like that creative-beast.com one and the miketartworks.com I manage email design and campaign launch for a handful of clients as well. I also write content for social media for clients.
     
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    nufftalon, Aug 29, 2018 IP
  4. deathshadow

    deathshadow Acclaimed Member

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    I'm ok with the high contrast black and white, though you might want to bump the phone number brighter since it's far below accessibility minimums. I don't know if you check for that, but you really should use a tool like this one:

    https://webaim.org/resources/contrastchecker/

    To be certain you don't use colour combinations that are illegible.

    Some adjustment of the vertical alignment/padding in the header area might help it look more professional -- there's clearly more space under the menu than over, and that just doesn't look right as a result.

    One thing I usually check for is keyboard navigation and other non-visual queue's, and really your page falls flat there. The docuemnt outline is missing heading levels, filled with not so helpful information, and generally reeks of not having used H1..H6 properly/grammatically and/or try to rely on the (idiotic pointlessly redundant) HTML 5 "section" tag improperly.

    It did seem to take longer to load than it should have, much of that could be handshaking thanks to the 56 separate files... but with 14 of those files being separate CSS "for nothing" you might want to reign things in a bit.

    The markup is, well, there's no polite way to put this. It's a bloated wreck -- though ENTIRELY what I've come to expect when the train wreck of developer ineptitude that is turdpress ends up having endless plugins/extensions slopped atop it. It's 64k of code for 1.53k of plaintext and not even a dozen content images -- that's EASILY anywhere from 8 to ten times the code needed to do the job.

    Said code having all the failings so common to turdpress development -- <style> in the body (where it's invalid), static style and scripting in the markup (where they have no business being), endless pointless div for nothing, endless pointless classes for nothing...

    I mean any competent developer should RECOIL IN HORROR when they see code like this:

    
<body class="home page page-id-7 page-template page-template-100-width page-template-100-width-php fusion-body no-tablet-sticky-header no-mobile-sticky-header no-mobile-slidingbar no-mobile-totop mobile-logo-pos-left layout-wide-mode menu-text-align-center mobile-menu-design-modern fusion-image-hovers fusion-show-pagination-text">
				<div id="wrapper" class="">
		<div id="home" style="position:relative;top:1px;"></div>
				
		
			<div class="fusion-header-wrapper">
				<div class="fusion-header-v1 fusion-logo-left fusion-sticky-menu- fusion-sticky-logo- fusion-mobile-logo-1 fusion-mobile-menu-design-modern ">
					<div class="fusion-header-sticky-height"></div>
<div class="fusion-header">
	<div class="fusion-row">
		<div class="fusion-logo" data-margin-top="11px" data-margin-bottom="11px" data-margin-left="0px" data-margin-right="0px">
				<a class="fusion-logo-link" href="http://gamediasolutions.com">
						<img src="//gamediasolutions.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/GA-Media-Logo.png" width="120" height="98" alt="GA Media &#8211; Web Design in New Jersey" class="fusion-logo-1x fusion-standard-logo" />

															<img src="//gamediasolutions.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/GA-Media-Logo-1.png" width="120" height="98" alt="GA Media &#8211; Web Design in New Jersey" style="max-height: 98px; height: auto;" class="fusion-standard-logo fusion-logo-2x" />
			
			<!-- mobile logo -->
											<img src="//gamediasolutions.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/GA-Media-Web-Logo.png" width="359" height="126" alt="GA Media &#8211; Web Design in New Jersey" class="fusion-logo-1x fusion-mobile-logo-1x" />

														<img src="//gamediasolutions.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/GA-Media-Logo-1.png" width="359" height="126" alt="GA Media &#8211; Web Design in New Jersey" style="max-height: 126px; height: auto;" class="fusion-logo-2x fusion-mobile-logo-2x" />
							
			<!-- sticky header logo -->
					</a>
		</div>
    Code (markup):
    Doing the job of this:

    
<body>

<div id="top"><div class="widthWrapper">
	<h1><a href="/">GA<span>MEDIA</a></h1>
    Code (markup):
    The entire page is filled with those types of woes, from that bloated ubermenu nonsense where all the links are now a run-on sentence, etc, etc.

    Made all the scarier by the ~30k of so of scripting in the markup and 1.2 megabytes of external scripts on a page that by all rights I don't see anything done that warrants the PRESENCE of JavaScript.

    But that's why I don't advocate off the shelf systems like turdpress, the only thing you can learn from them is how NOT to code a website.
     
    deathshadow, Sep 4, 2018 IP