Please help me to Understand

Hi
My web developer just rebuilt - redesigned my client website and I'm not really happy with the whole thing because My developer and I first wanted a nice clean responsive website, and the owner (my client) want the layout compability. The older website look worse but this new one look so outdated too, I think. Anyone agree with me?
Here is the site http://mandalabrunyisland.com.au/

can anyone expert give me solution or advise and critics whether the website actually look really bad or not too bad ? And what should I do more to make it look better? In term of layout please.

Thank you thank you so much if you could spare time to read and give me the thoughts

 

I think it looks fine!

 

Well, it doesn't look too bad, but your web-dev don't really know jack... there is such amounts of bloat on that page... 6 classes on body, for christ's sake. The menu isn't good either, the fade-in/out is a bit choppy and slow - kudos for having a page that works fine without javascript (although the images doesn't show). It's not a complete disaster, but it's not great either (code-wise). It doesn't look too bad, though.

 

Typical bloated ineptly developed slow loading train wreck of developer ineptitude. Whoever built that has zero business developing websites. From the uselessly inaccessible fixed width layout, uselessly undersized fixed metric fonts, and massive sections of illegible colour contrasts, it reeks of a mix of having an artist under the DELUSION that they are a designer having teamed up with a scripttard who doens't know how to keep it in their pants.

As evidenced by the bat-shit nutters 2.6 megabyte pageload (that balloons up to over 4 megs post-load) spanning 64 files (ballooning up to over 120 files post-load)... to deliver 2.4k of plaintext and not even a dozen content images? DERP... in particular the MASSIVE scripttard bloat of 1.4 megabytes spanning 24 separate files reeks of developer ineptitude of the highest order, only to be matched by the ignorant halfwit nonsense that is the 578k of CSS spanning 14 separate files... All those separate files meaning for many users it takes over a minute for that mess to load.

The HTML of course is the usual scam artist bullshit typical when you encounter the horribly outdated numb-nutz idiocy that is "960 grid' mated to turdpress and jQuery.... hence the endless pointless classes for nothing, endless pointless DIV for nothing, stylesheet <link> being sent to "all", outdated attributes, complete lack of anything remotely resembling semantics, graceful degradation, or accessibility... It's hardly a shock the site is vomiting up 42k of HTML to do anywhere from 8 to 10k's job....

You add in the massive CSS and Scripting bloat, and it quite easily is wasting two megabytes in 40 files to do the job of 128k or less in three files JUST from the coding perspective!

Whoever built that has NO huffing business making websites, and has done nothing more than saddle you folks up and yelled "giddy-up" as they rode you down the path to failure.

Be thankful you're not in the UK or Canada and this isn't for a public utility, government organization, or anything considered 'essential' as you'd be open to fines and even litigation over the failure to meet even the simplest of accessibility minimums.

... which is why if you brought this to me as a client, I'd be suggesting the Old Yeller treatment. Drag it 'round back o' the woodshed, put the shotgun to it's ear, and blow its brains out the other side. You've been scammed.... hard. They ****ed you up the *** harder than titanium alloy, and didn't even have the common courtesy to give you a reach-around.

Seriously, whatever sleazy halfwit dirtbag made that site? I'd toss them in jail and throw away the key on general principle. They do not know enough about websites to be making them, and if they are making sites for other people and claiming to know what they are doing, they are doing nothing more than scamming people who just don't know any better, giving them all the business legitimacy of Amway, Mary Kay, or late night real estate infomercials.

Though to be fair, that describes 90%+ of the halfwits using turdpress, 95% of the mouth-breathers using jQuery, and 99.9999999% of the dumbasses still using grids or the "960 width" asshattery!

... and anyone who ACTUALLY knows how to build websites will tell you the same thing the moment they see code like this:

<html lang="en-US" class="html_boxed fixed_layout av-preloader-disabled av-default-lightbox  html_header_top html_logo_center html_bottom_nav_header html_menu_right html_custom html_header_sticky html_header_shrinking_disabled html_header_topbar_active html_mobile_menu_phone html_disabled html_header_searchicon_disabled html_content_align_center html_header_unstick_top html_header_stretch html_minimal_header html_entry_id_435 av-no-preview ">

Code (markup):

or this:

<link rel='stylesheet' id='beds24-css'  href='http://mandalabrunyisland.com.au/wp-content/plugins/beds24-online-booking/theme-files/beds24.css?ver=4.7.4' type='text/css' media='all' />
<link rel='stylesheet' id='jquery-style-css'  href='https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jqueryui/1.8.2/themes/smoothness/jquery-ui.css?ver=4.7.4' type='text/css' media='all' />
<link rel='stylesheet' id='avia-grid-css'  href='http://mandalabrunyisland.com.au/wp-content/themes/enfold/css/grid.css?ver=2' type='text/css' media='all' />
<link rel='stylesheet' id='avia-base-css'  href='http://mandalabrunyisland.com.au/wp-content/themes/enfold/css/base.css?ver=2' type='text/css' media='all' />
<link rel='stylesheet' id='avia-layout-css'  href='http://mandalabrunyisland.com.au/wp-content/themes/enfold/css/layout.css?ver=2' type='text/css' media='all' />
<link rel='stylesheet' id='avia-scs-css'  href='http://mandalabrunyisland.com.au/wp-content/themes/enfold/css/shortcodes.css?ver=2' type='text/css' media='all' />
<link rel='stylesheet' id='avia-popup-css-css'  href='http://mandalabrunyisland.com.au/wp-content/themes/enfold/js/aviapopup/magnific-popup.css?ver=1' type='text/css' media='screen' />
<link rel='stylesheet' id='avia-media-css'  href='http://mandalabrunyisland.com.au/wp-content/themes/enfold/js/mediaelement/skin-1/mediaelementplayer.css?ver=1' type='text/css' media='screen' />
<link rel='stylesheet' id='avia-print-css'  href='http://mandalabrunyisland.com.au/wp-content/themes/enfold/css/print.css?ver=1' type='text/css' media='print' />
<link rel='stylesheet' id='avia-dynamic-css'  href='http://mandalabrunyisland.com.au/wp-content/uploads/dynamic_avia/enfold.css?ver=590331366b544' type='text/css' media='all' />
<link rel='stylesheet' id='avia-custom-css'  href='http://mandalabrunyisland.com.au/wp-content/themes/enfold/css/custom.css?ver=2' type='text/css' media='all' />

Code (markup):

Or even just this:

<style type='text/css'>

Code (markup):

Pretty much your coder went full Pakled... you never go full Pakled.

 

This is the kind of crap that happens when 'developers' are paid by HOW MANY lines of code they are writing instead of HOW EFFICIENT and HOW CORRECT the code is.

Reminds me of the main-frame coders being paid by the lines of code they wrote. They HAD to bloat their code to justify their pay and their jobs. And, YES, THEY were THIEVES, also, and also should have been jailed and the key tossed away.

Also reminds me of the current state of computing where the coders KEEP REINVENTING the wheel to JUSTIFY keeping their jobs. More thieves that should be locked up forever.

 

Puhleaze, Sarah. Jason's commentaries are always entertaining (unless you're at the pointy end). Let us hope the OP does suck it up and not take personal offense as so many neophytes do.

 

It looks like a typical WP template. I hope you didn't pay too much for putting the old contents into a new template. You could have done it yourself for free.

 

What you now need to do is first make a clear picture of the the issues you have with your site. Other members have pointed some of them quite brilliantly. Then approach your designer/developer to fix these issues. Sorry to say but for a professional site, this is sad.
The site is based on WordPress, so you also have the option to search for a suitable theme for yourself at https://www.wordpress.org/themes

 

Thanks. The content is new delivered from the owner of the property.

 

@sarahk got ya. Thanks

@deathshadow ❤️ For the comments.
I'm reading this on Mother's Day
I'll update you soon when the site fix. Great to hear many comments here, I'll take it seriously
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