Revamped my site

Hello,

I'm a web designer idcreate.co.uk and recently revamped by own website.
Please have a look and let me know what you think.

Thanks for the feedback

 

Overall it's looking really good.

If I could suggest something it would be this: your home page needs to brag more about your portfolio. Instead of having those two dull images in the slider, put some of the images from your portfolio there on both slides. Maybe even make three slides. Seriously, that slider takes a lot of space there, but renders your index page inefficient.

 

thanks for your feedback

 

Slider = pointless. I would bounce from your site immediately. I want to know why I should hire YOU immediately. However, I don't see that but instead a bunch of meaningless garbage. Drop down navigation (albeit one) - why? It might look fancy, but it doesn't make for a good user experience. You are creating a site for people to look, navigate and decide if they want to hire you, not to impress other designers.

Why are the contact details down at the bottom?!? These should be prominent, at the top (or close to it). Along with links to social media profiles.

What I want to see is why I should hire you, why you're the best, what your customers think (and visit their sites), and how to contact you plus look you up on social media. SM if very important - I should hopefully there find engagement with potential/actual customers and see what your Customer Service is like first-hand.

Oh, and I saw your special offer was close to the bottom of the page - that kind of thing can be eye catching and make someone look further, so you want it immediately visible (but not to take up the entire screen) when someone lands. How it is (a stripe across the screen) seems to work well, just not the right location. Make more of the words into links, such as latest offer - link to a page you always update with details of your latest offers. Select a few others, too, and link to the offer and/or other parts of the website that are relevant to the offer.

So, forget about impressing other designers and think about attracting your (potential) customers.

All the best!

 

The problem I have with sliders* is more often than not they aren't used to put extra content on the page, but instead take up valuable screen real estate with very little content and fancy pictures (gimmicky). The part of the screen they typically located in is the main content area within immediate eye view without anything eye-catching/important (with that stuff usually being stuffed below).

*My comment was more about sliders in general than the op's specifically.

Also, on tablets and smartphones (both are a way a lot of people are accessing information now, so usability on these as well as laptops/PCs/Macs/whatever is very important), I usually find a lot of the sliders are slow and/or don't work properly. I think it was answers.com that, until recently, had a slider for its answers, which was very slow on tablets/smartphones, but even on laptops/desktops it was an annoying way to access information (especially as it was sometimes one short sentence per slide).

I would agree with you regarding the fuzzy images. I felt like my eyes were broken. This only works well if you have something within the image in focus to take attention, but there is not. (@m112: Ask a photographer about it, if you know one, or read up on bokeh.)

 

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It's good but the offsite link building needs some more work. You currently have your money keyword over optimized off site. The anchor backlink profile should be 2% for each money keyword. Right now it's too high. You need more generic anchor, more brand variations, naked url and such. It's good onsite though.

 

Thanks Ryan_UK, Sarahk and SmartLink Solutions for constructive feedback.

 

I am able to assess this site as photographer from the advertising, marketing view point.

Your website if visually appealing, fresh and crisp.

However there are some drawbacks:

1. Header image of Forth Bridge does not good very well, if you are based in Edinburgh, why did you include picture of that bridge? picture of yourself with a smile would be much better.

a) The main problem is text on this picture, it is not positioned well. and white font does not work there, to overcome this problem you can change transparency of this picture.
The same problem with second picture.

b) Slider between these two images is not necessary at all. it confuses the viewer.

2. Title of the website is totally different than logo, i do not see any consistency here.
I suggest changing the title to IDcreate |Eye-catching Web Design in Edinburgh - Low Prices
Term "Low Prices" is not encouraging for your potential clients, but it also depends on your target audience.

3. Contact details at the page bottom are easy to skip and why did you keep your flickr photos there. In my opinion, this is not relevant to your business.

4. Portfolio, there is one portfolio example "Alba St Andrews" with a bad image quality, and it keeps an eye attention. Please do correct this.

5. This wording: "Don't waste your time. You're one email away from a high Google ranking position" from get in touch and SEO tabs. I have feeling that someone is pushing me to buy and make me hurry and this is not a good feeling indeed.

Generally, your website is well made with some small problems easy to correct.

Good luck!

 

thanks for your feedback.

I'm looking into changing the main picture.

 

Without reading any of the above:

Waste of space slider, does nothing, adds nothing, wastes bandwidth and a massive amount of space above the fold.

You talk about yourself way too much. Everything's me, me, me, me, me. Why would I give a monkey's buttock who you are or where you're from? I want to know what you can do for ME, for my business, not whether you're a native Martian with three left feet. I want to see client logos, portfolio images and what I get for my money, the reasons to hire you and what I can expect - in other words, the stuff that you've hidden way down near the bottom.

On top of that, I don't care about your opinion or justifications. Example: "When I browse the Internet I would like to know prices for the services that I look for". So what? Just tell me the prices. Example: "Each web design project is different this is why it so hard to give an exact estimate without your requirements". Ignoring the grammar errors, don't justify yourself. You do not need to excuse yourself: state your average price range, tell people to contact you for a precise quote based on their requirements and leave it at that.

And I disagree with your statement that you believe in building "simple, clean, user friendly and unique websites", since yours has artsy-fartsy stuff like that massive slider and the wobbly testimonials thing.

And why do you have Flickr pictures in the footer? Are you a designer or an amateur photographer? Stay focussed.

I also found the text to be too small and uncomfortable to read, since it's full width.

All in all, I think you need to redo all your text. Get the errors out, make it more confident and get rid of all that narcissism. Focus on the client, not yourself.

Hope it helps.

 

I like the overall design and colors but I agree, not a big fan of sliders.