Can someone please give me some tips to improve my website?

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Hello,

I am a extremely young person entering the web design and development, seo and social media marketing markets.

I am very motivated and interested in this line of business and i am looking to grow quickly.

My website is www.webodesigns.com.au

Could you please provide me with some feedback?

Thanks
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  • Profile picture of the author Jezzi
    Pretty good, but my first sight was on site logo that is too primitive, sorry(
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  • Profile picture of the author my perusal
    The layout is awful. It's a mishmash of information cobbled together on a page with no proper structure. There are also grammatical errors throughout the site.

    If you cant develop a site that's innovative and eye-appealing for yourself, how can you possibly expect to attract customers to use your web design and development services. Remember, first impressions count!

    As for tips, you'll get plenty of differing opinions on here, many from people with absolutely no design skills or experience themselves. My best suggestion would be to Google search and browse websites of successful, high profile services in this field and pick up some ideas from their own sites and the sample sites they point to that they've developed. They're not successful for nothing. Good luck.
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    • Profile picture of the author webodesigns
      Hello,

      Thanks for the feedback.

      In what part do you mean the layout is awful? I thought my site was actually very user friendly and easy to navigate.
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  • Profile picture of the author DeadRooster
    I think you site looks very professional and convincing. Hopefully, you can deliver the service behind it. If that's the case, good job!

    P.S. I think you're logo is fine.
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    • Profile picture of the author webodesigns
      Originally Posted by DeadRooster View Post

      I think you site looks very professional and convincing. Hopefully, you can deliver the service behind it. If that's the case, good job!

      P.S. I think you're logo is fine.
      Thanks for your feedback. I see you have a lot of experience
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  • Profile picture of the author munir ahmed
    hi,
    As for my personal opinion as
    not so techy guy, its too
    complicated for me...

    the best website i believe is to
    keep it simple as their is so
    much going on my friend...

    i not really understood the
    webpage as it looks so kool
    that i was confused in hat i
    should do,

    i call it a website overload
    and theirs no call to action
    telling me what i should really
    do...

    as a web owner what is a
    purpose of the web if you
    can not convert to leads
    as i couldn't see a clear
    optin until i scrolled right
    to the footer,

    a great looking website just
    would confuse many and i
    would rather have a simple
    page website that shows me
    clear what to do...

    Hope that was clear for me
    explaining my view on it...

    > K.I.S.S

    -KEEP
    -IT
    -SUPER
    -SIMPLE

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  • Profile picture of the author topcoder
    I like it, my only suggestion will be to make the fonts on your contact us form where it says "enter your name" grey and thinner.
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  • Profile picture of the author Jason Kanigan
    Straighten out the flow of your design. As a new visitor, I get confused about where my eye is supposed to go and what I'm supposed to concentrate on.

    Who is your target market? Let them know they're in the right place immediately.

    Work on your (two?) headlines...the major USP or benefits of working with you. They're bland right now: the same thing any SEO agency would say. Why should I pick you?

    Choose a consistent color scheme. Right now it looks like Mr. Rogers Neighborhood with all these colors.

    Add some text above the examples in your Projects area. At first glance I thought they were Adsense ads. Connect the dots for your reader--don't expect them to.

    When I hovered over Services, and the popup menu came up, I was far more impressed with what I saw in that than the rest of the site.

    I know "Request a free quote"..."Free SEO Analysis" buttons and links appear several times. However, these never stood out for me and I was not encouraged to take action. Work on your Calls To Action.

    I don't hate it, but it has a lot of room for improvement.
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    • Profile picture of the author webodesigns
      Originally Posted by Jason Kanigan View Post

      Straighten out the flow of your design. As a new visitor, I get confused about where my eye is supposed to go and what I'm supposed to concentrate on.

      Who is your target market? Let them know they're in the right place immediately.

      Work on your (two?) headlines...the major USP or benefits of working with you. They're bland right now: the same thing any SEO agency would say. Why should I pick you?

      Choose a consistent color scheme. Right now it looks like Mr. Rogers Neighborhood with all these colors.

      Add some text above the examples in your Projects area. At first glance I thought they were Adsense ads. Connect the dots for your reader--don't expect them to.

      When I hovered over Services, and the popup menu came up, I was far more impressed with what I saw in that than the rest of the site.

      I know "Request a free quote"..."Free SEO Analysis" buttons and links appear several times. However, these never stood out for me and I was not encouraged to take action. Work on your Calls To Action.

      I don't hate it, but it has a lot of room for improvement.
      Hello,

      Thanks very much for your valued feedback

      I appreciate it greatly.

      Julian
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  • Profile picture of the author sliveroctopus
    huh, that was weird. I checked out your website. Here is what I think. Get rid of the top navigation bar. Move the google up pitch to right under your main carousal. The testimonial, does not connect because it say owner, get rid of it. Your past projects do not tell me why I should buy. Have it say, hey look at past project. When the user clicks on it, have it open a pop-up window that captures the users email.
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  • Profile picture of the author Lokki08
    Here's my opinion about your website:

    The site looks good but there are at least few things that you should change or make changes to and those are logo and the amount of content.

    Logo: this looks very basic, like somebody has just painted and stuck on the wall without any professional look. I would highly recommend redesigning the logo again and get rid of that black background if you use white one. Just by using black background to differenciate from white background is not good practice.

    The content: It looks like it has stuffed as much as possible and there's "no space to breath" feel. So I highly recommend reducing amount of the content on main page and also make it consistent. Layout should have consistent margins as well.
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  • Profile picture of the author ydsimple
    I like your site and your logo, looks simple, easy to navigate and at the same time serious and professional one. Cool that you provide free service that is really good way to build relationship with future customers and build up leads.
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  • Profile picture of the author Casper Hanson
    Its looks pretty good actually and I think the logo is fine too
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  • Profile picture of the author Gustavo Woltmann
    It looks professional just the logo you should do in a vector shape. What this does? If you make your logo bigger it stays the same quality lets say if someone clicks on it.
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  • Profile picture of the author iatta636
    Its pretty good. I would suggest you to go for WordPress as it is your early phase of learning. Its strong plugins will facilitate you to learn SEO and effectively promote your offers.
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  • Profile picture of the author ArianaW92
    I wonder if we're all seeing the same page, because to me, it looks very nice. Two complaints, though. First, it was very slow to load. Second, the red is a bit jarring to the eyes. Other than that, it looks professional and well-designed.
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  • Profile picture of the author webodesigns
    Thanks for all your feedback
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    • Profile picture of the author iatta636
      you welcome.
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    • Profile picture of the author serryjw
      I think it is a pretty good first step. Too many colors is my biggest objection...AND Your Contact form is too small. It would be nice to KNOW the company's ( prospect) name before you contact them. It gives you an opportunity to do some homework on what they currently have...AND I thought it was so bizarre you told me your only accepting the contact form between 9-5 ( I know you diidn't mean it) but...NO TIME ZONE
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  • Profile picture of the author iatta636
    Hi, you must specify which area do you need to improve? traffic, seo, content, earning etc etc.
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  • Profile picture of the author richardZ
    Your website is absolutely fine. But still if you want to test your website for whether it is ok or not for SEO then test your website through this tool https://gtmetrix.com
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  • Profile picture of the author +newportone
    I think the site looks good. I would add some sort of related video on the landing page
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    • Profile picture of the author MRakkar
      Overall I think the site looks good but I would try to simplify it just a little. What are you selling, why, how. Try to trade out some of the text to infographics. People like to know what it is at first glance. Good luck with your venture!
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  • Profile picture of the author RanjanaVerma
    Simple clean and professional WordPress website
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  • Profile picture of the author itsweb
    Form the overall look into your website, it was a good experience for me. What I found to be more clumsy is the putting up more content. A user usually tries to give less focus on reading the complete content. So if you make your content update with short data and make the font look more professional shall help you more.
    Also provide information about your clients.
    Make use of infographics to bring a clear understanding of your goals and services..
    ALL THE BEST!!
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    • Profile picture of the author iatta636
      Hi dear, I also strongly recommend WordPress for you but if you really at the very first step, then a blog on blogger.com could also be a good option for you.

      Thank you
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  • Profile picture of the author saurabhthakur12
    A good design, Great work you can do on it. I think your website is weak for SEO purpose so focus on site's on-page work. You can promote your website & get natural backlinks. It will help you to your website easily rank on search engines.
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  • Change the theme of your website and make it more attractive. Post unique content and pictures should be of clear and high quality. Then after that you can think of SEO. Also your ad sense areas are awful. Put ads on empty places where there are more chances of getting people.
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  • Profile picture of the author Farhadreza
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  • Profile picture of the author Zafartech
    Your Website looks good..but you need to improve footer section.
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  • Profile picture of the author SCrafted
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    Sorry but somebody who knows about wordpress themes would recognize immediately that this is just the WPSEO theme bought on themeforest. You only changed colors and couple of more things. Won't work especially if you are trying to sell website design... You need to make a lot of changes in my opinion...
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  • I think a little division between topics is needed because the current site looks like a mix of information. By providing a division for the content, people visiting can then tell what specific info the site is presenting to them. I hope this simple advice helps.
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  • Profile picture of the author Nico Puegher
    Your site isn't bad, but I see too much information with no too much space between them.

    The home should be super simple and clean, where a new user can identify what's your business all about without doing any scroll.

    You need more space and less stuff, make it more simple! You can add read more buttons to lead people to the full content.

    You said "extremely young person", you can do everything you sell? I mean some of the things you sell are pretty hard and you need a lot of experience.
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  • Profile picture of the author monturk96
    Despite what the naysayers might say, I think your website and logo looks absolutely fine. Take your fellow aussie, Mat Carpenter, as an example.

    In case you wondering who he is, he is the guy who started the ship your enemies glitter frenzy and sold that website for a 5-figure sum on Flippa.

    And his SEO biz website theaussieseo.com is pretty simple and uses a template bought off themeforest.

    P.S It may help if you update the about page with pictures of yourself and your team. Just my two cents.
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  • Profile picture of the author Hunter MI
    3 quick things you can do I think...

    1. Either drop the form in the footer on the right, or add a header to it. Right now I have no idea what that form is for, and really just comes across as wasted space.

    2. The images on your blog listing should link through to your post on click. They should not be a pop-up lightbox image.

    3. I'd change the color of the contact us side cta, if you really want people to click on your red quote buttons and analysis buttons I think changing the contact us button to a muted grey might help.

    Number 2 is something that I strongly believe needs to be fixed. Number 1 you do as you please, but I'd be surprised if anyone has filled out that form. Number 3 is just a suggestion based on what your goal is.

    As far as other comments...

    Logo is fine.

    Columns splits on information may be too much at times, when it doesn't seem to be necessary. For example, the about page underneath the quote has a 2 column split that doesn't seem necessary and can come across as confusing. In those situations I think you'd be better for making it a narrower 1 column.

    Also the homepage with the 3 column split with the icons could use an H2, it might look odd though. I assume they are your services, but if it's related to "Build your presence online" I'd consider ditching the border on the top.
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  • Profile picture of the author awilfred
    Pretty good , but the layout is too terrible part should lead to difficult to see
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  • Profile picture of the author Unicom19
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    This is the WPSEO theme right?
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  • Profile picture of the author asdqwezxc1
    Your website is fine, however keep it cleaner.

    Too much text, minimalist is the way to go.
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  • Profile picture of the author devdojo
    Definitely a cleaner logo. Here you go you can use this: View image: logo
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  • Profile picture of the author seanalexm
    Your site looks pretty amazing. It's so classy.
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  • Profile picture of the author christinehopkin
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  • Here is my opinion on your site WEBO Designs | Web Design Perth, SEO Perth, Graphic Design Perth

    -> This website's design and color looks very good.

    -> Its navigation is working properly with and fixed even after page scroll and drop down active that is awesome.

    -> But after clicking on every link whole website is being loaded.

    -> Few page were showing 404 error in mobile view. You need to review it.

    -> Google map should show marked place in mobile view as well but it showing after scroll. Please have a look.

    -> In comparison of "Milestones" spaces have been compressed in "SUBSCRIBE TO OUR BLOG!".

    -> After successful subscription a pop up is opening but it is not hiding automatically after few second, it is not hiding even after clicking outside of it. It is hiding only after page load. I believe it should not take much time.

    Hope that helps!!
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