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How bad is my website design?

by Stickers
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Hello,
- This is my (first) website Indoorweedgrowers(dot)com what stands out as bad please?

- Also, ideas on how to link to a wish list without using a widget or using my own account name in the title? Cutting the shopping list down to one link I think would stop my bounce rate being 100% . . . Yeah, 100%.

If you have a moment I'd appreciate it.

Matthew

(It is an amazon affiliate website built on a wordpress responsive theme. Amazon links shortened and are nofollow)
#affiliate #amazon #bad #design #website
  • Profile picture of the author Yvon Boulianne
    put lot of nice picture, that will change everything
    In the design (nice banner, more color)
    in the post/page
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  • Profile picture of the author bymarcot
    It`s really really bad. No design - no trust. You have huge images which take a lot of time to load. No good call-to-actions to the visitors to click. Get some magazine theme and you gonna have a nice looking website.

    Cheers
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  • Profile picture of the author copilu0
    Look for a better theme. I think you can improve everything by changing your homepage and this can be easily done by changing your theme. Search for a theme where you can have some widgets on your homepage and also some excerpts for the posts (make a google search and you'll get a lot of good results). Read more about wordpress and all the functionalities that you can add and then start to improve your site.
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    • Profile picture of the author Stickers
      Thank you.

      I will change background, re-size photos and look into magazine themes(suggestions for responsive magazine themes?)

      - Incidentally the theme has widgets and call to action but I removed them . . . as I thought they cluttered up the page:-)
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      • Profile picture of the author wiredtolive
        Originally Posted by Stickers View Post

        Thank you.

        I will change background, re-size photos and look into magazine themes(suggestions for responsive magazine themes?)

        - Incidentally the theme has widgets and call to action but I removed them . . . as I thought they cluttered up the page:-)
        You really do need some widgets and call to actions. The content is good, keep that up. Don't want to get to "ady" with it, having a good mix of content will engage your visitors and proper placements of widgets and call to actions will drive their impulsive natures to click and go where you want them to go. Without appearing "too ady". Go with smaller images, for the simple reason they are faster to load. And, they will balance out your site better. Also, with more smaller images you can do some killer seo with alt tags, etc. Add a few videos too. You're getting there.

        Best of luck with the site!
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  • Profile picture of the author TonyG23
    I would recommend putting a buy amazon button so people know they are buying your tent's from amazon. People trust amazon and will more likely click your links if there amazon buy buttons.
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  • Profile picture of the author Bemmax50
    For all practical purpose, it looks good. I personally liked it. Not much to change.
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  • Profile picture of the author Dennis Millbrath
    This site loaded really slow for me, which is bad for such a plain looking site. I also do not like how the menu goes down into a second row. You should figure out how to get that into one row, maybe put the contact link up above.
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  • Profile picture of the author StepOneSites
    ^^What they said^^ No design, Poor Menu Structure, Top Nav takes two lines

    IMO - scrap the theme and the site structure.

    Get a good wooCommerce enabled theme and create your own product catalog. With wooCommerce you can pull the Amazon affiliate link through to your site.

    In wooCommerce you are going to designate each product as an "External Affiliate Product" then copy all the information from Amazon and get a picture.

    Once you've done this for all your products your customers can then shop your site. They can add products to your cart on your site and then they would "Check Out" through Amazon. This also gives people a reason to come back to shop.

    I believe the Amazon cookie lasts for 90 days with this methods rather than 24 hours ... but I'm not 100% on that.

    It would take some Copy and Paste and a lot of mindless work but I think it would pay off.
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