Hello abdgd. Congrats on launching your new website! As a designer I’m sure you understand the importance of showcasing your work and talent.
My first reaction is that the site (theme) is nice and clean. But it’s lacking visual interest. I strongly suggest you show off your design skills on the homepage and draw your viewers in. Give them a reason to stick around and see what you can do!
I’ll be happy to take another look when you get a bit further along.
Happy WPing!
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abdgd
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Thank you mate, I know I need to show my work, I had a slideshow with pictures but tje problem is my site took too long time to visit, so I decided to remove it.
Do you have any tips? And another question: Do you feel that my website is slow or is it fast?
Best Regards!
No issues now with loading time for me. I think you’ll be fine with adding in the slideshow. Just make sure to optimize your images a bit. PNGs under 200k or so should do the trick.
I’d be happy to take another look for you if/when you add it back in.
Happy WPing!
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abdgd
(@abdgd)
Check my website now, I am sure you will love it. New theme, new logo (new colors), better slideshow, much faster and cleaner, cached and optimized both pages, photos and css/jscripts. What do you think now? Give me your opinions please.
abdgd.com
Abdullah,
I think that your website has a very clean and professional look to it Congratulations and all the best with your design business.
Pedro.
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abdgd
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Thank you mate, I hope more people like it and check it out. I have been working long nights on it.
Looks good. I would move the Privacy and TOC to the bottom of the page. Above the fold is valuable real estate. Nobody reads the privacy policy or TOC even though its required.
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abdgd
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Nice idea SanDiegoDave7, I am done with it.
Add a “Our Work” page on http://abdgd.com/our-work/
Check it out and give me feedback.
Look I have only been using WP for two weeks – virgin 🙂 and I think lorbach’s idea of “showcasing your work and talent” and SanDiegoDave7’s suggestion about relocating the Privacy and TOC were both a really good suggestions and your site looks great, I would even up the size of the home widgets. I think you just use a bit of custom css like,
.home-widgets .widget-wrapper {
min-height: (height of largest widget box);
}
even if you had to fill out the text in the two smaller boxes to even the content size up. Like I said, I am really new to all this but I think that doing this would as they say in Australia “put the icing on the cake” see http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20090318081958AAZDhOP
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abdgd
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Thank you Pedro14755
http://abdgd.com/
look how it looks like now! Thank you.
I could not see arabic version of the website.
I just checked back in for another peek. Wow … that is great,and I’m sure that the professional look of your site will help your business expand in the future. Good luck.
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abdgd
(@abdgd)
blograzzi: the arabic version is down (I need a proffisional translator, I am hiring one very soon to translate all english contect to arabic):
Pedro14755: Thank you so much, I made the site after much of work and now the sv.abdgd.com for swedish is up
I am not making security edits to make it secure (fk the hackers mate 🙂
I am sorry if it seems like I am offering yet another criticism of the fine job you have done on your site but I feel that the headline text really does lose something in the translation. I have taken the liberty of doing a minor re-write while trying to keep to the original ideas you were trying to get across. I have posted a re-work of your homepage here
http://imgur.com/PIHfUlU
It is certainly not perfect as I am certainly not a copy writer but please take a look and see what you think, Pedro.
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abdgd
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That is the problem that faces me… I am not a good writer, is there a good way to fix the problem?
