Digisign Website Design Request Made Easy

Digisign website design request

good monday afternoon damn near evening my name is chrissey hughes owner founder of nerdsworld.com and i'm setting myself on a mission this is a personal challenge i'm attempting to shoot 30 videos in 30 days incredible no right now downtown toronto as i look over the city it is becoming dark the rain the overcast skies it's a perfect time to shoot and in today's video i am going to review some of your submitted websites now i appreciate everyone that submitted me their website on the category section of youtube which i'm about to show you unfortunately i cannot go through absolutely everyone and i want to say i am a humble critiquer of your work i know i am not perfect but i have the experience that i believe and the know-how to direct you or recommend you to make proper changes in order to increase your business and your online authority so once again my goal is not to offend anyone please take this my critique constructive criticism opposed to me just tearing you down that being said i'm pretty blunt and i'm going to tell you exactly how i feel about your website if your website's ugly i'm going to say your website's ugly so are you prepared for it so i requested you guys the audience to submit your websites and let's just start going through the mix and let's get this party started okay stop the tape i'm almost complete to edit i'm going to jump in interject because i want you guys the watchers to participate in today's video so do me a favor in the comments below rank your top three favorite websites in today's video in order tell us which websites you like the best number one two and three in the comments below i'm curious to see your opinion let's get back into today's video okay uh at first glance stylistically it's nice and clean but it's lacklustering i'm missing the hero image now a hero image is that big punch you in the face image that normally attracts the user okay so when we build a website we're building a website for the user without question we're also building for google so our our absolute goal is for the user to have a great experience and not to bounce off your website bounce means i come to your website i'm not immediately attracted to it i don't have the answers to the questions i thought i should have so i bounce without viewing a second page the higher the bounce rating the worse off your website metrics are so the reason we normally have a hero image that is it it's literally front and center and it makes sense for your brand and the service or product that you're attempting to sell or promote so for that reason i would say 99 of the time i recommend an image images speak greater volumes than words because most people skim words opposed to read words so that being said it's a clean looking template it's very spread now i understand this is a big computer that i'm using it's very spread but let's go through it in in greater detail okay so i do like the navigation how it's laid out that is the order in which i would do it home about services testimonial work um book a call and contact yes that makes sense your logo or your name it's not branded it looks like just the font which it is it could work now marketing for small businesses get what you need on time on budget and in style that's a catchy phrase i i like it at a fraction of the cost of hiring an in-house graphic designer so i like that you touch upon your call to action is graphic design because if you didn't have that little subtext i wouldn't know at first glance what it is that you're attempting to sell so you do have a call to action there i think a button would be great maybe to a portfolio i think too many people are forcing clients or prospects directly to their pricing page where i think their portfolio your portfolio is is very important for your client to see because once again right now i'm not seeing any portfolio so packages start at as low as 6.75 i would remove that i don't think you need to be hitting the user with a price point that soon remember they've just seen your site they haven't seen any of your work and already you're you're telling them the price point because look if you back up a price point of 675 but even the word starting as low as because when you say as low as you know to me is the price low i don't know i haven't seen your portfolio to the average person that comes to your site that knows that websites like fiverr exist for five bucks or ten dollars or 25 this is ridiculously high and i'm not saying your price is high what i'm saying is that you're putting the thought of right now when i see starting as low as 675 the sky is the limit like what does it mean your price is 10 000 20 000 i don't know so i would not lead with that i would i would definitely remove that but let's go through this so jessica carlo is an experienced creative swiss army knife eliminating marketing overwhelm for toronto and remote clients oh that's cool you're in toronto hello toronto to trottonian um so i like that you have a little blurb and i love that you have a picture of yourself uh wonderful personality is the key to success i think the image is very big and knowing statistics that people don't always come this low i think there's definitely a way to work a picture of yourself into the top half of this this website page three ways to work together hourly make sense retainer one day design incentive see how it works uh great testimonial let's talk a lot of white area like this space here this big chunky i could fit my fat hands and thick fingers too much space way too much space for me because like if you look at the top you're spread all the way side to side which i don't think you need to be and as i scroll down now your margins like your left and right margins are really really big and this bottom let's talk it's just to me it's just too big remember this keeping in mind the average user is only going to visit your home page i definitely think if you're a graphic designer you should have some of your work on the home page but like even underneath your little credit of 2019 uh it's a big blank area i just think everything can be slightly more condensed and i definitely want to see some of your portfolio on the home page let's go to the next about uh great i love it photo i'm not going to read through everything uh spacing to me is just it's too much and i clicked on about i don't know like the about pages is is very important without a shadow of a dome i don't know i i just think i've clicked on two pages and i still haven't seen any of your work yet so let's click on the services page a lot of text a lot of text clean text no doubt it's it's outlining everything that you do but once again i'm three pages in and i still haven't seen any of your work and i'm going to touch upon that a little bit more okay testimonials yes nice clean i don't want to repeat myself spacing is a little bit too much but looks good so i'm on my fifth page now i'm going to see work i can predict the future now i'm going to see work wow now you're now we've gone off the page to a pdf which i don't like i want to see your your work on the website i don't mind having a downloadable pdf that you could submit but now you've changed everything because i feel like i'm i'm off i am off i'm off your website and the text is really big let me let me go through this putting personality in high performance i like it i don't like the way that you've cut out these images like facebook there's no margins it doesn't look proper it doesn't look as good as it could i'll put it that way the first one doesn't look bad second one you're you're you're touching your text is touching left to right so it's showing is showing some of your work but i don't think it's showing a lot it's not showing a wide range of work which worries me somewhat if i'm a prospect because like when i come look at a portfolio i'm looking okay is the person capable of doing what i need them to do and if you only show me like six pieces of your work it makes me feel like you're somewhat inexperienced even though you might not be and i think this is a problem that developers and designers do is like they build their portfolio around what they personally like you know like which client did i have fun doing or which end-all project did i enjoy the most and it shouldn't be that important like you need to be putting up work from very basic stuff to very complex stuff anything that you're capable of doing because i know what clients are looking for they're looking to look at your portfolio and say i like number one a or i like number 17b that's the type of direction i want to go and when you're limiting yourself as to how much portfolio you actually have here it's limiting it's limiting and i'm not questioning your talents right i'm questioning why you chose these items to be on your portfolio opposed to others and once again i would not have this leave i wouldn't have a separate pdf work so sorry that's what i just clicked on book a call so i'm curious book a call okay pretty basic contact i don't like that the contact is over here i would put it somewhere over here i mean it's a pretty basic clean simple site would i hire you based off of what i've seen right now today if i was a prospect looking for a two-hour graphic design work the answer is no i wouldn't i just don't see the portfolio there that being said let's touch up on all the things i do like i love it that you're branded with your personality wonderful you're using the same fonts the same colors the symmetry is there although spacing i think is a little bit off but i mean you have all the pages that i think you require in order to start booking a lot of clients but i'm just concerned as to your bounce rating how many people are going to come to your website and leave because the first thing that they're going to remember is packages start as low as 6.75 so jessica those are my thoughts on your website i'm not sure what this background leaf is or the meaning behind it and i know it might mean something to you although it might not but to the user i don't know i don't know how important it is to your brand so uh and if you're a designer i definitely put some design thought into your own brand your own name right the logo itself that being said uh your website's not bad it's a good way to start today's video jessica i appreciate it next peridol guys i'm just randomly going through and picking i apologize i know i cannot get everyone i'm just randomly picking domains okay let's see um i don't speak german so i'm attempting to i don't know i'm stuck i don't know what to do um uh i can tell you what my first concern is i know you're not targeting me but i don't even know what i clicked on hopefully i want a prize but pop-ups i don't like 99.8 of the time i don't like i would get rid of it standing in the way from your user getting to what they actually want to see which is your website the service you provide etc so let's see i i don't know what everything says but visually let's go through this if this is you it's great that you have yourself front page i love it but you look ridiculously small you look like that that movie like honey i shrunk the kids where everything is big and you're tiny i need i need you to get bigger grow bigger take up more space right now you're not doing that from a branded standpoint your logo looks good clean i like that you have some clean call to actions spacing is off symmetry is off i mean like the spacing between here and here which i normally do with a finger here is good here is good but as i scroll down like that spacing is different like why is the number different here to here i just want to see more consistency let's scroll down so website this looks good i like that your margins are are lined up looks good these things should remain the same here the spacing like i can put three fingers now this is you i presume again it's the same photo you're a good looking individual let's see more than one photo let's brand yourself clean clean website there's no wow factor there's nothing that's gonna just like make me jump out on my chair and say wow you know i'm impressed this is really incredible that being said it's a clean website professional so let's go through a few pages and see what we think web design okay portfolio i like the way it's laid out mocked up guys if you ever want to mock up your websites or graphic design work there's a website called graphic burger and i'll leave a link to the description most of it's free you can pay premium costs for some mock-ups but if you guys are ever looking for a way to mock up your designs graphic burger link in the description below this is neat a little animation cool different clean clean is the first thing i think of when i see this site oh here we go again this is i'm i have a count of how many times you've used your own photo this time your head is cut off i'm not entirely sure what this says but third time you're using the same photo let's see a new photo uh but clean you know if you've followed my my channel for any duration of time you know that i'm a believer in having price points on the website and i'm not saying that's the only way to go about it i'm just saying it's done really well for me it eliminates a lot of the questions that i have when i schedule a consultation like how much will this cost so i have those price points front and center so i don't waste the users time the client's time prospects time and i don't waste my time so that being said it's completely up to you what you do page looks okay so seo page looks good oh that i like that finger point that that's my fingerprint that's good again you look a little too small but i like it i like it services so i mean it's a clean site no question looks good no wow factor uh but it looks good let's jump on to the next thank you let's go to java consulting hopefully i'm saying that correctly and i've been easy on both number one and two because their websites look clean i guarantee i'm gonna find one really ugly website and i can't wait to attack next we build awesome websites i like that i like awesome websites uh it's really stretched like i mean your logo to the left and the navigation to the right really really stretched i like create some margins let's bring those in some our mission our mission is to provide a personalized engaging and empowering website design i love it okay you're showing yourself congratulations if that is you which i think it is wonderful most websites lack personality and you have your face front and center and you are the founder and managing director wonderful so our mission our most recently built websites portfolio pricing i love it i love it some client testimonials faq wonderful okay nice clean website page i don't think your hero image needs to be taking up the full screen at all i think that like currently your height is here you could definitely be bringing this down like this it's a blurry photo it's not needed like it doesn't look bad but it's not needed and even this at the top i'm saying congrats you visited this page on a perfect date click here to get your website built for free wait a sec you're telling me that you're building websites for free you're building websites for free i gotta click i gotta click on that offer i'm just curious how i'm gonna get a free website so i have to schedule a free consultation with a gift web conferencing details okay this is the second website i've seen with calendly um i don't know i'm not sold and i don't know why you're giving away free anything free consultation is cool but free websites and that's the first thing people see is that you're working for free i don't know the science behind that you have to you'll have to tell me in the comments why why you're offering your service for free because your website's not that bad that you need to be doing this for free interested in building a new website or rebuilding an old and efficient website schedule a no obligation and free consultation with gift to discuss your website project uh i don't know free gifts man i'm in business to make money i can't be giving away free gifts that being said if it works for you it works for you okay i don't recall what page i just clicked on mckay where where did i how did i get here okay accountants so i'm looking at your portfolio a lot of information let's open this up quickly see what happens site looks good i don't i'm not sold on this this is a big empty area but i mean the site looks good let's go back to your site i like that it opens into a new window reviews okay three reviews nothing wrong with that blog no results found if there's no results phone get rid of the blog it doesn't need to be there so my question is this what is your email address can i call you is there a phone number or do i have to go through this third party calendly to figure it out i'd much rather see a contact page with a contact information email phone number skype zoom whatever your your your you would like but this not sold on this i mean your site is average it's not bad it's average if i were a prospect would i hire you to build my website no not at this point i'm not seeing enough i'm not seeing or learning enough seeing the same four portfolio pieces on your portfolio as i am on your home page but it says view full portfolio here and this is your full portfolio it's not bad not spectacular no wow factor i want that wow factor i want your website to be so damn good delicious that when i see it i start salivating from my my mouth because i'm like there is zero question that i found the perfect design and development team to work on my website remember this guys when you start this type of business you are against the world everybody and their mother owns a web development company so when a prospect comes to your website you need to stand out you need to have that wow factor and without it it is difficult to make a real living in this industry so we need that wow factor wow okay next what did i click on 1993designs.com uh i guess that's the year you were born maybe i don't know okay uh logo looks okay nothing wrong with it uh i'm not sold on on the navigation being here at the top that being said it's not bad i'm seeing a lot of colors and the colors are i guess they're branded because you're using them over and over again but i don't think that they're very complementary like a red with a i don't know almost neon green and black and this hero image as i continue to go through websites you're going to see this more and more i didn't i just don't think it's being used as as well as it could and there's a lot of text here like there's a lot of information to look at you know hero image should normally be like one sentence a real call to action like boom boom and i'm just not seeing it here i get it you're a web design agency i like that you've dumbed it down there's no question i like that type of stuff but down here there's a lot of information and you don't have a clear call to action like who's going to come to this part of your con like who's going to come to your website right now and click oh what a beautiful website let me contact them because i want to give them my money no they're not they want to see your portfolio or they want to set up a consultation etc so i think it's just too soon to put contact us and you have the phone number there as well i'd much rather see a contact item in your navigation top right because i mean everything here looks good so as i scroll down i'm seeing your phone number and contact again so i mean phone number phone number spacing again like i like to use my finger as spacing the space between different sections look at this look what my eye is drawn to you have all this text which i didn't read the first thing i see is extra revisions are doable but are an extra charge i understand that side of the business and yes they are doable and yes there is an extra charge but by no means in the world should you be putting that on the home page your website and highlighting it can you imagine you're a prospect thinking i want to hire somebody that's going to build my website that i can trust that i'm not going to be overly charged for and then my eye is attracted to the yellow highlighted statement in the middle of the home page and it says it is doable of course it's doable get rid of that that's really bad now search engine optimization our search engine optimization prices vary from project to project of course uh our seo campaigns start from the bottom up we work our way to the top to get your business found better i might pull your card on this meaning i might i might pull your stats like symmetry guys symmetry like evenness the lines are off like look at this tiger here and how come this portfolio piece doesn't take up the full space over here this gentleman cutting hair or this woman's teeth it's not there like cemeteries spend some time and get they should be exactly equal spacing should be identical well it's really raining really raining outside i don't know if you guys catch that on the mic sounds like hail i love it when it rains rain rain let it rain yesterday my wife and i we were at niagara falls we went down for the day two days ago we had a babysitter our nanai and lolopa we're gonna look after our three children and as we're driving it started getting a little dark so we start driving and it starts to pour so we pull over to the side we duck underneath a little i don't know what you want to call it a part of a hotel nobody was there and we waited for three hours for this rain to stop and it didn't stop it kept raining and raining and raining hear the thunder so we said listen let's go get a hotel we looked we booked a hotel at the falls view so we're overlooking niagara falls and we had a nine minute or ten minute drive it was spitting at that point we're like hell it let's just do it and for those that don't know i have a convertible and there's no roof so as we start driving it started hailing the storm was coming down the the wax i put in my hair was bleeding into my eyes and i couldn't see it i was my shirt was like this and anyway we got to the hotel soaking wet we pull up everybody's outside the lobby laughing at us saying that's my story for today so you have some content i just guys i'm missing the wow factor that's it i'm not here to insult you i appreciate you letting me review it i just think your website needs a lot of work and if you do not have the design sense be upfront with yourself there's nothing wrong with that hire somebody to come in and clean up your website let somebody that has a gift in style and design tell you the way that you should design and i think this is a big problem in our industry there is a difference between web design and web development okay there are a lot of gifted developers that can develop any type of website but they design ugly websites because they do not have that design trait built into them be upfront with yourself uh and if i were you i would not do it myself i would get somebody else to direct you on what should be done even though that's on your own website consistency here sorry i should have brought some water uh what is web design like this is camel case your first letter in every word is capitalized we call it camel case down here there's nothing capitalized here only the first word is capitalized like i mean it's all over there's no consistency no brand uh much and i don't i don't know what this is this squiggly do i don't know was it a drawing you did as a child i don't know is it branded for a web development company not really but i mean you've gotten work you have a portfolio so what can i say nothing bad to say flight deck records.com let's check them out load time is moving slow let's see you think i can hold my breath until it loads lucky i was gonna pass out yeah load time was ridiculously slow and i feel like i'm in the clouds but flight deck records local music producer in perth music producer oh there's a little flash so a lot of different fonts very big fonts i wear glasses but my eyesight is 20 20. it's perfect this is for a fashion statement but i mean it looks like the text was written for the seeing impaired or older older folks the page is long and i just don't think it's styled right like i've told you already i believe a hero image is hugely important uh but this flight deck records i think the name is cool but that load time i i guess it has to do with the big video of clouds in the background and i'd much rather a quick load time than to have a video of clouds the clouds themselves don't do anything for me at all so i don't know i don't like it so it's a one-page scroll it looks like which i don't like either much rather see i don't even know i can't click you're frozen my mouse my mouse okay oh what did i do what what what happened i'm stuck i can't do it i'm stuck in the clouds i can't i can't move i can't move so while i'm stuck and the page is figuring out if i can use it okay it'll allow me to use it i'm not a believer in one one page scrolling websites i'd much rather see the pages broken down separately i don't know the website is average it doesn't look current could definitely be much better fonts are too big clouds are too often and like recording studio what i think is music what i'd like to see is music artists maybe feature a different artist every month on the home page so now i can do some let's see now i can move around navigation is not great it's not set up in a manner that it's it's user friendly the pages themselves look pretty much the same no matter what i click on so i think they are the same i don't know same videos i'm seeing over and over again or picture i don't know what this is picture like a screenshot it's a boring website sorry aaron you're next bring some happiness in my life aaron please i need it i solve business problems by crafting custom designed websites yeah it's cool i hate this i hate the hamburger menu you're on a desktop i'm on a desktop i don't want to see a hamburger menu i want to see an actual navigation no hero i'm seeing some slight text floating around in the background i'm not sure if you can see it it disappeared oh css python uh okay so the only way i can do anything is i can click here or i can view work i do like that your call to action is to view work no question now when i first saw your home page i thought okay it's simple it's clean but hey it's not that bad now as i enter your website man it lacks that wow like this website down here is hideous if that's what the actual website looks like what i'm about to see it's like wow like this is something i would never feature this on the home page this looks like it was built 20 years ago by some geocities website there are some websites that you should not put on your portfolio like and this is the first thing that i'm showing people that's the first thing you're showing people it's like visit my website okay i'm a full stack web developer watch my work and then i come i'm get i get hit with that okay portfolio okay we've seen that already should have known that services as a full stack developer i help any size business gain a web presence by building mobile responsive interactive user-friendly websites while also providing ongoing web maintenances maintenances to get started on a project or to learn about how i can solve your business problem email me here next i can contact so it's a pretty simple website no wow aaron i don't know what you look like uh i don't know where you are normally i when i go to a contact page i'll see what the area code is so i i know where they're located i don't see that i don't know i don't know anything about you uh maybe if i dug a little deeper but i'm not going to sorry aaron not you didn't wow me you didn't knock my socks off today i think your website can be better next okay web okay design webs can't speak design websites that convert let's see if your website converts now brought to you by chris from nerdsworld.com okay top left i'm not seeing any branding or any logo it's white pretty boring boring white pink very risque color to go pink um you i don't know if you're catering to the female market and i'm not saying that only pink means only female i wear pink shoes in pink underwear all the time so don't but but i'm saying from a user standpoint i would much rather go that corporate type color because the average person is not going to be looking for a pink website i could be wrong i might not be as i scroll down i'm seeing it's clean so far it's clean no question learn more okay cool navigation i like the order in which you're putting your items i hate the magnifying glass search functionality on a website i don't like my goal is to get people to to look at individual pages not to search um using a magnifying okay what i can do for you let's see what you can do for me uh wordpress themes okay web design for businesses cool graphic design and video editing okay here we go about me i should have guessed that you were going to be a female based on the design nothing wrong with that um i don't like that these three options are not lining up you can easily line these up just to give you that symmetry and also if we look at the left and right margins so i mean the left space from your picture to the left okay versus the next the spacing's off like everything if i had a ruler i should be able to line up everything and right now it's not it's not lining up so i mean you could just stretch this a little bit now we're now our margins are shot out of they're all over the place right so here we have a nice darker color font so it's easy to read now it becomes very light i think it should all be the same uh not different colors in different sections even your call to actions i think they could pop a little bit more the light color is somewhat harder to read it doesn't it just it's not it's not popping let's keep going down so your work process i don't know if work process is important enough to show on your home page i'd much rather see your portfolio than your work process that being said i'm not sure let's click on a few pages and i'm glad let's touch up on it uh i'm glad your your face is there it's wonderful uh professional and it makes complete sense so thank you for adding personality to your website let's click on a few pages let's go to services web design process you're really happy with your process because it seems like that's the predominant page in which you're trying to generate traffic to which i'm not sold on i think your portfolio is more important so i'm missing a lot of space like big empty space here i don't know if something was forgotten or not sold on the design of this page lacklustering oh oh i'm seeing a trend a lot of white area messy white area no symmetry lack of symmetry l o s that's what i'm called lack of symmetry and hard to read and can you believe like services for businesses who offer services to clients like that's it professional there's not enough not enough info what is the scope of service oh i clicked i don't even know what happened okay so in this consultation too much to read i don't want to read it sorry it's monday i don't feel like reading it but i see that you like this left to right and once again i'm not sold on it car wash service landing page see demo let's see the demo yeah messy real messy messy messy messy messy messy i don't like it and the user just left your website because you didn't open into a new window rates let's click on rates and okay landing page 3.99 i like that you have price points i don't like that they're not lined up i don't like that they're not lined up and i hate this contact form fill up the form no i will not i don't like it i don't like it at all you're from the philippines i love the philippines my wife's from the philippines my kids are half filipino and i've visited once i'd like to live in the philippines i'd like to go there for a year and live in the philippines uh this page is only half full doesn't even fill up the full page i think your site needs some work and as i touched upon in the last person hire somebody that knows or ask a friend or befriend somebody that has that style essence built into them they'll direct you to build a more beautiful website to match your personality if you really want to be successful in this industry you got to dedicate a little bit of money and time into the design of your own website because then when somebody visits your website they're more likely to hire you opposed to run and scream as they run away from your website next then i might need a drink get a little uh okay let's see fj.tc not entirely sure what that stands for but i can see you're from the united kingdom welcome you only have three pages home service and our work which i think is not enough i know it's not enough i'm seeing graphics that i'm sure are cookie cutter stock images that you just added a screen to hey i know maybe other people don't know so maybe it's not bad your new technology partner so okay what kind of technology are we talking about this looks okay doesn't look bad this big space here yeah it's not bad like to the average person that looks at the site there that i get clean website cool professional you know i'm not the average user and i'll say it lacks personality all this cookie cutter stuff like where's your face what did you actually do so i think as i get through this this video i might get a little harsher i'm hoping that i find a real gem but what i'm finding so far is a lot of average websites and maybe i'll be upfront right now this is a very small site but i'd say this is probably the best one i've seen in today's video thus far i don't know okay clean our work like even get in touch this is hard to see i would have a contact right here but let's see our work our work looks good looks good if these are your real project then congratulations because they they look good our solutions looks good man it's clean there's nothing it's clean i just think it lacks personality and lacks size and lacks like a big contact in about page let's click on this because the pages themself are clean there's no question so site itself looks good i'll just go bigger go in more more in depth add an about page add a contact page and just add a little personality show the team that's working but i mean cytosoft looks looks professional so thank you the fez patrick i think i've done this one in the past i don't know let's take a look pretty sure recognize the name let's do it again australia's leading supplier of polystyrene i don't know what that is i can't read um popular products okay some of them have images some of them don't not sold on that and this foil board sort of disappears into the image so maybe like a transparency like this you have a green transparency over this doesn't this is cool nice section three-step process here you have camel case sometimes you do sometimes you don't this you don't not a huge difference this is a crowded pile of this is a mess like what is this put some thought into it like get like this just looks i don't know should i show you how to do it but like sizing is everything so look if i do this quickly look and that this is something i see often so it's not just with this person sorry i'm not insulting you let's do this very quickly hey there's my new artwork i worked on my youtube channel what do you think anything decent so we don't need to create nothing new let's open let's open this bad boy up very quickly let's do this okay this is what you currently have which looks horrible now look how simple this is each one of these is a box right imaginary box so let's just for the sake of doing this quickly let's just make some boxes and i'm not going to go all out and waste your time doing this whole thing i'm not gonna do your homework for you you're gonna do it yourself but look what i'm saying let's get rid of this okay we're gonna make some quick boxes so when you upload this it doesn't need to take up the full box you know what the lines are i'll cover in the back boom okay here we go i hear sirens in the back and bigger is not always better with logos guys it doesn't have to be so damn big a blind man can see the size of his logos look at this but you want to have them centered i would do with a ruler right now i'm just doing it very quickly to show you how much cleaner a section can look with about five minutes of effort this is on the homepage of your website how can you not put effort into the homepage of your website guys you can you should you will okay guys i want to keep them relatively the same size symmetry and let me finish off these last two and then you're gonna have to use your imagination even this block as you can see it's not perfect and i would use the ruler to do it exact i would do the logo something more like this line them up nicely use a ruler when i say use a ruler i just put my guide to make sure it's lined up exactly not just by eye and i get it some fonts are going to be slightly different for that reason you just center it this is still too big for me so anyway i don't want to waste your time showing you how to use photoshop this is some basic stuff but to give you an idea this is what i would make it look like and do likewise for the bottom so okay i don't know who these characters are uh looks repetitive and doesn't look real i would try to put a picture of my angela claudette cookie cutter website boring website but i mean maybe that's all you need maybe that's all you wanted a lot of people in this world just want to be average want to get by if you want to get by this is perfect it's boring if you want to be exciting add some excitement please next about okay i'm seeing these rolls of something boring like it's in about show me where you're doing this where where's this being manufactured sold show me a buyer show me anything show me something exciting this is boring it's a lot of text now this is cool look now i can see your work why can't i see your work on the home page i thought all this time i thought this website was boring and now i can see like there's some real nice work here the quality of the photography is not spectacular in some circumstances but like why am i not seeing this on the home page this is exciting like look at the difference exciting vibrant colors wow versus white whatever the heck that is yeah okay website website's not horrible i'm not saying it's horrible just saying it's not good it's boring it's branded i don't know needs work let's try this one try these last four then we'll call it a day guys i'll be honest i enjoy auditing people's websites for myself but when i'm doing it in this manner it makes me feel like a real a-hole okay because for the watcher you're like wow chris i looked at your website your website's not perfect i get it i know it's not perfect right i'm trying to give you recommendations in order for you to increase your your sales and to thrive in this industry so you might not need a perfect website but if you're anything like me you're always driving for a better website and i just think what i what i see the far majority of the time when i do these videos is is average like there's no wow like wow factor in business is so important personality authority passion you know attention to detail these are things that are hugely important symmetry consistency but they're all things that are lacking like look at this navigation at the top big empty white space top to top just it can be like it's shrunk down now i'm seeing the hero image which thank the lord that you have a hero image uh web design and digital marketing company we offer a full range of digital marketing services okay it's pretty simple um welcome this now spacing again get a free consultation i don't know what this rainbow effect is this looks like you mixed blue kool-aid with red kool-aid and you're it was sitting for an hour so it like they didn't mix properly or some kind of alcoholic beverages i don't know what the hell it doesn't need to be on your website it looks really bad it looks bad white text on blue like that's rule number one you're a web development company how am i gonna hire you to build my website i'm gonna presume that you're gonna build that type of website i don't like it your user is not gonna like it i'd be very surprised if you get clients from this website and i don't think it needs to be rebuilt i just think there has to be some style put into it if you don't have the style hire somebody to put style i'm telling you that the colors don't go white text on blue do not go this vibrant kool-aid color no good no buenos no buenos let's click on this let's try something different let me see let me see what your team looks like let's see your your work click on instagram oh instagram doesn't work let's try twitter twitter doesn't work so why have it if it doesn't work and why is your logo so ridiculously small there don't you have pride in your logo your logo is like your flag it's your brand there's no pride in putting something that small it's too small no emphasis that being said i don't think your logo needs to be at the bottom i'd much rather see it gone and move this up a little bit change the color sorry i told you i'm gonna get grumpier the further i get in this damn video next who are we our mission what do we do our history would you like to start a project with us right now absolutely not get in touch and have your business kick started uh who are we we're a digital marketing company that seeks to provide web design and digital marketing solutions at affordable prices to enable business growth man that sounds good you if i didn't look at your website and i read that i'd be like oh these guys know what they're doing then i saw that color in the footer and it changed my mind our mission is to help small and medium-scale business to leverage the power of the internet to reach millions of users by our modern marketing strategies wonderful not going to read at all no wow factor average like whatever the passing grade is in school 50 you get 50 if i was a teacher you'd probably get less 30 sorry um stock images now we're introducing new colors already your logo has three weird colors together like a teal a rural blue and a green it's like a mucus green and then we're now we have red we have red what time is it 355 or pink is it pink yeah it's pink not sold not sold contact us pretty simple you're in ghana i'd love to visit ghana you probably hate me now now if i'm in your your neck of the woods you're like i'm not going anywhere near that guy i hate that guy chris but ghana's on my list of places to visit i'm not seeing any portfolio any price points sorry not attempting to offend anyone jay travis jay travis help me bring happiness into my life on this monday cloudy evening afternoon i guess it is on a great background but now it pops into place jason you have a photo perfect i like your photo hello i'm jason hello jason not bad not no not wow i'm not wowed simple clean about it doesn't you don't even give me a full page jason you give me a pop-up can you demand a full page this is i don't know i don't like that i don't like it okay services the page is okay no wow not that exciting i'd put some sort of overlay it looks very blurry photograph now portfolio so i had to get this deep into your website to find portfolio and your portfolio looks good it looks laid out at least you've gotten some work done i would showcase some of this elsewhere on your site remember the average person that comes to your website is not viewing every single page they're going to take a quick glimpse and see should i bounce or should i stay so give them the information they're looking for very soon in on the actual visit to your website i don't know contact is pretty straight forward here state so how about if i'm not in a state can i still hire you or no see your instagram let's see what jay is doing jay likes dogs i like dogs too oh jay likes that picture uh don't be busy be productive i like that cool jay your website passes i'm not wowed benjamin j john rock okay we guarantee our work and have oh i'm not good at reading that went too quickly website creation target marketing online karma seo so what is this this is a video game what do i do okay i go down oh we guarantee our work and have a reputation for being the best i am not wowed when i when i look at this right here i see so many different colors so many different things going on like an old school video game a lot of colors testimonial a lot of movement maybe too much movement customer service is everything this little fan thing to me it's overkill too much going on anyway what happened i did i didn't i didn't touch him i didn't do anything get a free custom website we are giving away a free another person giving away free websites what are you guys doing to our industry what are you doing to yourself demand a payment for your work like put it this way i understand you're giving away a free website here or there whatever you're doing i don't know why but whatever you're doing is there any way i'm going to look at your website with any kind of appreciation for your work now that i know you're giving away stuff for free the answer is no i'm not i don't like it i don't like pop-ups and i don't like free stuff i'm in business to make money not to do free stuff my goodness two-year worry-free guarantee you're giving away a lot of promises payments for 12-month plan how do you survive you must have rich rich family because i don't know how you're surviving with all this free stuff 12-month pan plan get a free custom design website let's let's because you're near the end let's read into this on monday august 31st we are giving away a custom website we'll be raffling off a custom design starter template for free simply sign up for our newsletter below verify your email et cetera so on so forth yes yes yes sign up now and get one entry to win a website for free horrible horrible idea i get it you're trying to build your your mailing list but there's other ways to do it like give away some good content forget about that yuck i don't like free chris doesn't like free seo services uh whole website needs work like there's a lot going on and you're in richmond i guess i'm trying to see lizard our work like where do i click where do i go about is testimonials there's no pictures of you just a robot i don't where do i go website i want to see your portfolio our work okay let's see our work okay you've done work so i like this a lot going on i like the fact that you've done work that's the single most important uh after i reviewed your page would i hire you no i don't want a website like that so for that reason i wouldn't this is incredible though the last post you put on instagram was like the 10 ux web design stats your website can't afford to ignore i think you're breaking a lot of the rules yourself who's this took some professional pictures in the woods looking good guys why don't we use those photos on the website they are looking good they're looking happy see if i just looked at the picture of them i'll be like those are some nerds i want to work with but when i see their website the problem is this the builder of the website is building this website for themselves opposed to the prospect or potential user build a website for the person that's going to be visiting your website and hiring you for your service when you put all these little things in here and jumping around and animation hey that's just cool but it's not cool for the user most people do not and when i say most i mean the far majority of people that visit your website do not want any of the stuff i'm seeing on your site that being said i like the fact that you're using a little robot i think that's cool i would just use it in a different way you guys got some nice pictures you're you're you're attempting a life and death walk over the bridge in the rapids below cool three friends building websites i like that i just get rid of a lot of these elements i really really would a lot going on those are my thoughts for that are we nearing the completion of today's video that's it rick's going to be the last one and i know i got like 50. i put so many guys submit they send me dms like hey review my website i get message on twitter i get emails guys i need to keep it all in one place so let's see what this one is rick rick is a lion i love lions i have a lion in my living room i didn't kill it but it's in my living room it died um rick you've made it welcome to rick i am very passionate graphics websites building brands i look forward to the opportunity rick this could be the best website i've seen today so far so good i hate the damn hamburger menu you know what the lion hates it too if you look at the line if you look deep into the lion's eyes as it looks up at the the hamburger menu it's like and it's like what are you doing why are you putting that there this is for mobile responsive menus this is that's for mobile this is for desktop desktop should have a full navigation guys user experience but i mean so far it looks decent i like the colors too logo looks cool and i like the lion who doesn't like a lion um driven my success okay the movement is cool clean professional nothing wrong with it there's no wow that's not wowing me but looks good looks clean let's see about this is a small site let's go through it all yeah i like it i like it i like it i like it i'd like to see a picture of rick rick where's your picture it's an about page why can't i see what you look like or better yet a video look how many websites i reviewed today not one single video guys get the cojones the balls to step in front of the camera and shoot some videos it doesn't have to be perfect better is better better is done done is better than perfect done is better than perfect um okay services i hate not seeing that navigation at the top it's just me i don't know logo design love it that you have practice love it that you have price points like your portfolio this is the winner today i this is the one like there's still room for improvement no question but i think this is the nicest website i reviewed today clean i can clean this up in a couple hours in my eyes to bring it to the next level see contact clean no phone number i think you should have a phone number i wouldn't use the same line picture over and over again but still clean and you're slacking with blog i would have more than one blog clean website toronto canada huh this is i don't know where you're looking you're not located in toronto that's it you have one follower so i appreciate everyone and hopefully i wasn't too hard on anyone i love you guys and i'm doing this as a way to motivate you to get your act together and clean up your damn website stop building ugly websites in 2020. my name is chris a hughes owner founder of owner and co-founder i don't give my wife enough credit it slips my mouth and she is definitely the backbone to this company so chris a hughes co-founder of nerdsworld.com if you guys want me to uh review your website in the future you know what don't hesitate to leave a comment below and just make sure you have the backbone to put up and listen to my recommendation hope you guys have a wonderful night we'll see you tomorrow 30 videos in 30 days i'll be back new video new content good night goodbye god bless you