Hi fellow Ozbargainers! I just created a new website and wanted to get everyone's feedback. This is my first time creating a website from scratch and any suggestions for improvement would be wonderful. Thank you so much.
http://www.melbournesignsolutions.com.au/
Looks good to me, the logo seems to be in jpeg? I'm guessing if you used a png format you wouldn't have that fuzzy looking stuff near the text.
I also find the capitals at the start of each Word a bit distracting on:
"Vehicle wraps, Window Frosting, Indoor signage, Outdoor signage,Large format printing, Real Estate signage, Window Signage ,Shopping Centre Signage , Sign writing, Small Shopping Centre signage, Vinyl Printing & Installation." with the font you're using.
And theres 2 Facebook icons on the bottom thats 1 is probably redundant.
They're not really important changes and more personal ones but everything else on the site looked great to me, so I figured I'd just be nit picky :p.
Don't take this the wrong way but what is the point of your website?
Its like a business card without any useful information on where you operate from and how to contact you other than email. I can't even see what your sign work looks like.
Hey. You might want to create a favicon (icon) based on the company's logo the appear on the tab. Wix let's you do this.
As trustnoone mentioned, you also probably want to change the company logo jpg to a higher quality image, ideally a PNG. The background looks grey and pixelated against a white background.
",Shopping Centre…" is missing a space.
I don't think Wix lets you add https yet (?) so you're probabaly screwed with securing the contact form.
Other than that, same as what everyone else said.
I would leave out the 'a' in "to bring a quality, fast turnaround print to the Melbourne and regional Victoria."
I would also leave out this fluff: "Our passion for excellence is what inspired us in the beginning and it continues to drive us today."
Good luck with it :)
First of all, congratulations on your new site. You need to use a contact form which is much, much simpler. You want to encourage people to use it, so you don't need their address, phone number, subject. You need first name, email address, message. That's all. Lose the boxes, they look amateur. Ask for 'phone no only if you will be ringing them, rather than emailing them. I assume you're using a website to speed up your workflow, not be tied up on the telephone.
Your copy would benefit from simplicity. Something like, ' Contact us and we will reply within x hours, (or x days)'. You might like to add a disclaimer, such as 'We hate spam; your details are safe with us and will never be sold'.
Logo needs to be much, much bigger. Or put into a banner.
Lose the punctuation between ' Simple Quality'.
Your site is a simple, one page design: You don't need the extra tabs at the top for the contact, about us etc.
The sentence ..'turnaround print to the Melbourne and regional Victoria' makes no sense, and sounds like English is your second language. The what? The Melbourne and regional areas. Sounds odd. Say 'to bring fast, quality, turn around printing to Melbourne and Victoria'.
You pride yourself ON, not IN. You are a printer, you are expected to have excellent English, spelling and grammar skills.
What does 'a superior experience of vehicle wraps' mean, exactly?
Plus, it is too verbose. People will not want to read lots of words.
Far better would be something short and succinct like this:- Notice I have dropped the passive voice.
'We started Melbourne Sign Solutions in 2012. We provide superior, quality, solutions for all of your print needs, from vehicle wraps, sign writing and all business signage, to vinyl printing and installation. Experience excellence and fast turn around.
Our commitment to excellence will ensure your satisfaction'.
Consider having more than one social media icon. If you are soliciting email addresses, ensure you have a good spam filter
for comments, such as Akismet. I would suggest that you bold your H1 and H2, plus enlarge the H2 font.
Best wishes for the success of your business. I would suggest that you use the email sign up as the start of a marketing effort, where you can send targeted offers, discounts or specials, to your subscribers.
Oops, forgot this. If you are interested in SEO, don't have the 'welcome to', Just have your business address. The reason is that the Google search bots will be looking for the keywords to position your business in the search results. So when people type in something related to Melbourne and Signs, they will see your business at the top of the results. Welcome doesn't help in this regard.
Why have a location Map, yet not a full address just a suburb? Add full address or dont have a location Map.
One point i found was that when scrolling over the map, i actually scroll the map rather than the page. You can turn off scrolling on google maps quite easily.
Also id get some more social media. In particular a LinkedIn business page, and maybe a Behance page.
Hey OZB! I posted a couple of weeks back to get feedback on my website.
http://www.melbournesignsolutions.com.au/
Just wondering if anyone could explain to me how to list better on organic rankings? i just started some adwords and its really expensive. Any ideas that i can increase traffic to my website? e.g. other channels or some most cost effective methods to do it.
Has anyone done any meta tagging on wix and does it really help.
Do i really need to list a full address?
Do i need a contact number on my page?
Do i need to add more information on my site?
Thank you community.
Hey OZB! I just created another website: www.truckbillboardsaustralia.com.au
Could i please get everyones feedback?
Just wondering if anyone could explain to me how to list better on organic rankings? i just started some adwords and its really expensive. Any ideas that i can increase traffic to my website? e.g. other channels or some most cost effective methods to do it.
Has anyone done any meta tagging on wix and does it really help.
Do i really need to list a full address?
Do i need a contact number on my page?
Do i need to add more information on my site?
Thank you community.
On your Home Page most of the Text overlay obscures the Featured sign in the background which presumably is what you are trying to sell.
Of the people featured many are looking away or walking away from the sign, the two in the bottom right of image are having quite a conversation and really don't seem influenced by the sign at all…
Can I suggest you rework the text layout and content and consider using a shorter Domain name such as TBA.com.au (if it is available)
This would compliment the image in the top left of your Home page and is shorter and easier to remember.
I'd prefer to see a proper full address, phone, E-mail, mobile, ABN.
I can't really see how a business founded in 2012 can have spent "many years" doing anything. 5 years isn't many years (although it may seem like it is).
Agree with shorter domain name. Exact match / keyword domains have very little impact these days.
spanning across 5 cap cities
spanning 5 capital cities
"spanning across" is tautological and "cap cities" appears puerile.
very good points raised already.
g'luck
Another step is to validate your HTML.
https://validator.w3.org/nu/?doc=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.truckbill…
I can see you're using multiple H1 tags as well. Don't think google likes that
Please do not create new threads for the same question regardless of how many websites you create.
Looks nice :) Keep it up!