My dad doesnt like the website i built him

Electric said:
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rward said:
Read my previous post and get a designer.

failing that:

Do yourself a favour and change your font to OpenSans.
Possibly use Roboto for the headings.

Keep your content to 960px wide max ... wider than that and it get's very tiring to read.
Change the font colour from turquoise to just about anything else.
Drop the font size by about 4px to 10px.
The contrast of the white on turquoise in the header is hard to read.

Go check amazon - what colour are they using for their text? black? no... they're using rgb(51, 51, 51), use that.
What do they have in their menu, white? no .. rgb(204, 204, 204) - possibly use white as a hover over/active state indicator.
Make the logo transparent and put it on a darker background.
Loose the white block crap.

Give some more replies to this thread so we know what you have an have not tried or read.
If you don't give people feedback then they're going to stop commenting.
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I followed most of your suggestions. The website looks much better but too simple how can i make look beautiful. For starters i am struggling to choose colors to match the logo.
 
f22raptor said:
I followed most of your suggestions. The website looks much better but too simple how can i make look beautiful. For starters i am struggling to choose colors to match the logo.
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If the company brand colours are too garish, try to restrict your use of them to minor flourishes in the CSS. For instance your H1 style can be underlined with one of the identity colours. It looks as though you don't have a very well thought out set of text styles, but those should be the first thing you spend time to get right.

Here is an example of a company website with difficult logo colours where they have successfully integrated them into a modern looking website: www.agiloft.com.

I am still of the opinion that your abilities are far too underdeveloped and you should not waste your father's time on this project. It will take you months to produce something that a professional could do in a week.
 
f22raptor said:
I followed most of your suggestions. The website looks much better but too simple how can i make look beautiful. For starters i am struggling to choose colors to match the logo.
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Do you know why people pay professionals to develop websites for them? It's mainly because they know what they are doing and don't blunder from mistake to mistake or put awful blocks of text all over a website like some sort of high school project. Take the advice others have given and let someone who knows what they are doing sort the site for your father.
 
Also check that you have that 1020px (width of your header) page width on all your pages.

Maybe also stop using that page builder thing and go standard wordress edit box.
If you do a "view source" on your homepage then you'll understand what I mean.

Get some spacing between the paragraphs.
Stop using <br> to create spaces between paragraphs, use css rules instead.

It's not "looking beautiful" because you have everything on top of each other - give it all SPACE.
Change your lists from
Code: 
A team of 4 staff and associate consultants is led by Oliver Chanyau to provide management consultancy in the following areas:<br>
• Accounting and bookkeeping <br>
• Tax services <br>
• Registrations and compliances<br>
• Business planning <br>
• General business advisory services<br>
• Content write-ups<br>
• Entrepreneurship training<br>

to

Code: 
A team of 4 staff and associate consultants is led by Oliver Chanyau to provide management consultancy in the following areas:
<ul>
<li>Accounting and bookkeeping </li>
<li>Tax services </li>
<li>Registrations and compliances</li>
<li>Business planning </li>
<li>General business advisory services</li>
<li>Content write-ups</li>
<li>Entrepreneurship training</li>
</ul>

If simple stuff like that isn't making sense to you then go read EVERYTHING at http://www.w3schools.com/ or google "learn html"
 
With the others here - its a very basic website that looks like it may have been done in MS word.

If you want ill also rebuild it for you, just pm me. or get your dad to pm me haha.
 
I'm helping him for mahala

I'll probably finish it either tonight or tomorrow, I still need to do the services section.
 
Thor187 said:
Hehehe

Here:

Mordor.co.za

I will do the services section tomorrow, way too tired to continue now
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That's pretty good for a quick fix up. And miles better than what the site currently has.
 
Just change the text font to a nice google font. Standard fonts in 2015 look outdated
 
skimread said:
Just change the text font to a nice google font. Standard fonts in 2015 look outdated
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I am going to when the site is done then I will focus on the aesthetics. I am going to use Roboto most probably
 
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