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I think the most sensible thing to do is to part ways. Doesn't sound like much of a friend!

Every single time! Anybody know what's wrong with me?

Completely agree with the following: If you are re-developing your website, perhaps now would certainly be a good time to re-evaluate whether Squarespace will be able to fulfil your wants and needs - whether this is now or in 12 months time. Despite the fact it is very easy to use, I am extremely curious as to why you chose it as your preferred platform? A big plus with platforms such as Shopify and Magento is that, unlike WooCommerce, Squarespace, etc. they were both built specifically for eCommerce. It's always good to ensure the platform you're using will be able to scale with your business. Yeah, I see it now. I don't agree that I should have to add a product to cart in order to see it though. It feels a little displaced - is there a reason why it does not appear regardless? I'm guessing this is default behaviour on the Squarespace themes? Awesome - it's well worth the cost. It'll likely end up paying for itself in the long run. I think you could certainly benefit from some kinda consultancy. Your pages need a thorough examination in my opinion. I will try and provide a little more insight if I have some free time.

I'm not entirely sure how well integrated you can get with Squarespace, but services like MailChimp allow you to create some kind of 'abandoned cart workflow' which you can automate to send email incentives to the user in order to gain their custom. See http://kb.mailchimp.com/automation/create-an-abandoned-cart-workflow You might also benefit from services like Hotjar which allow you to track (and view videos of) your users' entire journey right from their landing page to checkout. You can even create things like funnels which enable you to see where users are dropping off. Combine all the really useful insights they give you and it will better help identifying the potential problems. I believe Google Analytics allow something similar with the funnels - could be wrong though! Also be aware of simple things like links to your basket (could this be a reason for so many abandoned carts?) and account area. These are critical in order to create as little friction as possible for the customer and ensuring their journey is as smooth and painless as possible. Take a look at other, successful eCommerce websites and literally copy what they do. It's likely they're doing it very well.

I'd say whether or not it's worth doing so highly depends on budget. Magento is a powerful platform (albeit somewhat convoluted) but if you're going to get a Magento build, it's worth doing it properly - and that's gonna cost. That's not to say you and your team don't have the capacity to do so yourselves. What's the startup type?

I've never used it, but Monit (https://mmonit.com/monit/) looks exactly like what you're looking for. There's a great tutorial from Digital Ocean too! https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-install-and-configure-monit

Lots of key elements are missing! No unique selling points No call-to-actions Where's all your important pages? Etc... I recommend you compare it against other big eCommerce websites first. You have to understand that they're built the way they are for a reason. Mimic their structure. Perhaps when you are satisfied that it looks and performs like other online shops, ask people again?

Did you check out the sample grunt file in my post? To make it easier, why don't you tell us what tasks you're trying to run and maybe then we can point you in an even better direction. The Grunt docs are a great starting point though!

+1 for Gulp! If you wanna check it out: https://github.com/gulpjs/gulp/blob/master/docs/getting-started.md Yeah as Robert said, you need an entire working gruntfile. I was under the assumption you had one, minus the default task. http://gruntjs.com/sample-gruntfile - here's your starting point. Let us know how you get on!

Click the link to donate as if you were someone else and you'll see what they see. If it does show your primary email address, is there any bother in changing your primary to the address that you want people to see?

For sure! You'll need to target the body element. That's generally where the background would be applied.

http://gruntjs.com/creating-tasks#alias-tasks Specifically: grunt.registerTask('default', ['jshint', 'qunit', 'concat', 'uglify']); You'll need to replace the values in the array with the tasks you want to run by default. - http://gruntjs.com/creating-tasks#custom-tasks Or you can do something like: grunt.registerTask('default', 'My "default" task description.', function() { grunt.log.writeln('Currently running the "default" task.'); }); Hope that helps.

Much better. For inspiration, take a look at sites like Site Inspire and Awwwards. Play about with different techniques and try and adhere to similar trends! :-)

Don't see why it's hurting. A little bit of animation makes the page feel more interactive/ alive. On a side note; I would personally increase the contrast between your body text and the containers they reside in.

Perhaps you're not ready for a full time position yet? Why not hone your skills to a point where you actually do fit the criteria for the roles you're looking for? Take all feedback from employers and the people over on WDF as a positive and make changes to your website to reflect what has been said. You could even take it offline. If there's no portfolio then you can't get bad marks for it.

It could definitely be designed in a more engaging way.

Could you post a link to your page? Or upload a jsfiddle/ codepen of your code?

From what I have observed (and what others are also saying) it's pretty common to see work slow around the Christmas season. That being said, it is entirely dependant on your market. For some businesses, Winter might be their busiest period and so may require lots of marketing materials and such.

It's a little difficult to determine exactly what you're looking for but I figured I might be able to get you on the right path. If I understand correctly you want to have some content, specifically an image, take up the full width/ height of the viewport (the portion of the screen that is currently visible). You can take advantage of some relatively new units - vw and vh (viewport width/ height). Simply apply width: 100vw and height: 100vh to a block element to have it span the full width/ height of your viewport.

Definitely recommend stripping out only the animations you require (if you're using something like animate.css). You could even go one step further and do away with libraries such as wow.js - they're totally unnecessary. Here's a great tutorial on how to handle triggering animations on scroll.

There's no real reason to do so. If you take a look at your existing site (re-size the browser) it kinda already is responsive, just not entirely. Bootstrap handles of lot of fluid functionality - I'm assuming the additional markup that isn't using standard bootstrap classes hasn't been accounted for.

I think the focus on hidden content is ensuring that it's not duplicate.

Nice idea, but I would recommend against using an actual <img> to make the slider responsive. Instead there's a neat trick where, if you set each slide to position: absolute and give the wrapper a :before/ :after pseudo element with a padding-bottom/ padding-top whose value is a percentage which resembles the same aspect ratio of the slider images, it scales in exactly the same way. It's a little fiddly getting the right percentage, but it's worth it. You could even go further and add a min-height to the slider so that images don't appear to 'letterbox' when the browser's width is rather small. This would require centering (and therefore cropping) the slides, however, so would require careful consideration in regards to art direction, etc. I realise that's a mouthful, so I whipped up a little CodePen example and you can see it in action here. Also, I was always under the assumption that it was bad practise to use background images for stuff that could otherwise be considered content.

Several good points yet, and though you are using bootstrap, nobody has mentioned responsive. If you want to increase conversions then number one on your list should be to ensure your site is mobile friendly. A huge (and growing) number of visitors will be using a mobile, and if they can't use your site on their device then they're gonna hit the back button.

I don't think it's a question of whether it'll 'catch on'. It has, and it is somewhat widely used. It solves many, many headaches developers have (including equal heights, re-ordering content, masonry grids, etc). The problem comes down to support. A quick look at support for Flexbox (see below) shows pretty good coverage, except for IE. In the case of Flexbox, it's generally up to you to make up your own mind as to whether you should roll with it. There was a fallback for the original Flexbox specification, but seeing as it has changed dramatically, it no longer works. There's another in the works, but I wouldn't have a clue when that'll materialise. Best thing to do is to consider your target audience and whether they'll likely be using a browser that does support Flexbox. Go with the majority.