Vincent Travers

Im sure you will find a plugin for Wordpress that will do what you want. Wordpress is easy to use and well documented CMS so setting up and configuring shouldn't be too difficult. Is there a particular niche that your targeting? There are already many business listing services like what you have described. What would make yours different? I know that was not the topic of the post, im just intrigued, but forgive me if im being nosey. All the best Vince

Well done for giving it a go. Web Design can be a very challenging but also rewarding hobby. The first time I loaded your site it was very slow. I ran the Pingdom test and the result was about 7 seconds. I have performed another Pingdom test and your site loaded in less than 3 seconds. I believe the host is the problem. I also note that you are using Visual Composer for WordPress. If you are using a page builder is there any need for the theme? You could use a lightweight basic theme although I do believe the server is the issue. A few other things you may want to think about. Your site only uses 2 colours, green and white. There is a lot of white space. In your logo, you also have blue, it may be worth thinking of adding the blue to some elements to break up the green and white. The images at the top of the pages don't stand out much. Have you tried these as full width? Have you tried to use some backgrounds colours to some of the sections to break up the design? I think you have made a start, and with a bit more time and practice could produce some nice websites. Is your service £29pm a real service you have sold to anyone or just something you have made up for designing this site? My personal recommendation for web hosting is Siteground, whats your budget? How much do you already pay? All the best Vince

Why would you advise against using animations? Subtle animations add to a website's design and feel. I'm not suggesting every element be made to bounce in and blink, nor am I suggesting using Flash. Just a few slide ins when the sections come into view.

@DesignLab360 I have taken a look at your design and would like to give some constructive feedback. The design is clean and has the elements for a basic business one-page website. I have noticed that you have not included a footer, was this deliberate? The typography isn't catchy, in fact, the text looks lost, I would find some other fonts to use, or at least increase the font size and make it stand out a bit. You haven't used any of the load animations that are available in Elementor, maybe you could use some slide in left and slide in right so when the user scrolls to a section the content has a slide in animation. If you are looking to market the theme, I would replace the placeholders with the actual images. Also, your button designs are not consistent. The buttons on the products have a border radius, but the read more button in the about company section doesn't. Keeping them consistent may look better. All in all its a good start, I would encourage you to carry on and refine the design. It would be difficult to market the theme for sale, there are lots of themes out there, but after a bit of refinement, it could be used as an addition to your portfolio. Hope this helps. Vince