Comment by Marco Alka on "How could I improve my site ?"

Here is what I think about your site from the perspective of a potential customer:

what is GitHub?
who is that guy? I cannot see an introduction. Seems untrustworthy
what does he mean by "get a quote"? Quote of what?
what are those pictures? Technologies? Of what?
what is a stack?
what does he mean by legacy adaption? Is he refering to my site, which is good and I paid someone a thousand bucks just yesterday? How dare he?
what is Elm Lang?
what is SPA?
what is Node.JS?
what is CSS?
what is a frontend build routine?
he wants to travel? That's bad. Will he have time for me? Will he just take my money and run off?

Here is what I think from the perspective of me:

Create a more welcoming entrance. Add a picture of yourself. Add a short (read as SHORT) description of who you are. Google for best practices of self introduction.
Do not throw technologies at your customers, but solutions. Customers in general don't know and don't care about how you do stuff.
Don't denote your customer's stuff as "legacy". Tell them that you can extend their existing software and sites.
I don't think it's a good idea to leave so much space on the left while squeezing all the content on the right. Go for a more balanced approach. Do you know, why today's screens are very broad, but not very high? That's because of how we humans see. Go for a broader design instead of lots of scrolling.
You should use the most space for what you want to sell (instead of the technologies)
Does your location matter if it is not accurate? Who is your target audience? Local people? Someone who drops you a mail from someplace else in the world?
You need a stronger contrast for your text vs. the background in some places

Since you only asked about content, I did not take a look at your code.

Hey @maruru , many thanks to you :) I agree with most of your points, except for example the traveling point and legacy. I mean that's is just what I am doing, if customers can't understand that, then they are the wrong customers anyway. It's always better to have less more good customers, then to have many 'bad' customers. Also I should have said that my target audience is more the techie ones from a B2B standpoint, not the opposite.

p.s: The code is fine, don't mind that ;-)

@eimfach

if customers can't understand

It's not about understanding words in that case, but about feelings you invoke. I don't get how there can be "good" or "bad" customers? They are all potential customers and either you pull them in in a professional way or it will be your loss, since they will just go to someone else instead of paying you.

The code is fine, don't mind that

No code is fine. Not even the code of the guy who programmed for the past forty years. There is and will always be ways to improve. To err is to be human an a lot is to be learned from it.

I don't get how there can be "good" or "bad" customers?

I won't get into too much details here, but it's not that easy as you might think. Customers are just also people, and all people have their goals, habits and traits. This is why you have a target audience, because you could never ever satisfy all your potential customers who arrive at your site. The difference between "good" or "bad" is for example that there are also customers who will always complain, never really say what they want, or want to dump prices all day long. I get your point about the feeling that also matters, but people in my audience do know that for example problems with legacy code can be a serious problem. Other people might not of course, but then it is not my target audience. I am only looking for customers who are really interested in their own products and want me to help them or build them, you know?

@eimfach ah, I see! But then I know what your site is lacking! It is not conveying that passion! Write about successful projects of yours which got you deeply involved. Try to get feedback from your past project partners about the project time and present them as direct quotes with name and project on your site. Make the people see that what you want is a deeper partnership than just "I will make your site for you with the here presented technologies". Bring in more of a human factor :)

@maruru yes, I think that's it :)

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