Does Your Homepage Need a Facelift?
A big part of exiting the matrix and building a life you love to wake up to is finding a job that doesn’t exhaust every fiber of your being, even if that job is not glamorous - like building websites.
When I first started building websites many moons ago, I never thought it would be something that would stick. Probably because I had convinced myself that it wasn’t “cool enough”, “sexy enough” or “artistic enough.”
Because of that resistance, I took a lot of detours.
—> Like starting a series of workshops to empower women.
—> Or co-founding a non-profit which aimed to give underprivileged women financial independence.
—> I even got my Kundalini teacher training online, y’all!
But somehow I always found my way back to draggin’ and droppin’.
Now it’s time to admit that I love what I do!
When I have to troubleshoot or figure out how to meet a client’s needs, it’s like solving a puzzle. But my favorite part is helping a client clarify their ideas or improve their site’s usability.
Like this recent client, an EMDR professional who had upgraded her site from version 7.1 to 7.2 on her own but was surprised when things ended up wonky. Links were broken, her menu bar was missing, and things were catastrophic. Because the registration and payment platform for her EMDR training courses, which cost several thousand dollars, is on her website, she was eager to resolve the matter quickly.
I was able to refresh her home page and make it functional again.
Here’s What the Site Looked Like BEFORE
Here’s What the Site Looks Like AFTER
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I Gave My Blog Page a Refresh
I recently refreshed my blog page on my website and I must say I really like it!
Here’s what it looked like before:
It’s not bad aesthetically speaking, but it wasn’t really practical. It was basically just a gallery of images and blog titles with no real organization. If a visitor wanted to get a feel for my writing and read my latest blog post then it would suffice. But if they wanted to dive deeper and gain insight from my previous posts, from years before, it wasn’t possible. Unfortunately, Squarespace only lets you display 20 blog entries at a time so in actuality there was no real way for my visitors to scroll through past blog posts even if they wanted to…unless I did something about it.
So that’s what I did.
Here’s what the new page looks like:
Here’s what I changed:
I added a search bar so visitors can search for a relevant topic.
I added a blog category section where visitors can click on a category if they want to see specific posts about that topic. Luckily I have been categorizing my posts by topic and tagging my blogs with keywords since the beginning. If you aren’t already doing this, I highly recommend it. It will help a ton if you ever want to organize your blog in the future.
I chose to display only 9 posts at a time. Now that visitors can easily search for topics that are relevant to them I didn’t want to bombard the page with too much information.
That’s it! What do you think?