thank you for building this website.

some criticism:

• please remove blinking from header. IMO - it's annoying

• make header menu font colour more readable

• add ability to open pages in new tabs for carousels

• first items in both carousels for a some reason not clicable (inside #display).

• following this link i see no content https://www.esmrdiyvapes.com/mr-smiths-house-of-aroma

• not sure what should be here, but hide this content instead of displaying error message if something can't be loaded (if something should be loaded remotely - you can set display: none to tag and make it visible if request will not fail)

    <span id="comp-j12mdaiounavailableMessageOverlaytext" class="s9unavailableMessageOverlaytext" data-reactid=".0.$SITE_ROOT.$desktop_siteRoot.$SITE_FOOTER.1.1.$comp-j12mdaio.0.0.2.0">We're sorry, this content cannot be displayed. Please try again later.</span>
  

upd:

it was my adblocker. adblocker blocked iframe. use this to hide error message:

    #SITE_FOOTERinlineContent > div > div { display: none }

"open sans", sans-serif;

Ok I'll bite. What's the point? All the actual recipes link off-site to elr or alltheflavors. The youtube reviews are off-site and not even embedded in the page. The recipe "reviews" that are actually on the site are all one-line "knocked it out of the park" or "nailed the profile." The little content there is is difficult to navigate on the front page or utterly buried in the "flavor book". The weird pulsing menu at the top screams geocities and the leader image is stretched and doesn't fit right.

Sorry man, A for effort but I don't see a lot of value there. Yet?

If I were you I'd have a syndication style blog on the main page with a chronological list of all the most recent updates. Have actual content for display right there on the page for people to read.

Thanks for offering something up to help out the community.

To put it lightly, it certainly needs some work.

Its not amazing, but this is the site I've built myself.

Here are some criticisms I can come up with;

>Lose the "over screen" on the recipes pages. Just make a list with links. That extra click is noticeable.

>Like others have mentioned, lose the flashy banner. It screams early internet.

>The banner is pretty rough. Very low res. Here's something I whipped up. Certainly not a finished product, but much cleaner. Feel free to use it or ask for alterations, I'd love to help. Personally, I think banners are a little outdated.

>Your review page has grey boxes around each post. That's a no go.

>On the review page, try to stick to one justification and layout. Either put the author on the left of the image, or the right. Personally, I'd lose the author image, and just have it be title, image, author text.

>Same goes for the flavor book page.

>Toss the facebook button at the bottom of the screen, it throws off the flow of things.

>On the reviews themselves, it looks like your text is the same color as your background. I thought things were just loading slowly.

>I'm not so sure on the page hit counter. Personally, I'd lose it.

Like I said, if you need help with anything, I'd be glad to lend a hand!

Bites tongue. Gets back to coding PHP.

The concept of what you're trying to do is good, but I think you need to brush up on some graphics & web design courses. I hope this doesn't sound harsh, I do like the idea, but you need to invest some more time into the design portion. Lynda is a great place to get started and learn design tips such as color scheme, layout, etc.

Some honest critiques.

• The layout mixed with the flashing header seems almost chaotic and makes me feel lost.
• There are no links for the first two images on the home page.
• I'm unsure of what the counter is, visitor count maybe? Regardless it adds onto the chaotic element of not knowing what is going on.
• The layouts for the flavor menu's don't blend with the site. It's a white background with small gray squares, with more white backgrounds inside the images with little to no text.
• I clicked thru and wound up on a blank page several times, not even sure where I was 90% of the time honestly.

I understand the feeling of wanting to go ahead and launch a website ASAP, but it might be best to go into a re-design phase for a few months and develop a fairly large amount of content/functionality first. I think once you spend some time on getting the basics of lay out and design down you'll be able to make great progress though. Best of luck to you friend!

Thank you very very much for being able to recognize what is lacking and filling the need of what so many people have been looking for , which is a site focusing on recipe reviews.

No matter how much you search for recipe reviews the reality is that the net does not offer a website that has an abundance of them.

There is either no reviews , one or two reviews and on occasion some recipes that have between 10 & 20 but those are exceptionally rare.

Wishing you much success on this .

Although it sounds great, eventually you'll be over-whelmed with schedules, time and equipment. If it grows, which I hope it does, it'll need more time, more people, more money. Then patreon becomes a membership, yadayadayada. I love these new sites popping up all over, can't get enough. But going with the premise the best part is it's free, I feel is time Limiting

More content, and more different views of content is good for the community!

I would also maybe have a way of emailing you for future recommendations so people don't have to keep coming back to this post as it will eventually be buried.