Finally...our new website is live...what do you think?

[CoffeeShockwave]

Wow awesome-- hope the biz works out for you! Owning a coffee shop/trading biz is my dream..

[Ads]

[Rebecca]

We are a small batch coffee roaster on Whidbey Island in the Pacific Northwest and have recently launched our online shop portion in conjunction to our main website. I also don't have enough posts to provide any links, but the main website is uselessbaycoffee (dot) com and our eshop is shop (dot) uselessbaycoffee (dot) com. Would also love feedback from members and on our videos about roasting and the making of espresso as well, which can be found on our Facebook page - facebook (dot) com/uselessbaycoffee Thanks & Cheers!

[PinkRose]

Hello "Rebecca"

Welcome to the Coffee Forums website.

Thanks for sharing your website and Facebook page information. I'm sure you will be able to post links soon.

Rose

[Rebecca]

Thank you, looking forward to it!

[badmaash]

What is this made on, wordpress?

[IDrinkPurelyCoffee]

Wordpress is a pretty useful tool to get a website up and started. It has its shortcomings, too, esp. with regard to SEO, but there are some very useful plugins to get you started, and some great themes (free & paid).

Kenneth

[JRMobile]

Ellie: It's certainly a great start. I do have some key suggestions though - primarily you should consider simplifying the front page. Ask yourself what you want your visitors to do, and also what your visitors are thinking when they visit. You want less decisions for them, but you also want to simultaneously answer their desires as well as get them to go where you want (which is to your shop to buy coffee). Ideally these two align.

In short: make a simpler home page which features your coffee and how people can get it. Think this: 'one page, one task'


Rebecca: great website y'all have going there - it's clean and easy to navigate. One major caveat: due to the way the website is built, your major key information about the retail business on the front page does not load on mobile. It looks like it's possibly to find by digging around, but you would be turning away the majority of mobile users by not providing a solid solution upfront.

[MorningSunrise]

Ellie, I think you are passionate about your site and the subject matter, but if you intend to make money with it, don't get too excited. Just from a visual point, it's lacking. Don't get discouraged though. Look at your favorite site and try to emulate it. Grab a good latte and keep working.

[CappuccinoMaker]

How long have you been trading ?

[CoffeeMate]

Not Bad, however you might consider making the fonts in the right sidebar a bit smaller and uniformed. Consider using more graphics and even movie clips whedre possible. We are officially a visual society.
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