[Help] Need some advice

[G.Ashwinkumar]

Sorry for such a long post this is the shortest i could make it!

Hi guys as many do know about me i'm 17 years old. I'm studying right now but started loving to work with websites recently. My uncle has a local business up and running here in Tamilnadu(India) and i thought that i'll build him a site for free and gain more experience before i start to sell my services(as of now my skills are just rubbish!). So i just built him a site pretty quick, but it is totally messy, things are not looking good and i need a bit of advice and help!

Ok so let me just give a little bit of intro on what his business is based on. He has a workshop and makes Jigs,Fixture and sub assembly parts from supplying components to tailor made individual customers. As of now he has a few machines and those are Argo Milling Machine with DRO,Latest Surface Grinding Machine,High Capacity Lathe Machines and full sized milling machines. So i think you guys would understand what his business is and guide me accordingly.

As of now he has some pretty decent orders flowing from reputed companies like Pricol,CRI pumps(these are some good local companies).The site i'm talking about is www.sriengineeringworks.in Just visit the site and you would notice that i've completed all parts except the products page for which i just get no idea on how to approach it! You would also notice that the sites load speeds are just pathetic(because of large images) and would love to know of ways to improve the load speeds.

Guys also go through the site and give your valuable suggestions.I think i've mad a pretty good theme choice and it is the divi theme(responsive) that i'm using. I've also setup Cloudflare CDN and i've also compressed the image with smush.it. I've no coding experience or knowledge whatsoever but i'm ready to learn whichever to complete this project(not the whole language only the part that i need to get this site ready).

About seo i can get about 10-15 niche related high pr sites manually but i'll do it after the site is ready.I'll also ask my uncle to blog so that he just generates more content and traffic naturally flows in. Also even if 5 potential customers see the site and place a request and even if one of them clicks it should be worth more than a lakh rupees. Also prices are not fixed and the customer has to say what he wants and manually the pricing will be followed by my uncle.

Guys i'm doing this project free of cost so i can't invest in hiring a designer and importantly i want to design it(to know how the actual process goes and learn from my mistakes).

Have i missed anything?

[activ_x]

On Shanti G.Ashwinkumar

For a 17 year old kid, I think this is absolutely fabulous, and congratulations by the way!
Only good things can come of this going forward.

As for your site, I think there's still more work to be done, the site's Meta tags..title for starters, you have it as SEW - Home or something... what is that? How do search engines even begin to index a title like that?
There's a reason K.I.S.S. (Keep It Simple Stupid) works... don't try to re-invent the wheel... simply find a good "responsive" theme or something right here on BBHF and use that.
Don't go all fancy.. if in doubt, google your uncle's business and see what the competition are doing.

You want people to come to your uncle's website and hopefully give you their details or purchase... simple as that.
The site should be user friendly, have a good sitemap and "About us" and "Contact Details," that's it.

As for SEO, a LOT has changed in the World of SEO over the last few years... not sure about how Google and other major search engines view this subject in India... elsewhere you have to know what you're doing, otherwise you could tank that website and never see it rise to the top of the search engines again.

I would be very careful about building backlinks from forums and other properties that have been spammed to death by other so-called seo professionals.

Other than that.. Keep at it kiddo.. you deserve a pat on the back.

Namaste.

[rk113]

Take your site off wordpress, you so not need it. Tis a static site and it is better to serve regular html (5) possibly a bootstrap template you could easily find for free... And trust me, your site is not content based as the industry / your uncles business isn't, so though a good start in the right direction the site lacks vision, focuses on everything and nothing at the same time.

Flat design with pics of the facility / team would work well ... So throw off wordpress. start from scratch.

AND I'M d*** SURE YOUR UNCLE WONT BLOG, EVEN IF HE DID HE'D GET PISSED AFTER A WHILE.
SO WORDPRESS, BIG NO NO...

[G.Ashwinkumar]

(10-19-2014 02:34 AM)activ_x Wrote:  On Shanti G.Ashwinkumar

For a 17 year old kid, I think this is absolutely fabulous, and congratulations by the way!
Only good things can come of this going forward.

As for your site, I think there's still more work to be done, the site's Meta tags..title for starters, you have it as SEW - Home or something... what is that? How do search engines even begin to index a title like that?
There's a reason K.I.S.S. (Keep It Simple Stupid) works... don't try to re-invent the wheel... simply find a good "responsive" theme or something right here on BBHF and use that.
Don't go all fancy.. if in doubt, google your uncle's business and see what the competition are doing.

You want people to come to your uncle's website and hopefully give you their details or purchase... simple as that.
The site should be user friendly, have a good sitemap and "About us" and "Contact Details," that's it.

As for SEO, a LOT has changed in the World of SEO over the last few years... not sure about how Google and other major search engines view this subject in India... elsewhere you have to know what you're doing, otherwise you could tank that website and never see it rise to the top of the search engines again.

I would be very careful about building backlinks from forums and other properties that have been spammed to death by other so-called seo professionals.

Other than that.. Keep at it kiddo.. you deserve a pat on the back.

Namaste.

Thanks a lot! Literally no competition from any other competitors in terms of web presence.This is more of a word of mouth business and you really cant expect orders anywhere outside India. Its just that many are in this business and even if we get orders from outside our state(Tamilnadu) the transport charges are gonna be high compared to the product pricing. Web presence was never his idea but mine! Any help appreciated. (The site might look shabby now but i'm trying to change it altogether) His company name is SEW-Sri Engineering Works and he basically does Jigs,Fixtures and Sub assembly parts for companies like Pricol,LGB,CRI etc. Thanks a lot for your kind words!