Please review the new website of the London domain summit

[Helmuts]

Hey guys and ladies,

Feedback and constructive criticism is the best thing when starting a new website, and it would be great to receive some valuable feedback from the NamePros community for the website I am doing for the Domain industry summit in London this August.

URL: https://summit.london

CMS: WP
Tickets sold at: EventBrite (sky-high fees, but good additional exposure)
Sponsored passes applications received through the default Contact Form 7. Does the job, though somehow I'm not too happy about the limited information received.

I am working on a sponsorship PDF, most probably the sponsor/exhibitor checkout will be done using WooCommerce + Stripe.

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Not done:
main legal pages (in progress)
seo plugin (metas, etc). will probably use rankmath
sitemaps
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Worried about: too many images, as these result in a heavy website. Will be addressing these at a later stage.

Pingdom report link: https://tools.pingdom.com/#5fc86fd904800000

Any constructive feedback is greatly appreciated as the time is not on our side and wish to be as effective as possible!

Thank you in advance,
Helmuts

 

[maya-zir]

I don't understand the purpose of this site.
Did somebody order you this website and you ask about the design?
Or it is your own project?
But then what can this site be used for after the summit?

The site looks nice on desktop mode and on phone.
The tablet mode is not good - not enough responsive.
The header is not good.
The logo is not good.
The Forum menu is not enough responsive.

 

[MasterOfMyDomains]

Move to promotional section

 

[Helmuts]

I don't understand the purpose of this site.
Did somebody order you this website and you ask about the design?
Or it is your own project?
But then what can this site be used for after the summit?

The site looks nice on desktop mode and on phone.
The tablet mode is not good - not enough responsive.
The header is not good.
The logo is not good.
The Forum menu is not enough responsive.

This is my own project. Trying to get as many ideas as possible - small brainstorming is always good.

Thank you - will check the tablet mode.

The logo will do the job for this year - most probably, next year I will come with something different. Too many websites are not launched just because of not-perfect logos

What don't you like about the header?

Tx

 

[maya-zir]

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Why do you think somebody will visit your site after the summit?

 

[Helmuts]

@maya-zir thank you. got it! tx a bunch!

 

[Helmuts]

had a consultation with a person I know (professionally) who organises small scale (100-200 people) annual webmaster events, and got recommendations:
1) to create a fb group and advertise it on the main page (it appears it is the main place of all the conversations for his attendees)
2) to display prices on the frontpage

.. both done ("check")

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Why do you think somebody will visit your site after the summit?

We will have a gallery of photos and information about the next year's summit (annual event).

 

[Bipul]

Logo & menu are not good

 

[redemo]

First people summit homepage I've seen with no pictures of people on the homepage. You might want to start with some speaker bios.