Service Offering I'll help you set up your website, analytics, basic design, etc.

I suggest calling it 'the thing I've stuck a red ring round in this screenshot'. Looking at your site, I'd call it a header or a menu bar. Evidently they don't.

 

I think I got it. Site Header, apparently.

Yay! Thanks!

 

I visit your site and I'm not nice so I know you're lying Matty.

 

Did you get rid of it? I didn't see any bars today.

 

Yup, got it!

Thanks for checking.

 

There is one major issue with your site and that's page speed.
https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fkhalielawright.com%2F&tab=desktop

You need to optimize your images for web. They're slowing page load times. So visitors may abandon,
not because they don't like your stuff but because it's frustratingly slow.

Optimizing images for web is simply a matter of outputting at a lower quality (72 dpi, reducing file size).
If you're not confident in doing that, maybe ask someone who's handy with Photoshop or Lightroom
(or any other software that gets the job done).

Alternatively, if you're on Wordpress, you could try this compression plugin. Should reduce
your file sizes down by a considerable amount. The free version should serve your needs.
I've used it on many websites - works fine.

Other than that, your website looks elegant. Good luck with it all.

 

To score zero for both Mobile and Desktop on Google's page speed analyzer
is a fair indication of bad performance issues.

It's all round good practice to optimize photos/images for web. Gives the
user a better experience, contributes to a better search ranking, and helps
to keep files sizes down on the back end.

Worth keeping in mind if the website is an important part of your business
strategy.

Further reading:
https://developers.google.com/web/fundamentals/performance/optimizing-content-efficiency/image-optimization
https://moz.com/learn/seo/page-speed

 

Ironically, I've had more "up-time" than google over the past two years.

Actually, it's not. You are falling prey to the fallacy of composition. What is necessary for one website depends on user needs and is not applicable to all websites. I freelance and sell my photographs to magazines. If you compress them, they look like shit. I don't want potential clients looking at my images and saying, "what a grainy, pixelated, piece of shit." Anyone who works in photography knows that bigger files produce higher quality images. To compress them would actually harm my business because the photos would come off as amatureish.

Seeing as Harvard only scored 42/100, and they have a whole tech department to resolve problems, I'm not going to worry about it.

 

I won't argue with that. You obviously know what you're doing. Good luck with it all.

 

I launched this one a month ago, and then took it down three hours later. Currently contains an intro, one article and one photograph. Requires beta readers, and will re-launch given total 100% positive feedback only.

https://pevenseydefender.wordpress.com/

[It was fun to draft, but don't think I could maintain character for a daily post, maybe if I get the sack? Here's to hoping I do get the sack, and on...]

 

I gave it a looky.

I found it most entertaining.
The bit about the Carp was great.

 

Hey, my reader!

Well yesterday I got a post from someone saying they liked my stuff...so...So...re-energised...I am going back to the original site 'drysailorboy.wordpress' to tidy it up - for the world [audience], heh.

 

Yeah, the carp's all right, the rest is just odd