Okay so Photoshop has this option called Save for Web and Devices. Open your image in Photoshop. Then run Save for Web and Devices. I think the problem is that the image itself is high res and high dimension. If you can open a new Photoshop file in the exact size you want. You should be able to reduce the size. Try to keep it max 100KB
Alright, Iâll bite: You already lost me a bit with this comment. I donât know about most other people here, but negative feedback =/= trolling. At the worst, said feedback is presented poorly and non-constructively. But if youâre putting out a product for the world to use, everyone isnât going to shower you with praise. I know, it sucks as a creator to see it, but sometimes it will be valid complaints said less than politely. Doesnât make it less valid. Maybe donât ask for criticism and come in with that mindset, is what Iâm saying.
But let me still offer up some feedback of my own:
I agree with @binjoadeniran, you need to tell us upfront what the site is about.
For what itâs supposed to do, it works well enough, but it needs a lot more polish.
The price on the first item is cut off, and will probably be worse if it was a larger figure.
You might want to look at having prettier links and better page titles. For instance, clicking into a project takes me to this url http://build.com.ng/#/browse/-JuKk1VyRZOe_4SogXJC and a couple of things happen: a) The pageâs title (on the browser) doesnât change, which might be confusing from a bookmark perspective b) The âdonât click more than onceâ popup shows up when the page loads for no reason.
The modal for âHow it Worksâ is wayyy too long. My resolution is really high and I still had to scroll. Youâre better off putting it on its own page. While weâre at it, you need to work on the siteâs copy and grammar.
The site logs you out super quick. I came here to write something and was logged out by the time I went back.
It would be good if you could make usernames clickable i.e profiles so people can see what else the person has done.
also, about the popup, i couldnât get modal to submit my forms which usually resulted in double postings and frustrations. so it serves for now, as a neccesary evill.
I canât be the only one who finds the title of this thread brilliant. Click bait without seeming like click bait. Good luck on the project. I like the name build.com.ng but not so much buildninja. Focus on building the supply side of your marketplace (and on just a few skills). Youâll find that if itâs functional, people will use it. And just keep improving. Take all the criticism in stride. Make a list of everything said here, and just knock them out one by one. There are many people attempting to fill this space so move fast.
You did a pretty good job in the design of the freelance writing site which your site links to. So that means youâre not a total stranger to good Ui/ux deaign. I think the concept of the site is alright but more work needs to be put in making the obvious facts very obvious.
@hienyimba Iâm just curious as to what some of your thought processes are behind the idea. Why this idea? Why now? What are your thoughts on product vs building marketplace? How do you differentiate between yourself and competitors? Would be interesting to hear what you think.
Its a tough world out here - donât ask to be treated differently.
Criticisms are good and bad. Good - if you can differentiate the constructive ones from the destructive ones. Bad - if you let it affect your heart and not your methods.
Creating is never easy but talking is. Those guys you call trolls donât build anything thatâs why they have time to destroy everything verbally.
Work on design - its easy. Search. Find . Observe. Radar is growing here in Nigeria. Quora is a big place also.
Reach out. Donât suffer in silence. I have learnt more from reaching out to top professionals than watching a long Youtube tutorial. If you need to speak with the top Engineering guy at Interswitch - send him an InMail on LinkedIn.
An online business is more than a website. There are processes involved, systems that should work; knowing when and how all these fit in could help your next project.
Be more confident in your work. No one knows it all, so you donât have to be intimidated by any one or anybody here,
@Onyeka pretty much covered most of what I was going to say.
I used my phone and some of the links do not work outright on mobile. E.g. the browse page.
But the main issue is, it doesnât say what you do on the front page. In one small sentence can you tell your visitors what you do?
Well done though, the fact that you keep building even after a few failed projects is a very good sign of a bright future.
Diverging a bit, I wonder if thereâs an app developers can embed to rate a site in beta.
Like rate it on:
UX
UI
Copy
Better/worse than competitor
Etc
Yeah you should be. Your site is a disaster. Iâm not sorry.
Shame is good in this case however. Shame implies that you have a idea(?) of what is acceptable in terms of UI, UX and product delivery and can mentally compare your product to standards. That is HUGE.
In addition to all of the above, however, Iâll like to add that going forward, your use of your personal account number is a big no. The least you could do is open a seperate coporate account (maybe Build Ng) or something.
Sratch that. The LEAST you could do is integrate some payment system into your website like your competitors(?) probably have and your potential users probably expect.
Last I checked, people, while browsing the internet, dont just get up to âquickly pay for something at the bankâ and come back.
