Freelance Videographer here! Stuck in building my website. Please advice

[euphorion]

Hey folks,

My goal as a freelance videographer is to represent myself and invite future customers to watch my demo reel and get in touch with me.

I build the whole website from scratch by myself. This took me a lot of effort, time and energy. The CMS is Wordpress/ Elementor.

Link: https://mediacolonia.rf.gd

(the TLD is because of the free hoster I’m using. I will migrate the whole project as fast as possible. Beware: The content is in german language)

I think the direction is not that bad. Still a lot to improve/bad logo, missing pictures ect..
But all in all to me the design feels poor, without a structure or guidance. I would love to point me out a direction, some useful inspiration how to finalize it. How to improve the overall experience.

I welcome constructive critisicm, as I am not a professional designer , but love to dig in to these kinds of projects by myself. Please dont be to harsh with me, this is my very first attempt of building a whole website by myself.

Thanks for your attention and your energy <3

[Corobori]

For a 1st attempt of building a website it looks way better than mine !!

1. A bit slow on loading

2. The footer is way to big and very hard to read (the linkedin link doesn’t work)

3. The animations in “About” are also slow in loading. The text shouldn’t be justified, the word spacing make it hard to read, especially on a small screen, see below the print screen with the huge space between “Als gelernter” and also the movement when hovering the text is a bit annoying (for me)
   

   

4. The Orbit font takes ages to come up whereas the Lekton no.
   Perhaps coming from the fact that you’re loading Orbit like this http://mediacolonia.rf.gd/wp-content/uploads/elementor/google-fonts/css/orbit.css?ver=1748544874
   and not with https://
   Where Lekton is loaded with https
   https://mediacolonia.rf.gd/wp-content/uploads/elementor/google-fonts/css/lekton.css?ver=1748557822

[euphorion]

Thanks buddy for kind words. Will try to speed up the points you mentioned. Any further design recommendations?

[aliamaar161]

Structure & flow: Try organizing content with clearer sections (like About, Portfolio, Contact).

Visuals: Use high-quality images and consistent spacing to enhance professionalism.

Logo: A clean, simple temporary logo can already elevate the look.

Inspiration: Check out other freelance videographer sites on platforms like Behance or Dribbble.

You’re on the right track — keep refining it step-by-step!

[mmhaideralizamann]

bro i suggest you to hire an seo expert and paid him to make your website completely optimized according to Search Engine rules. If you want, i also know many real seo experts

[m_hutley]

because “yo bro i know a guy” is definitely something you want to hear on the internet, when you’re still designing your site, not at the “optimizing” level.

[mmhaideralizamann]

i’m talking about as a whole. Optmizing, designing. complete onpage, techncial, offpage seo

[DaveMaxwell]

Interesting there’s a discussion because this is what I see…