Just a casual blogging website about my fashion and interests, any advice?

The first point to be aware of is that your site doesn’t work with JavaScript disabled, which is not good practice. It is also very JS-heavy; the scripts are adding huge bulk to your pages. For example, on this page: http://accentsandedges.com/blog/2016/4/18/2bimyf66houfbeyje3tsgww2fh48nb

It’s full of large images, which one would expect to have quite large file sizes - yet they’re outweighed by the size of the scripts. For such a simple page, that seems to me quite ridiculous. I realise you may be limited by the facilities offered by Squarespace, but if you want this to be anything more than a hobby, it might be worth thinking again how you approach this.

The navigation of your site requires a lot of scrolling, because of the size of the images, and it is not always clear where links go. This is especially true of the small images which look like a thumbnail gallery, but which lead to instagram.

Most of your images have no alt text, or inappropriate alt text, such as alt="DSC_4730.jpg". Alt text is important for those who cannot access the images for whatever reason, or for search engines. See http://webaim.org/techniques/alttext/ and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3NbuDpB_BTc for more information.

You also need to pay attention where you have text overlying an image, as it is sometimes difficult or impossible to read. e.g.

There is very little actual text on your pages, which rely mainly on multiple large images. This will not help you rank well in search engines and get found by people (assuming that’s what you want).

I hope that doesn’t sound too negative, and has given you some useful pointers for improvement.

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