Comments on: Why I Spent $25,100 On A New Blog Design

By: brian

brian — Wed, 07 Mar 2018 19:44:36 +0000

Love the new site look and feel, great shots of you too – much more personal.

Will you sell a Social Triggers wordpress theme? 🙂

By: Sareeka Gupta

Sareeka Gupta — Mon, 12 Oct 2015 07:37:28 +0000

New design is good. The design is clean, simple and elegant. The design of blog or website can really change the perception of people.

By: Paris Tuzun

Paris Tuzun — Thu, 16 Jul 2015 16:11:42 +0000

I really dig your new website. As a designer myself I’ve heard of Brian Hoff before, he is an excellent designer and excellent designers like him charge a lot of money but as they say, you need to spend money to make money. A $5,000 website would cost you a lot in the long term not bringing enough ROI and it would possibly damage your reputation. I have a few suggestions: On the homepage in the “Blog Latest” section the circles that contain blog post excepts should be clickable. I hovered over the circle thinking the text was clickable but it wasn’t. Making the entire circle clickable would improve usability. Also, when the text exceeds a certain amount of characters the “Read” link comes on top of the text. One other thing is your navigation menu. The word “Menu” looks a little awkward, normally the hamburger menu is on the top left side or top right side and you also have two “about” links. Other than that everything looks great.

By: Phil Parisis

Phil Parisis — Wed, 01 Jul 2015 11:37:02 +0000

This post took some balls my friend.. I have been a long time lurker/stalker of yours and at the beginning i did feel like you had been repacking (used car salesman) trying to get into the snake-oil marketing game. One day I was reading maybe an email or a blog post of a possible failure/lesson on a launch. You went missing for a few weeks then i started noticing the change.
25K is not on a blog design… its actually your personal brand that had the make over.
Well done…

By: Dewi

Dewi — Mon, 15 Jun 2015 10:27:40 +0000

I am not sure about the price, but the new design certainly is amazing. It has got a print feel to it. I like the choice of colors too.

By: Octarendra.com

Octarendra.com — Tue, 09 Jun 2015 12:11:33 +0000

Its damn, good, actually I’m one of the people who thought that your design is very old, but then again I saw lot of other blogger quoting you, endorsing you..
so I say: its about damn time 😉

By: Anna LovellaVelasquez

Anna LovellaVelasquez — Thu, 04 Jun 2015 17:56:21 +0000

hi, Derek. I’m very new to this blogging and internet marketing thing but I recently learned from Steve Scott that I need to be very clear on what my Most Wanted Response is for my site. If it’s to get people to sign up then I must give people every opportunity to sign up. I’m amazed to see clearly that your most wanted response is get people signing up to your email list…your opt-in it’s everywhere! And you give out several freebies with it. I just joined your list. I was very interested with getting your ebook.. And I got it. Thanks. However, I noticed when I wanted to download another one of your freebie.. It asked me to opt-in every time. Don’t you have a filter for anyone who’s already subscribed to not go through the whole process again..every time?

By: Southern Festival Living

Southern Festival Living — Sat, 23 May 2015 02:39:45 +0000

Derek, you share some good nuggets here. Your web design looks great. I belive if anyone read your approach in articles, that would be able to see.

Youi give us something to think about and institute.

By: Charity Nicole

Charity Nicole — Tue, 19 May 2015 08:44:00 +0000

The last part is so true– it’s so intimidating to look at people in the internet marketing space when you first get started with only a hundred dollars or so, and they have flashy websites with videos that cost a ton of money to make and a customer service team, etc. I started with only ME and I sure didn’t have a lot of money. When I found someone to teach me how to bootstrap and still be profess and amazing, she resonated so deeply with me and I’ll probably buy all of her products for forever… {Star Khechara btw} Anyway, I like the new design A LOT and love your explanation. I love learning your techniques. We don’t have to be perfect to be successful! Thank you for sharing! 🙂

By: Myra

Myra — Tue, 19 May 2015 08:38:46 +0000

I love the website the only thing I think should get some more attention is your menu bar. I think it should be a bit more bold like the rest of this site. The site is bold and full of confidence but the menu bar is a little insipid compared to the rest.

I’m not talking about the word Menu that should change as well. I am talking about the entire Menu bar. 🙂

Apart from that I can see why this site has cost you what you paid for it and it is a job well done!