Requesting feedback on my new site, Orchestrated Fiction.

Any feedback at all would be greatly appreciated. A designer, I am not.

Overall thoughts on content are also welcome. 🙂

Site is here: www.orchestratedfiction.com

I see banner image, took 2-3 seconds to load, you can consider compress it to increase load speed

Thank you for the feedback

I updated all the images on my site to the recommended 500 KB or less.

Would still love an other feedback anyone has. Especially on design and/or best practices that I might be missing.

Hi @JeffWeber!

Nice artwork and interesting concept.

Update the favicon at the top with one that's unique to you instead of the default Squarespace.

The About page and the Blog are the same info... I would just remove the Blog and keep About.

The site loaded just fine for me, so decreasing the image sizes helped.

I would remove the dates from the Stories page. People are sometimes quick to dismiss something that they consider 'old' (could be one week...or one month). By removing the dates, it keeps the content relevant and 'fresh'.

Naming your images correctly and giving them alt tags will help to rank higher in Google. To name them, each word should be separated with a dash (this-is-a-picture.png instead of thisisapicture.png).

You need a footer! You can include the links in the top nav in the footer and any contact info, social media, logo, etc.

I would also consider adding a newsletter form so you can grow your email list.

Here's a couple of blog posts that might be helpful. This one is part 1 in a series on blogging that you might find applicable to your Stories page. This other one is 13 Beginner Mistakes to Avoid (like the favicon) that you might find helpful.

Feel free to holler back if you have questions. I'm happy to help.

Thank you so much for the detailed feedback. I'll get to work incorporating your suggestions! Much appreciated.

@JeffWeber You're welcome! 🙂

BTW, I  decided to keep the About page and the Blog. The Blog will be used for  posts about how I'm making the stories. The fist Welcome post will get pushed out as new posts come in so the duplication won't be so obvious.

Thanks Again.