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  • SME has their blog on the front page. A consulting business (like mine) usually has a value proposition and some links to their blog and testimonials and stuff.

    Does it matter which approach I use for my site? (http://suprpowrs.com)

  • @blairrorani I love your site!

    I would just add a blog as one of the menu options at the top (highlight it with a colour background if you wanted.

    Once you start writing quality blog posts people will find you via search engines, social media, etc.

    Russell

  • @blairrorani I agree with  @russellallert your site is very visually appealing.

    You could consider placing the three most recent blog posts on the home page.

    The pros for this is that your home page gets new content updated automatically whenever new posts are published (good for SEO), and your blog will have more visibility when visitors come to your home page.

    The cons are: might mess with the visual flow of your current home page layout, which is nice the way it is. The home page is suppose to funnel visitors in the direction you want to take them, which currently it does an excellent job of. You would need to ask yourself if visitors seeing blog excerpts distract them away from this or enhance the user experience?

    Note: your footer is not centering under content and is presenting left justified. Add the code bit below to your css file and it’ll fix the issue.

    footer.inner { margin:0 auto; width:960px; }

  • well, after the glowing remarks, I had to see for myself and I agree, Blair, nice website… @blairrorani @juleswebb @russellallert

  • Thanks @deairby @juleswebb and @russellallert for the feed back.

    @juleswebb yes I’m going to have multiple columns in the footer. That is the css for .inner already, it contains several columns which I am yet to populate. Thanks though :)

  • And … my original question was whether to have what I have now .vs no real explanation of a value prop. and just have my blog on the front page like socialmediaexaminer does. I’m guessing because its a blog / online platform vs. a consulting service that SME’s approach makes sense. Is that right?

  • @blairrorani – That’s correct. For SME it works great because that’s what they are, a blog. 

    RE: footer. Not sure I communicated well. I did a screen capture so you could see what I do.

  • This thread has answered some questions for me, too, as I have just started a consultant practice and am about to build a website.  Thanks everyone for your input!


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