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Self Coded Landing Page feedback

As the title says, I coded my first own website - although it's not done, far from it, just wondering what you think? What could I improve on in terms of placement etc.

milestonehackers.com

HTML/CSS/JS/Firebase for those wondering.

on November 29, 2019
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    How much content do you expect to have? Is it in the thousands? What's your expected time for the updates to be progressed to the website. You can have a static website with Gatsby hosted by Netlify and powered by a headless CMS such as Contentful(or wordpress endpoint). It will load extremely fast, however, build time may take a few minutes for changes to be made and it depends on your websites complexity.

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      I plan to expand the content quite a bit. At this point I wouldnt say 1,000s as that s far away.
      I really wanted to focus on coding everything myself, and still want to head in that direction.
      I appreciate your reply, thank you.

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        You still do code and you don't have to maintain the backend service(API). You only code the frontend and there is a neat ecosystem around gatsby such as image optimization.

        Oh, did I mention it would cost you almost nothing!?

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          Yup, gatsby is amazing.

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          I'm obviously new lol. Thanks for that info, I'll check it out!!

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    Great start, I'd recommend making it mobile responsive from the get go. On average about 75% of all internet traffic is through mobiles

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      Thanks, I realized halfway through, I should have started with mobile, it was a pain to go back and figure out the responsive stuff. Thanks for the tip.

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    It's good to learn how to code your own site. Two things that I would work on improving if I were you are the alignment of things on the page, and load performance. Use developer tools to see what's taking a long time to load. I have https://lionstoothsoftware.com loading pretty quickly (e.g. load smaller background images at narrower browser widths using CSS media queries).

    Oh, and you need to close the parenthesis in the first paragraph.

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      Oh thanks, I will take a look at all that. I suspect the logo is taking some bandwidth as it high KB's but I shrunk it down.