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SendHoney.com Part Duex.

So you guys gave me so much amazing feedback last time I'm coming back to the well. I'm specifically interested in your feedback on the second section. I've made it interactive so folks can sign up and set up in one swoop right off of the landing page, but I feel like it's rather ugly.

https://www.sendhoney.com

on December 15, 2019
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    Holy cow this is an amazing service. You're competing against nothing*, basically, and it's a nice story.

    *nothing in the sense that people would rather do nothing than send flowers, though they know it's a good idea. You're really competing against personally coordinating the ordeal, a high mental cost affair.

    My question, making me pause before entering my info into the boxes: do you serve Canada?

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      PS - thank you so much for the feedback. I've been waiting for someone to come along and say what I was thinking. That made my day!

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        You've got something there for sure.

        Mind if I write an article mentioning it?

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          Absolutely not! Go for it. Shoot me the link when you do!

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              Nice! I love this viewpoint of competing against nothing. It's wonderful. We're going to have a link to it on our homepage. Thanks for using us in your writing!

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      US and Canada only at this point =)

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    I'm not the best at frontend things, so I'll leave the feedback to others. But I just wanted to say that I love the idea! :)

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      Thank you! I think it's a winner.

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    Hey Brian, this is such an improvement over the dripping honey. Two things I think will make a big impact:

    1. Less custom fonts. I'd replace everything that is 'Comfortaa' with Open sans. And I'd only use 'Abril Fatface' for headings (which you're mostly doing). With the animation, colors, backgrounds etc., you have a lot of contrast going on and toning down the fonts will help make it easier to read.
    2. Text on the patterned backgrounds are not readable, and the patterns are too big and distracting. White space is nice sometimes. For the "How it works" section, you could just make that background white, then beef up the shadow behind the boxes to make them stand out more. Trying it out in my browser right now, this looks nice and is much much easier to read. Now...the "Wounded Warrior Project" section. Camo is a hard background to put text on. I would make the background a solid color and put a picture next to the text. Perhaps the wounded warrior project logo or a picture of some vets?

    I'm not a designer, but I took a few classes in college. When it comes to non-designers doing design, less is more!

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      Thank you so much for taking time out of your day and away from your projects to toy with my site! I'm doing the same right now - I can't tell you how much I appreciate the direction!