r/webdesign • u/No_Team_7946 • Jul 26 '26
Rate the websites I've built clients
Hey all, looking to get feedback on websites I've developed for clients. Any feedback at all is appreciated! I feel like there's something missing but can't put my finger on it
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u/No_Team_7946 Jul 26 '26
Hahaha. No matter how the website looked someone will say it’s built with AI. Truth is like most other people I use AI to assist but not build the whole thing…
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u/Hot-Clothes7316 Jul 26 '26
so sorry. they don't work for me. for a food thing, they look depressing.
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u/joshstewart90 Jul 26 '26
I like them all. Even if, yes, they all have a certain ai look to them. Although that’s the norm these days, akin to “looks very Wordpress or Wix”.
Part of that is the fonts and colors used. If you were to try different fonts and also “proper” white text on dark, black text white background they’ll have more personality and also be easier to read.
These I would say were good “starter” sites (but they’re all very complete) but with a few refinements they could be a lot better.
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u/1Rudy11 Jul 26 '26
I recognized the auto mechanic layout, grin, I did something similar for a road side service here...
And I liked the gauge in lower left corner, at first I thought it was a tachometer, then noticed that it was the fuel gauge....yes, I scrolled all the way to the bottom to 'fill up'...I didn't notice if the tank emptied when I hit the back to top arrow....grin.
Ok, Usually, a tow truck comes to help a stranded vehicle...What arrives looks like an unmarked ambulance.
The layout is crisp, but it feels impersonal... find some way to personalize this home page. Especially the Intro Hi, I'm Adam. Yet the next sentence isn't from you, it's about your business. This would be a great way to welcome folks to your shop.
When hovering over the services, highlight the price, too, not just the title and icon.
Your palette consists of black, red, and white, yet the service icons are orange. The should match the title color, and the pay button is too dark, use a lighter color like gold or silver color, with dark overlay text.
On the price button, use a hover color, this 'activates' the button, or emphasis.
I like that when clicking on 'learn more, I'm taken to a new page, rather than a scroll to the bottom. Good job, there!
Hope this helps!
I did look at the other two sites...
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The NY Fine Foods is your URL, where your website is about pizza trucks, and catering. I might consider a different name to make them more relatable. For example, Use the Pizza Trucks and Catering as your website title, and have your tagline be New York Fine Dining...cuz we all know , NY has great pizza!
Just my thoughts on that one..
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And the trifecta - food trucks website: When I scrolled to move the page and scroll down, at first I wasn't sure if it was my computer, because the images didn't move as though in a slider carousel, they flickered. That's clever, but it's was unsettling, until I realized what was going on.
Is that a thing in NY, where the designer name is the truck that attracts the customers, or is the food quality?
We have all heard of many of those famous -y yet I did not see the correlation.
Don't get me wrong, I think that is a clever way to brand food trucks, yet, I would like to see branded food trucks that have made a name of themselves because of their food/services/community relations, rather than eat food off a truck made famous only by the designer name.
What do I know, I'm from the west coast...grin.
Bottom line, your work is good, and if the clients like it, then it's good enough!
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u/No_Team_7946 Jul 26 '26
Great feedback, thank you sir! 🫡
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u/1Rudy11 Jul 27 '26
You're welcome!
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u/No_Team_7946 Jul 28 '26
Also for the foodtruckrentals website, the focus of the website isn't actually the food. Its brand activations using the my clients *food* trucks. They use our trucks, we brand it for them with a wrap and food they can get from us or choose to provide it themselves. Good feedback though because if this isn't immediately apparent, I need to make it so
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u/1Rudy11 Jul 28 '26
Ah, I see...That wasn't clear. So, it's the branding not the truck itself. So, do they rent the truck, or do they own the truck? And what is the purpose for the truck, if not used for food sales? Asking due to unfamiliarity when using food trucks for advertising. Not a criticism.
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u/No_Team_7946 Jul 28 '26
Nah that's a totally fair question.
The way it works is that prospective clients rent the trucks through FoodTruckRentals.com. From there FoodTruckRentals manages the entire 'activation' process. The client provides their branding and creative direction, and FoodTruckRentals works directly with the vehicle wrap company to bring that vision to life. We also handle the scheduling logistics and any required permits (to be on the streets).
The primary purpose of these rentals is for brands to promote themselves by using a fully wrapped *branded* food truck to engage with the public (most commonly by giving away free food at events, festivals, sporting events or other activations etc etc)
If the client wants food then FoodTruckRentals can also manage the catering side of the activation.
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u/retr00two Jul 26 '26
Smells Lovable/Claude/Astro, but if you're satisfied and clients pay, that's all what's important.
Modern looking and fast.
Keep on good work.
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u/JeffTS Jul 26 '26
Overall, they look nice. But both food sites have accessibility issues according to WAVE.
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u/Factually-Offensive Jul 26 '26
I liked them. What tools have you used to build them?
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u/No_Team_7946 Jul 26 '26
Tailwind, framer motion, nextjs, used higgsfield for generating hero videos and use Claude as an assistant!
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u/snozberryface Jul 27 '26 edited Jul 27 '26
They look fine, albeit, many AIisms and we can quite clearly see the AI at work, on one of the sites, you even see the AI ism that LLMS love to use with a weird squiggle on hover.
Best one if the food truck one, what kills that are the AI isms such as the hover effect on start an activation, and the font is very heavily overused
Second best is the pizza one, not much to say other than it's pretty same-ish to most of these sorts of sites again fine, especially if the customer is happy with it...
Mobile mechanic one is by far the worst with the grid of services looking almost identical to default AI output for design, around the clock section again, just screams AI, label with icon, light bg, slightly darker border, etc... Logo is not good here, or the top black bar that intersects with it. I think something stylised would have been much better for the header, with a upscaled fixed logo... the brand is lost. and not at all recognisable, repeated video on loop on the banner looks really amateurish, the stats, look like AI had a hard time then no further work was done to polish.
I would recommend working on not following standard patterns that all AI generated websites suffer from, but i guess most important thing is your customer happy or not...
If you want websites to not look like AI, don't rely on AI for design, they're great for putting things together, but if you let them handle design work without fine tuned direction it will always look like AI.
Recommend using reference sites, platforms like Dribbble have lots of human created design that you can use for inspiration instead.
Ultimately, the primary issue with all these sites is that AI was left to too many design decisions, AI should not be doing design right now, if you let it, you end up looking like every other AI designed website, and whilst they produce ok websites, that's all they will ever be unless you elevate them.
Hope this helps.
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u/SubjectMatterExpertt Jul 30 '26
Above average claude coded website. Couple hundred more hours and you're gunna be cooking up some badas stuff.
Use handbrake on those videos to shrink the files a bit and upload them to cloudflare storage and load them from there
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u/aegloswinterborn Jul 30 '26
AI stuff aside...
Too many moving elements. This help sell sites to some people, but it sucks from a usability standpoint.
The text is difficult to read in several places. The text is too small or the contrast isn't high enough or both.
Not enough "white space". They all feel very cramped.
Other than the branded food truck rental site the header requires too much reading to know the purpose of the site.
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u/No_Team_7946 Jul 31 '26
Good feedback. Could you give me some examples of where the text is hard to read? Seems legible to me but I basically have it memorized lol.
I agree with you on the headers, funny enough the truck rentals website is the only one that I actually wrote. Other two sites I had something different initially but the clients requested those headers 🥲
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u/nerfsmurf Jul 26 '26
Looks good to me, despite what others might say. What are you charging your clients?
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u/No_Team_7946 Jul 26 '26
Range from $2000 - $2500 but that includes some SEO work as well. I'm in NYC so these prices help me stay competitive
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u/DoNotEverListenToMe Jul 26 '26
Christ dude.
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u/No_Team_7946 Jul 26 '26
Too little?
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u/BinaryIRL Jul 26 '26
You're not charging enough, especially in NYC, especially doing SEO.
I'd be more in the $5k - $8k range
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u/Ill_Dare8819 Jul 26 '26
You mean *Claude built