Gideon Elakpa

Website Designer | I Build & Redesign Sites for Local & Small Businesses + Automated Email Follow-Up

[Gideon Elakpa @GideonElakpa]

Drop your website.

I'll find what's costing you customers.
Free quick look

No pitch

[Gideon Elakpa @GideonElakpa]

@my0bcv How was your customer journey so far?

[Gideon Elakpa @GideonElakpa]

@techjewel @FluentCartWP Not needing to spend hours wrestling with CSS to make review boxes look cohesive is such an underrated benefit. A native, out of the box solution that looks great and ties directly to real orders is exactly what WordPress ecommerce needs. Kudos to the team!

[Gideon Elakpa @GideonElakpa]

The busiest businesses I work with usually have the worst websites. They never had time to think about it, the phone kept ringing.

#ContractorMarketing

[Gideon Elakpa @GideonElakpa]

A website audit takes about an hour. Most businesses wait until something breaks to do one.

#WebsiteDesign

[Gideon Elakpa @GideonElakpa]

Nobody reads your About page timeline. They came to answer one question: can I trust you.

#WebsiteDesign

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@Shopify Excited to see how this improves the daily workflow.

[Gideon Elakpa @GideonElakpa]

Built the site for Dungeon Gym & Fitness Centre in Anguilla. Dark, high-contrast, real training photos, one clear action: call or get directions. No stock, no filler.
#WebsiteDesign

[Gideon Elakpa @GideonElakpa]

Recent project: Megawowfactory, a luxury footwear store. The site had to feel as confident as the shoes, not like a generic template with a logo slapped on.
#Ecommerce

[Gideon Elakpa @GideonElakpa]

Put together a concept for a luxury hair salon. Deep teal, gold accents, one clear booking button. Salon sites live or die on whether the first screen feels premium.
#BeautyBusiness

[Gideon Elakpa @GideonElakpa]

Built a concept for a landscaping company. Deep green branding, real outdoor photos, services split into clear categories instead of one long list nobody reads.
#ContractorMarketing

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#contractors, #SmallBusiness, #LocalBusiness, #Contractor, #RestaurantOwner, #SalonOwner
#BeautyCare
#plumber

[Gideon Elakpa @GideonElakpa]

Drop your website.

I'll find what's costing you customers.
Free quick look

No pitch

[Gideon Elakpa @GideonElakpa]

More than half your traffic is on a phone, standing outside, in a hurry. Tap-to-call numbers. Big buttons. Fewer form fields. Design for that as the default, not the edge case.
#ContractorMarketing

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@KatherineN41509 Hi Katherine, The Best of Me has a nice concept, collagen/wellness branding, but the store itself looks like it's still on the default theme setup: placeholder 'Example products,' unrelated items in search, and social links still pointing to Shopify's own pages. Fix that.

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@kayno50 Hey kayno50, noticed My Big Market's branding says 'Skincare, simplified' but the store itself still looks unfinished, no skincare products showing yet, plus some leftover template stuff in the nav. If you're still setting it up, happy to help get it store ready!

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@CallMeSwarleyyy Hey chaos, the Avyra branding is really nice, noticed the browser tab title has a stray quote mark in it, and a few listings (like the turban hat) still show raw supplier titles that clash with the rest of the site's vibe. Happy to flag a couple more things if useful!

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Saw a business today with dozens of 5-star reviews. Not one visible on their actual website. All that trust sitting on someone else's platform. Pull it onto your homepage.
#LocalBusinessOwner

[Gideon Elakpa @GideonElakpa]

None of these take a redesign. About an hour each, and someone willing to test the site like an actual customer would.

Which one's on your site right now?

[Gideon Elakpa @GideonElakpa]

1. The phone number is an image, not text. Nobody can tap to call on mobile.

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3. The contact form has no confirmation message. People assume it failed and just call a competitor instead.