
← The Travel Advisor Website Show31 jul · 19 min
DIY Travel Advisor Website Mistakes That Make You Look Unprofessional
<p>Building your own travel advisor website is completely reasonable — the tools available now are genuinely capable of producing something good. But there are specific things that happen in the process of building without a design background, and those things create a quality visitors pick up on even when they can't name it. In this episode, Justin Hinkle walks through what he calls the Amateur Signals: the visual and structural patterns that register in a visitor's mind as "a non-designer built this."</p><p></p><p>He covers ten signals in total — from font inconsistency and uneven spacing to generic copy, visibly stock photography, overcrowded navigation, and the page-to-page inconsistency that makes a site feel disjointed. For each one he explains not just what it looks like but why it happens, and what actually fixes it. He closes with a priority order for addressing them, so you know where to start rather than trying to fix everything at once.</p><p></p><p>Work with us: <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://suitcasedesigns.com" target="_blank">www.suitcasedesigns.com</a></p>