I joined a web design contest and made this landing page. I am curious to know that what are the things that are going wrong with it? What it tells about the designer like he is a beginer, intermediate…
I want you to give me feedback on each section. I am planning to do web design and guide me on what things to learn and what niches are good to specialize in. Thanks
Your first mistake is “contest.”
A lot of time spent. No money. No back and forth with client. You’re left to guess what they want, what they need. Without seeing the brief, we don’t know either.
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The client didn’t reject the design, you didn’t win a contest — there is a huge difference. Avoid contests.
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I don’t know why the prospective client didn’t go with your design. It’s competent enough from what I can tell, and I don’t see any obvious problems.
One thing I can say with a degree of certainty is that clients who solicit work on contest sites are looking for whatever they’ve decided they like, rather than what might work best for them. Maybe they didn’t like purple. Maybe they thought it was too bland or too complicated. Maybe their spouse didn’t like it. It could be anything.
It’s already been said, but putting a bunch of work into contests, where you’re at the mercy of what naive whim the client has, isn’t a route to making money. Instead, it’s a great way to do a lot of work, and then not get paid.
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You are saying right. I have no idea what else to do to get work like cold outreach but that didnt work for me. Getting a job but i applied for hundereds of these. I want you to critique my work. Is the work I am doing good enough that someone would pay me for?
Turns out that I can’t only post quotes. So here is some text. 
This is not a landing page this just a home page lol. A landing page is a short page with a form for leads…..
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I think your design looks great, with interesting colour scheme, it is possible that other designs may have been more suitable to the clients design brief.
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Rejection is not the right word. They hosted a contest. They got 100s of applicants. They reward 1 person with a low monetary value - and they take 100 designs away with them for the a very low cost of the contest prize money.
In essence, they’ve paid very little to get 10, 20, 50, 100, or more mockups to use for whatever they want.
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