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  phil@gardenchief.co.uk October 31, 2012 at 3:06pm

  Very good but it's got the Yell favicon on the tabs, looks better if it had your logo.
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  Jackson's Landscape Design October 31, 2012 at 4:18pm

  Chris 

  On your landscaping page, under the title Landscaping services...its just a mass block of words...perhaps some white space.....or in this case green space.

  Same page at the center under the title our landscaping services include.....the Green wording saying garden design is so difficult to read with the white back drop....

  I'll look some  more, I must meet a client at 4.30pm...... 
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  Robbie October 31, 2012 at 7:29pm

  I think its ok, pages, the only thing I don't like is the load time on the pages, could be a little faster. 
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  Ian Olpin October 31, 2012 at 7:32pm

  I think it's great.

  Being really picky, the images render quite slowly in Chrome, then tried it in IE9 and they load fine?

  Also not so sure about the particular shade of greens (is one of them lime?), but that's just a personal preference thang. Content, layout and user-friendliness etc ..spot on!
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  andy @Doughty Garden Maintenance October 31, 2012 at 8:41pm

  I think it's really nice. pages loaded fine on my PC.

  quite jealous actually, makes mine look crap lol
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  Geoffrey King November 1, 2012 at 6:27pm

  Hi Chris,

  I found the website a bit repetitive at times, I would have liked to have seen a picture of you & your team and bit of info about you and your business.

  My question, is why would I hire you, I got that you are professional, but so are others.

  Rather than 'You want' better to say 'You need'

  You say qualified tree surgeons, why not specify what those qualifications are, how many years experience, how big the biggest trees are that you tackle

  You say you should use a professional/ expert, why not explain why, what can go wrong, etc..

  Our professional tree surgeons take great pride in their work so we can be relied on to do a high quality job for whatever your requirement is.

  Should read ' so they can be relied upon, to do an excellent job.'

  We can help you create the garden of your dreams with a personal garden designs that will be tailored to your requirements

  Maybe, ' We will help you create your dream garden, with individual bespoke designs to suit your exact requirements.'

  If you change your language to imply that you and them are happening, (I'm sure there is some psychological word for this), it will be more positive & affirmative, ie better result

  Assume, when someone is on your tree services page, that's what they want, your selling a service to remedy a problem

  whereas

  with garden design, your selling lifestyle, aspirations & often selling to women, so your language needs to be different, flowers sell better than gravel...
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  Jackson's Landscape Design November 1, 2012 at 6:46pm

  Crop your images.....the existing block paving is shocking...this could put a prospect off for thinking this is your workmanship....
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  Chris Auld November 1, 2012 at 9:42pm

  Thanks Geoffrey, some good advice there, i like the idea of photo of our team, i'll have to do that some time.
  
  Geoffrey King North Yorkshire said:

  Hi Chris,

  I found the website a bit repetitive at times, I would have liked to have seen a picture of you & your team and bit of info about you and your business.

  My question, is why would I hire you, I got that you are professional, but so are others.

  Rather than 'You want' better to say 'You need'

  You say qualified tree surgeons, why not specify what those qualifications are, how many years experience, how big the biggest trees are that you tackle

  You say you should use a professional/ expert, why not explain why, what can go wrong, etc..

  Our professional tree surgeons take great pride in their work so we can be relied on to do a high quality job for whatever your requirement is.

  Should read ' so they can be relied upon, to do an excellent job.'

  We can help you create the garden of your dreams with a personal garden designs that will be tailored to your requirements

  Maybe, ' We will help you create your dream garden, with individual bespoke designs to suit your exact requirements.'

  If you change your language to imply that you and them are happening, (I'm sure there is some psychological word for this), it will be more positive & affirmative, ie better result

  Assume, when someone is on your tree services page, that's what they want, your selling a service to remedy a problem

  whereas

  with garden design, your selling lifestyle, aspirations & often selling to women, so your language needs to be different, flowers sell better than gravel...
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  Chris Auld November 1, 2012 at 9:44pm

  Hi Kerry, i take it your talking about the brick paving in the 'Recent projects' page, yes i agree it is a bit crap but i thought as it was in the 'before' pictures that people would realise it was already there before we started. I plan on changing this page regularly when we do any biggish landscaping jobs.
  
  Jackson's Landscape Design said:

  Crop your images.....the existing block paving is shocking...this could put a prospect off for thinking this is your workmanship....
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  Brian www.mibservices.co.uk November 1, 2012 at 10:04pm

  Chris, when did your site go live ? I tried googling "tree surgeon County Antrim" and couldnt find you at all. Did however find you on page 4 for " landscaper County Antrim".

  Maybe just needs a bit of time for googles spybots to index it properly, but from recollection, my yell produced site was page 1 within a week. Keep an eye on it and make sure yell is SEO-ing it properly.

  Looks good to me btw