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  Graeme @ BGS October 22, 2013 at 3:01pm

  Hi Ben,
  Not bad for first stab.

  Just a few little niggles from having a quick glance over.

  Use capital letters for the town / cities - you have a mix of upper and lower cases.

  The Hard and soft landcaping links go to the same page so why not just have the one clink though?

  I would try and get better pictures. The new turfing one isn't a very good advert. some of the rolls have been laid the same way and hence doesn't give the correct dark and light stripe effect.
  The picture of the turfing being removed looks like the poor chap is scratching his head and thinking WTF!

  Not too keen on the mix of different fonts / boldness etc.

  A few issues with the text, for example "All aspect of hard / soft landscaping work undertaken, whether is a brand new..."

  Personally, I think a better very brief description should be added for each service,

  Example Lawn mowing: Regular or one off lawn mowing using the latest professional equipment including edging up and strimming under trees and other areas. Grass cuttings taken away etc.. You get the picture?

  List all lawn treatments offered such as Fertilisation, Aeration and Scarification

  Same applies for the hard and soft landscaping services.

  Finally, viewed using firefox and no issues seeing all of the text etc.

  Sorry for lack of more detail etc but only a very quick 1st review / impressions.
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  Benjamin O'Neill October 22, 2013 at 3:37pm

  Appreciate the feedback Graeme its good to have a second set of eyes its surprising what we miss =]

  the mixture of upper and lower case words is for SEO only non cosmetic, google picks up highlighted words.

  Link changed on main page.

  you mention listing all the treatments on main or garden maintenance page ?

  Brief description will be altered for each.

  Pictures are unfortunately what i have been given so far, a request for more has been sent.
  
  Graeme @ BGS said:

  Hi Ben,
  Not bad for first stab.

  Just a few little niggles from having a quick glance over.

  Use capital letters for the town / cities - you have a mix of upper and lower cases.

  The Hard and soft landcaping links go to the same page so why not just have the one clink though?

  I would try and get better pictures. The new turfing one isn't a very good advert. some of the rolls have been laid the same way and hence doesn't give the correct dark and light stripe effect.
  The picture of the turfing being removed looks like the poor chap is scratching his head and thinking WTF!

  Not too keen on the mix of different fonts / boldness etc.

  A few issues with the text, for example "All aspect of hard / soft landscaping work undertaken, whether is a brand new..."

  Personally, I think a better very brief description should be added for each service,

  Example Lawn mowing: Regular or one off lawn mowing using the latest professional equipment including edging up and strimming under trees and other areas. Grass cuttings taken away etc.. You get the picture?

  List all lawn treatments offered such as Fertilisation, Aeration and Scarification

  Same applies for the hard and soft landscaping services.

  Finally, viewed using firefox and no issues seeing all of the text etc.

  Sorry for lack of more detail etc but only a very quick 1st review / impressions.
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  Robbie October 22, 2013 at 4:06pm

  Benjamin good effort, lets hope it's appreciated!
  It's not easy designing website for other people, I have the tee shirt for that one ;)
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  Benjamin O'Neill October 22, 2013 at 4:15pm

  Cheers robbie, i agree with you on that point.

  Its surprising how many hours go into a website and then all the alterations and changes.
  
  Robbie @ PremierLawnsni said:

  Benjamin good effort, lets hope it's appreciated!
  It's not easy designing website for other people, I have the tee shirt for that one ;)
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  Colin Hunt October 22, 2013 at 4:53pm

  You're a better man than me Benjamin, I wouldn't know where to start re putting together a website. Now, I know you are dealing with what you've been given, but the pictures are pretty poor examples, surely there are better ones available. If not I would re-think the whole set-up.
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  Steve London Stone October 22, 2013 at 8:24pm

  It's a good first attempt but you could improve it with few tweaks.
  First of all I would look at making the three image boxes equal in size to each other. These 3 boxes act as the main focal point of the homepage and the fact that they are not of equal size and spacing sticks out and looks a little bit "thrown in "
  I would also look at all the gutters and spacing in general. For example the second paragraph of text doesn't line up with anything and again looks as though its been put in as an afterthought. Same for the image gallery too
  Steve
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  Benjamin O'Neill October 22, 2013 at 11:08pm

  Hi colin i would completely agree with you on the photos having had several website myself and learnt the hard way =] I'm hoping to get some better quality photos soon cheers for the comment.
  
  Colin Hunt said:

  You're a better man than me Benjamin, I wouldn't know where to start re putting together a website. Now, I know you are dealing with what you've been given, but the pictures are pretty poor examples, surely there are better ones available. If not I would re-think the whole set-up.
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  Benjamin O'Neill October 23, 2013 at 12:04pm

  Hi Steve changes made does that look better paragraphes lined up and photos sized in proportion ?
  
  Steve London Stone said:

  It's a good first attempt but you could improve it with few tweaks.
  First of all I would look at making the three image boxes equal in size to each other. These 3 boxes act as the main focal point of the homepage and the fact that they are not of equal size and spacing sticks out and looks a little bit "thrown in "
  I would also look at all the gutters and spacing in general. For example the second paragraph of text doesn't line up with anything and again looks as though its been put in as an afterthought. Same for the image gallery too
  Steve
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  Steve London Stone October 23, 2013 at 4:02pm

  I think it looks a lot better. I would also take a look at the top navigation. Why does it stop part way across the page? I would spread the top navigation across the full width of the page and then put equal spacing in between the buttons. I think this will provide you with a much more balanced layout. I Still think it needs a bit of work below the line as well though. What's te purpose of the paragraph just below the line?