New Website

[Drain Medic]

Hey, just made my own website, with the help of Robert and Zeljka...Check it out...let me know what you think..

Thanks,
greg

WWW.DRAINMEDICPA.COM (http://www.DRAINMEDICPA.COM)

[PLUMBER RICK]

what's up with all those spartan machines and stock photos:eek:

where is the k-60 impressionator:confused:

only saw 1 photo of a ridgid seesnake.:)

there are plenty of ridgid stock photos to copy and paste.

flat rate:crying:

i don't have a website:speechless:

need to call robert and zeljka:o.


looks good greg;)

rick.

[plumberscrack]

Good start but....

Numberous spelling errors

Need a higher resolution picture of the truck and banner

[Drain Medic]

Yeah i still have alot of work on it, just got it published an hour ago...ive been working on it for hrs straight....Dont worry all the spelling errors will be gone, and more ridgid photos will be added....i figured on putting the job pictures in the images section.....keep the stock photos in the service areas...Not to shabby for designing my own site.

[plumberscrack]

Can we all take turns signing your guestbook raving about you?

[Drain Medic]

absolutely ;)

[Josh]

looks all messed up in firefox. Top banner is all stretched and weird.

[Drain Medic]

huh...i wonder how i can fix that?

[PLUMBER RICK]

huh...i wonder how i can fix that?


robert, zeljka, up yet:confused::D

rick.

[gear junkie]

What about adding some pics of you doing some work like running a snake or camering out a line. Before and after pics with the camera would be great. That was one thing I loved about Robert's website was all the personal pictures. Those pics give the customer a real sense of who they're hiring. Overall it looks great for the first edition.

[mrs. westcoast]

robert, zeljka, up yet:confused::D

rick.

Very funny:)

Why don't you ask Joey to get you a domain name..oh i forgot your customers are 70 and over:eek::)

Wait a second... which is better then what robert has:)

[Drain Medic]

What about adding some pics of you doing some work like running a snake or camering out a line. Before and after pics with the camera would be great. That was one thing I loved about Robert's website was all the personal pictures. Those pics give the customer a real sense of who they're hiring. Overall it looks great for the first edition.


They will be in there, under images...gotta pick out some winners;)

[DUNBAR]

Like the Spartan equipment as well :D I own two of those three machines.

When you build your site, you can have all the content in the world.....but you need to build the back end of your site where the web crawlers catch the content your marketing.


It's called meta tags which are found in your source info of your site.

Hammer the maximum amount of words you can put in there, related to everything and everything you do in your profession, even remotely associated.

If you can do it without being caught, separate names and words of your competitors in your meta tags so that when someone looks up your competition.....you'll show up as well.

All the cities you want to work in, make sure you put the names of them in as well.

Keywording is optimum in how you show up in the top 3 search engines. Sometimes you can even place mispelled words in invisible font on your site so when somebody accidentally spells your company name wrong....it still catches on the search engine.

^^^

If you've seen my site, it is dull but packs a kick-a$$ punch when you search for numerous word phrases that works on a geographical front.

My website took 500 hours and a smashed keyboard and you wouldn't believe how good it felt when I smashed it and keys went flying everywhere. Dog almost had a heart attack trying to get out of the office, along with the road rage encountered when I took him to office depot to get another one.


The reason it took so long to do mine was months earlier.......I didn't even know how to get on the internet. This was in 2002 and the rest is history. I constantly update and mix up my meta tag source info periodically so the the web crawlers see it as a change.

What makes no sense is I've somehow disappeared off of MSN.....and that is the default search browser when you mistype a website you are looking for on most all computers today. ?????


Always remember that when you build a site......there's still a ton of older people with the stupid dial-up and if you busy it up with pictures and gif images.....this will slow it down dramatically on the loading of the pages.

Even though I feel my site is dull-drum at best....I've been complimented countless times on how simple it is to navigate......and even the web designers have asked "who did your site" on a on-off basis. I tell them myself and they seem to be shocked.

I don't know why....it's just a DIY format from register.com that came free with my two domain names.

WARNING:

If someone ever offers you big money to sell your domain name.....like 10 or 20 grand.......DON"T DO IT. Your company name is valuable to you and if you go for the instant money you'll regret the move.

I've been offered twice on my .com company name and I'm not giving it up till I die. The .coms rule the roost on the internet and it's hard to see anything else carry the same way.

I have a .net backended to my .com to do 2 things: protect myself from competition and create more pages to my site in the same stroke.

I can honestly state that I got extremely lucky to be able to buy a domain name directly related to my company name. That's when bigger companies were buying up every extension name known.....

[HVAC HAWK]

nice site i tried to leave something in your guest book but it did not work .

[Woussko]

looks all messed up in firefox. Top banner is all stretched and weird.

Josh, Please uninstall your current version of Firefox, reboot, delete sub-directories (folders) and really be totally rid of the version of Firefox you have now. Then download and install the latest version for your OS that they have. I bet it fixes the problems. I had all kind of issues with Firefox until I got totally rid of the old and got the newest version. Now things work as they should.:)

[Bob D.]

A web site is not much different than drain cleaning...you get what you pay for.

You want to look and operate professionally on the job, and you need to have a professional look on the web too.

First impressions are important, if its not ready for prime time then don't put it out there for everyone to see.

[Drain Medic]

Thanks for the encouraging words...unfortunetly your right you get what you pay for and this hosting site is giving me problems...It is all set and ready to be posted for everything....its all edited..but the hosting site is having problems republishing it as of right now.... When its up, im sure you will be pleased ;)

[Drain Medic]

Everything is fixed now...check it out

[mrs. westcoast]

A web site is not much different than drain cleaning...you get what you pay for.

You want to look and operate professionally on the job, and you need to have a professional look on the web too.

First impressions are important, if its not ready for prime time then don't put it out there for everyone to see.

If you look professional on the job doesn't mean you have $1000 to pay someone so they can professionaly design your site.

Get what you pay for is true but sometimes you have to make the most of it.

In these days customers care less what look you have on your website. They care how much you can save them. Sometimes a good looking site looks to expensive and they won't even call.

Greg didn't finish his site yet..that is why he posted it here so he can hear other options and suggestions.

[PLUMBER RICK]

greg, you still need to get your phone # on your opening home page;)

rick.

[Drain Medic]

Yes i know...im leaving as is for now...its such a headache editing and then trying to republish the site....i will be adding more pics and the phone number will be on every page...just want to be headache free until christmas ;)

[Bob D.]

quote=mrs. westcoast;109966]If you look professional on the job doesn't mean you have $1000 to pay someone so they can professionaly design your site.

Get what you pay for is true but sometimes you have to make the most of it.

In these days customers care less what look you have on your website. They care how much you can save them. Sometimes a good looking site looks to expensive and they won't even call.

Greg didn't finish his site yet..that is why he posted it here so he can hear other options and suggestions.[/quote]

I'm not saying you need to spend a lot of money, and you don't. But you do need to think about how the information is presented on the site, the default page especially. Spelling and gramme errors should not be (not saying you had any, I didn't even check). Layout that don't render properly on different browsers or operating systems or on older versions of browsers will be problems. I have one computer with a interchangeable HD rack. On each of five racks I have a HD with a different OS on it and different browsers. I use it to check how pages will load and appear to people using older equipment and smaller monitors, etc.

I worry about they person who is still running WinME with IE6 on a 14" monitor and try to accommodate his needs too. Not everyone is running the latest and greatest computer. Now-a-days you have to think about mobile phones and other handheld devices with web browsing capabilities too.

Sometimes a simple single page is all you need. Something with a short description of your services and contact info (phone/pager and email). If you put an email link or address on a web page then you better be prepared to check your inbox regularly (like every day). To do less is the same as not returning a phone message and will cost you in the long run.

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[Josh]

Greg, Theres just a few things out of place. The banner across the top the logo is stretch so it looks distorted and its adding a lot of dead space to the top before you get to your main content. I would recommend loosing the left side navigation and rely on your top tabs to handle it. I dont think you need the left side bar. When you get down to your service page just list the services out on the main services page. Once they click on the link for a specific service just include a Back to Service button at the top of every specific service page. I think your content is coming along very nicely. The formating is very distracting for me though.

Just my 2 cents.

Josh