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Posted by Joe AutoDrill on April 22, 2008, 9:09 am
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> I can just post th webpage here. http://www.jrfprecision.com/
> You have to exscust it. I'm doing the page myself and it is some what
> rough.
Looks like a good start. Build on it and it will probably bring you more
business than anything else right now.
Tips you didn't ask for or pay for but I'm gonna give anyway:
Use standard text, not that fancy stuff. It's hard to read.
Add some descriptive sentences telling about specific products you've made.
Other companies making similar or the same product will find you in a Google
search.
Add an "e-mail us" form for quotes and answer your e-mail daily.
Add some photos.
Loose the "fade in" on the main page. People who click on the site prefer
fast over fancy.
Add a page mentioning that you are looking for sales reps. Help wanted,
etc. Note that 95% of those responding will promise the world and deliver
only their promises, not orders.
Much success to you.
Regards,
Joe Agro, Jr.
(800) 871-5022
01.908.542.0244
Automatic / Pneumatic Drills: http://www.AutoDrill.com
Multiple Spindle Drills: http://www.Multi-Drill.com
V8013-R
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Posted by Greg O on April 22, 2008, 8:58 pm
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>> I can just post th webpage here. http://www.jrfprecision.com/
>> You have to exscust it. I'm doing the page myself and it is some what
>> rough.
>
> Looks like a good start. Build on it and it will probably bring you more
> business than anything else right now.
>
> Tips you didn't ask for or pay for but I'm gonna give anyway:
>
> Use standard text, not that fancy stuff. It's hard to read.
>
> Add some descriptive sentences telling about specific products you've
> made. Other companies making similar or the same product will find you in
> a Google search.
>
> Add an "e-mail us" form for quotes and answer your e-mail daily.
>
> Add some photos.
>
> Loose the "fade in" on the main page. People who click on the site prefer
> fast over fancy.
>
> Add a page mentioning that you are looking for sales reps. Help wanted,
> etc. Note that 95% of those responding will promise the world and deliver
> only their promises, not orders.
>
> Much success to you.
>
> Regards,
> Joe Agro, Jr.
> (800) 871-5022
> 01.908.542.0244
> Automatic / Pneumatic Drills: http://www.AutoDrill.com
> Multiple Spindle Drills: http://www.Multi-Drill.com
>
> V8013-R
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>
>
>
>
Loose the black background too! For some reason my old eyes can hardly read
the print on the page!!
Greg
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Posted by Joe AutoDrill on April 23, 2008, 7:48 am
Please log in for more thread options > Loose the black background too! For some reason my old eyes can hardly
> read the print on the page!!
> Greg
As a bit of trivia... Alternately, change the text color to make it easier
to read. A black background is the international sign that your site is
actually put up by someone with a techical background in some circles...
Someone who knows what 2600 has to do with computers.
--
Regards,
Joe Agro, Jr.
(800) 871-5022
01.908.542.0244
Automatic / Pneumatic Drills: http://www.AutoDrill.com
Multiple Spindle Drills: http://www.Multi-Drill.com
V8013-R
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Posted by Steve Ackman on April 23, 2008, 5:41 pm
Please log in for more thread options on Tue, 22 Apr 2008 06:00:52 -0700 (PDT), JRF Precision,
foljambe@hotmail.com wrote:
> I can just post th webpage here. http://www.jrfprecision.com/
> You have to exscust it. I'm doing the page myself and it is some what
> rough.
Yowsa! 422K for a tiny thumbnail graphic of your
sign? Extremely bad for dialup. You should manipulate
the graphic to the size you want it first, then display
it at that size. HTML height and width tags are
supposed to be descriptive, not active. Using them to
resize the display of the graphic is completely
different than resizing the graphic itself.
Basically you're having people download the full
3040x2600 image of the sign only to have their browsers
resize the display to 200x164.
Actually, now that I look, I see you're using some
kind of M$ tool to write the page. Worst thing you
can do. See the results of the valididator:
>http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.jrfprecision.com%2F&charset=%28detect+automatically%29&doctype=Inline&group=0
If that wraps on you (it shouldn't), you can click
here instead: http://tinyurl.com/63457n
Whatever you're using isn't a web page editor.
Maybe Office, saved as HTML? That really doesn't work
well at all. You might want to try something that
adheres to standards, like nvu or amaya. Both are
available for multiple platforms.
http://nvudev.com/index.php
http://www.w3.org/Amaya/
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Posted by F. George McDuffee on April 23, 2008, 9:28 pm
Please log in for more thread options On Tue, 22 Apr 2008 06:00:52 -0700 (PDT), JRF Precision
<snip>
>I can just post th webpage here. http://www.jrfprecision.com/
>You have to exscust it. I'm doing the page myself and it is some what
>rough.
<snip>
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I will second the advice on the oversize graphic as too slow to
download over dial-up, and there are a *LOT* of people with
dial-up.
You can use Iview32 to resize your graphics.
Download for free at
http://www.irfanview.com/
One tip is to provide small, low res pictures as a
guide/preview/teaser and then have the high res graphic as a
download option.
Be sure to include your email address on the contact page in
addition to your phone number. If possible inclue as a mailto
html link. Make it as easy as possible to contact you.
put an under construction notice on the unfinished pages such as
<services> so people don't wait and wait for it to load.
On your equipment page use a table so you can get 2 or threee
columns across the page so the reader doesn't have to scroll
down. Pictures would be nice (but keep them small with links to
highres/large pictures.
Roster -- again an "under construction" sign -- also use a table
and include pictures of your people. Should have their shop
aprons on and a micrometer or such in their hands.
On your contact page include a description but not a specific
name for functions such as customerservice, info, rfq,
orderstatus with email addresses such as info@jrfprecision.com
This will allow easy reasignment of the particular task w/o
having to redo your web page, for example when someone goes on
vacation.
Consider adding Live Messenger capability to allow personal
contact on the cheap. Live Messenger is free and a 40$ webcam
and microphone/soundcard is all you need.
On all the pages use larger type -- there are a lot of old farts
with bad eyesight [like me] that have to use the zoom add-in for
firefox.
Be sure to create and add your keyword list and submit your
website to the major search engines so people can find you.
Pictures of sample jobs/products are always interesting.
You most likely should also include a webmail contact form --
again make it easy to contact you. Be sure to include an FTP
area so people can send you large cad/cam files. Many ISP
providers limit email attachments to 8 meg total [or less].
All in all a good start, and this will tend to be a work in
progress. Apply the KISS principal and don't let the webpage
tail start to wag the machineshop dog.
Good luck!
Unka' George [George McDuffee]
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He that will not apply new remedies,
must expect new evils:
for Time is the greatest innovator: and
if Time, of course, alter things to the worse,
and wisdom and counsel shall not alter them to the better,
what shall be the end?
Francis Bacon (1561-1626), English philosopher, essayist, statesman.
Essays, "Of Innovations" (1597-1625).
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> You have to exscust it. I'm doing the page myself and it is some what
> rough.