Tilers Websites and Web Design

[Dan]

^ Doesn't really render the plugin useless as many do actually block Analytics from their web browsers etc when blocking advertisements from Google. Incognito browsing will also be monitored by your Wordpress stats, but not by Analytics.

 

[Dan]

Dan. Why not sell links from this site as a Group buy inorder to help peoples SEO or even better give them away....

i.e. Create a Page on here for "Tiler London" and allow 10-20 websites be listed. That would really help people get more traffic/business from Google? Could really boost peoples businesses on here.

Perhaps people with the most posts get a page or a keyword for free. One way to repay the community for all thier top content!

I'd rather not sell or give away text-links. Tilers can naturally get links on this website.

We also have half a dozen related websites, directories, and others, where they can include a listing, and the lads here know that already.

 

[jonnyc]

Hi Alan,

Your site/theme looks really good so dont get changing the design at all, just needs a little snagging. He's done you a nice site!

You need to get your designer to save your images optimised for web. Essentialluly the file sizes are too large.. your asking your visitors to download really large images which is unnecessary. In photoshop you can "save as web" and reduce the quality and size down. This will sort alot of your slowness out. 8 seconds to load a page will make most people click off before it's loaded.

Should only take him 2-3 hours to resave the images. It's a really simple job just boring (if they all need sorting that is). For example on your home page you have this image (double click and see how massive it is.. the shells the whole width of my screen) Broken Link Removed You could even do it!! Just need to download photoshop demo and a bit of instruction.

You have also got a link in the code thats causing issues. (wont really give you much in terms of speed when fixed but it should be fixed nevertheless)

The link is
link rel="stylesheet" href="[DLMURL]http://johnclarkenaturalstonework.co.uk/wp-content/themes/smallbiz/css/smallbiz-options.css.php[/DLMURL]" type="text/css" media="screen"

It's got two file extensions on the end of the link.css & .php so just delete the .php off the end and all will be sorted.

I would also get him to remove a plugin called "Stats for wordpress" as you have lots of plugins installed and you can just embed Google Anylitics and Google Webmaster Tools which are both free. Which renders this additional plugin useless.

Apart from that it looks good

Thanks so much for your reply.
i cannot express how pleased i am that someone has taken time like you have ,to have a look at what i have tried to create.I think you understand what I am after. I am also open to any new suggestions that would make site better.
This has been quite a journey but I have complete belief that a visual website to showcase work is the way forward.
i have won two jobs this month as a result of submitting my quote and suggesting client look at new website.
i also have to admit that I have drawn my ideas from garden designers who work in the high end of their market.
They have a completely diffrent take than most tiling websites .
i

 

[jonnyc]

I will talk with Alan about your comments which are very much appreciated

 

[Protilers]

for a while now I have been wanting to move to a website that is a little more tablet/smartphone/pc/google.......friendly.......

I think I am on the right track......what do you lot think?

CLICK TO VIEW MY NEW SITE

it is not complete by a long shot but have a mess around.......

 

[beanz]

for a while now I have been wanting to move to a website that is a little more tablet/smartphone/pc/google.......friendly.......

I think I am on the right track......what do you lot think?

CLICK TO VIEW MY NEW SITE

it is not complete by a long shot but have a mess around.......

Looks good! Can i get some info on how you went about putting this together Lee? I really do need to get my rear in gear, and join the 21st century!!

 

[Protilers]

Looks good! Can i get some info on how you went about putting this together Lee? I really do need to get my rear in gear, and join the 21st century!!

I have been building it in HTML...notepad++ and dreamweaver...........plus I like computers, so I understand a few programming languages (sort of!)......my best advice is contact Dave Howe.......he has a lovely website....
and he had it built for him.....as opposed to my bash it together effort...............he may be able to point you in the right direction.........

all the best

Lee

 

[rainsco]

i like the before-after photos a lot!

 

[Ceramico tiling]

Best and cheapest option really if you're going down the template route is use Wordpress and set it up as a website, and then use one of the hundreds of thousands of templates that you can get for that. You'd end up with something akin to Dave's site.

WooThemes.com is one I subscribe to.



And they rank really well. And have loads of third party customisation options all for free. So you can choose out of dozens of gallerys for pictures etc, dozens of feedback form options etc etc

Ive been trying to suss out Wordpress.(partly since reading this post so thanks Dan)
But I am really struggling to wrap my pip around it.Trying to customize the templates seems limited and frustrating.Does one require prior web-development experience to use it in your opinion?

 

[taffy]

I'm not so sure about all these CMS solutions, they are an easy security risk... anyone remember 'matt's free scripts' many moons back.
static HTML is the best

 

[goz]

Gents please let me know what you think, need more photos on there but it's nearly there. Tried to keep it simple but stylish

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www.cjgceramics.co.uk

 

[Gazzer]

Gents please let me know what you think, need more photos on there but it's nearly there. Tried to keep it simple but stylish

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Christopher J Gosden Ceramics - Tiling Services for Chichester and Surrounding Areas

its getting there.

 

[PaulSmith]

Great looking website.

 

[cdstiling]

Hi , Please let me know what you think of my website any positives or negatives ?
here is my website CDS Tiling Harrogate And Leeds For All Your Tiling Work

 

[Del W]

Hi , Please let me know what you think of my website any positives or negatives ?
here is my website CDS Tiling Harrogate And Leeds For All Your Tiling Work

Looks good. I think your drop down needs to be a few seconds longer & theres a spelling mistake on your contact page... (should be "and" not an.)