Busy building new website, thanks Guy!

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The first two pages are built, that the entry page and the soil page.

The banner is courtesy of a pic from here with some photo shopping skills.

Whilst the names are registered I haven't moved them over to a host yet and am building it at my existing site.

The focus of this is to have a site that is dedicated to tree care, for Australia especially this region. There's nothing really around that's .... this good, for here.

I thought about it for a while and I decided to seperate it from my ususal site as I dont want people to feel guilty for cutting trees down and vice versa.

Tree hugger can go here and tree haters to the other site. LOL
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Both sites will be linked but run as two seperate sites.

Guy started this. He said I didn't have enough tree care stuff on my site. So I gave it some thought and went this way about it.

See what I've done so far.

http://www.palmtreeservices.com.au/weareallabouttrees/


Also I have started an interactive news blog at my other site. People can see latest issues and comment if they choose. Again there is nothing like this around here.

http://www.palmtreeservices.com.au/news/

The goal is to retire on all the advertising like MD Vaden.
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Just kidding Mario. But I figure that there's a need for a one stop shop of reference. Accurate and Australian.

No DED here, ice damage, salt damage, or oaks but a different ball game altogether. The blog will be right up to date stuff.

What do you reckon? And I have those other pages to build yet so any help would be great. The topics aren't in concrete so if you think there's something overlooked let me know.

Cheers.
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I love that photo you got on the site. I don't want to poop in the punch bowl, but that photo is from the U.S. It is Oak Alley Plantation.

It is great, but not something you see in Australia.--Just a thought. I am surprised you didn't find some pictures of some monumental Eucs.
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Great point.

I used it because here we really dont have anything that spectacualr as far as trees in urban setting go.

I hope that it displays to individuals the grandeur, the spectacle of what is possible and from what can be seen no malpractice pruning. The trees are what, 300yo? 100yo? Either way the foresight of planning, the generations of care are inspiration to what is possible.

Trees, not palms, are the way of the future. I have said for years palms are out of vogue and slowly the wheels are turning. Appropriate species selection and proper care can be simply stunning.

I came from Adelaide. The display of London Planes as you drive down Frome Road is unforgetable. The Brisbanites need to be shown the future, try to think ahead and value their trees. And think more than 5 minutes ahead if you know what I mean.

I hope that explains.
 
Top notch, first class work there, bro!
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I was wondering where you slipped off to! Worried, even!
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All bull [censored] aside that looks pretty good Eric. News pages work very well you have to have something to keep people coming back to your website.

I also send out a hard copy newsletter 3-4 times a year to my clients which allways bumps up the work load and can be season related :)
 
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It's on it's own server now.

http://www.weareallabouttrees.com.au/

Just finished the fertilzer page.

I was thinking about adding a forum, what do you reckon?

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Ekka:

I'm not trying to be an azz or anything - just offering a suggestion. I'd suggest having someone proofread your text. Little things like "dont" instead of "don't" detract from the site.

I'd like to see some examples of "good" trees. So often, we see poorly trimmed or diseased trees, but never examples of what a good tree could look like.
 
looks good ekka, can I make one suggestion. Personally I would prefer that the links go to the different pages WITHOUT opening a new window, it just seems cleaner to keep one window, plus it drives me mad when I've got eighteen thousand windows on my taskbar... maybe it's just me
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Good point, many have said that but here's the reason why I don't.

A lot of people are still on dial up and watching their behavior it goes like this ... they click on a link or page, it takes too long to open and many "X" out then go to the next website.

Now if you have tabbed browsing I really don't see it that much of a big deal. Personally I prefer what you guys are saying too but over 50% of users are dial uppers still. Now if only they used their back button more it would be OK, I might change it in a years time, hopefully by then the dial uppers would have gone broadband, lots of new wireless services are being installed to cover "blackspot" regions.
 
Ekka, check out mine. www.arborx.com

My nephew and I did it ourselves. He's the brains on how to do this stuff and shows me how to get started.

All the pictures are my own, even the beech tree and the water fall picture for the background.

My links don't go to entire whole different pages and I have dial-up and it's pretty fast. Actually once it comes up, it is faster for dial uppers then having to bring up a whole new page for every link. That's why we did it.

I did update it this weekend, my gallery of pictures used to come up in that center box, and wasn't enough room. Now the gallery pictures do come up in their own pages.

My wording could be better.

If you guys see mispelled words or terrible wording, feel free to tell me. There probably is some.

I'm just a little business and we did the web-site ourselves, but I think it looks pretty good. I'll keep making it better.

what you think?
 
I like the image Ekka.

Should be fine even if it is not Australia.

You've seen my home page.

I used the image of the giant coastal redwood, even though its two hours away, and non-residential.
 
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