The Most Aesthetically Challenged Lawn Care Websites Ever!
I have put together a small list of sites in desperate need of a redesign! I'm not in anyway saying that this is a reflection on how they do business, nevertheless first impressions are lasting impressions. When a new visitor comes to your website an initial impression will be formed pretty quickly, and a bad first impression will drastically decrease your chances at getting that phone to ring. This list looks at 6 examples of some really bad impressions. This one has do it yourself written all over it.. love the borders guys very 1991-1995ish - white, yellow, green and red font nice touch.. Had to search really hard to find this one cause the page titles show up as Home, Home, Home on every page in the browser bar - guess its true what they say "where ever you go, there you are". Nice! oh, it gets worse! Saved the best for last. Read the footer, I'll bet Homestead 's made a million of these babies. 121 hits since 2008! Great job Rob!!! A lot of people make a lot of money in this business ...
3 Resources To Organize And Easily Email Your Leads For Free
There is no doubt, being able to follow up with your prospects & customers is the single most important marketing tool you absolutely need to have in order to continue to grow and sustain your business. To do that, and be affective at it, you need some sort of tool that allows you to organize and easily email your leads - where’s once text-based emails where consider the norm, and perhaps to this day you are still doing your marketing with basic text emails, there’s now a wealth of rich media, technology and functionality to consider. One solution, which is what I use and recommend all my clients to use, is the help of something like MailChimp, CakeMail and PHPList, these tools really make it easy to send and manage your HTML messages. Phplist in particular is great because it has a built in WYSIWYG HTML editor that allows you to create and view your HTML message even before you send it out, plus it's free! Other services such as MailChimp and the like, offer free newsletter templates you can edit. Besides that, ...
So You Think You’re A Web Designer..
That is the questions Homestead-design-seo.com asks. Is it ethical to pass yourself off as a web designer, when in fact your using Intuit's Homestead software to cut paste. Personally I would say there's nothing wrong with using the software within of itself, but just because anyone can make a website doesn't mean everyone should. Unfortunately because it is much easier to want to believe that it is that simple to make a successful website, many unsuspecting clients do fall pray to these guys. However these wannabe web designers aren't the only ones to blame, the majority of their client base are pretty wishy-washy too - cheep always looking to get something for nothing. I'm talking about small business owners who will rent expensive equipment, spend hundreds of dollars advertising on Yellow pages, and then hire an amature to do their website, or what's worse, try to do it themselves. "Do yourself - a HUGE favor. Do something else until you learn the right way to design sites. Otherwise you are doing the client a disservice and contributing to the ...
20 of The Best Resources To Get Your Lawn Care Website Ready for Lawn Mowing Season
A lawn mower is a fairly inexpensive peace of equipment, yet no other power equipment is as essential to landscaping as is the lawn mower. You need to have a lawn mower that will consistently get the job done without any hassles throughout the lawn mowing season. And you should also know how to use the lawn mower to your best advantage. Similarly being online is not an option for your business today, it is vital to its growth. A website not only establishes your presence as a professionally run business, it's also where your customers expect to find you. Yet so many lawn businesses do not have a good searchable website, or worse they have no website at all! So whether you want to re-design your website, or whether this is your first online presence, the following list of links will help you get your lawn care business ready for lawn mowing season 1 - The Fact That Your Competitor Has A Website Means What? It should be obvious but maybe you should read this anyway... 2 - 13 Creative and ...
Twitter Contest – Up to 25% Discount for Every Participant!
The idea of a Weekly Editors Pick Twitter Contest came up in May when the yet to be unveiled site redesign was being done. It was getting to the point where many cool looking templates were being overlooked—great templates that we put back up three, maybe four months ago. I was worried that these templates would be lost amid the sea of daily new favorites. Thus, the Weekly Editors Pick idea emerged. In fact, we decided why not hop on the twitter bandwagon, make this a twitter contest too and give each participant a 20% promo code for any Foamers order. Besides that, all participants would be instantly eligible for an additional 25% discount on template customization. So, from now on, each week, we will comb through the site, pick out a couple of templates, and mark them with the prestigious “Editors Pick.” And we want you to help us choose the best! Contest entry is free of charge, you don’t need an invitation (as if!). All you need to do is follow the instructions below: Now let's ...
Summers is here! Time to stop procrastinating.
Everyone procrastinates at some time in his or her life. As a self-employed web developer, I am certainly guilty as charged. That’s is why in this article I want to show you two things that have helped me, and give you some more incentives to get your business online right now! A – Complex projects often seem daunting and cause many people to procrastinate. When faced with a project that seems overwhelming in its complexity it is advisable to break the project down into smaller components and tackle each component individually. For example – if you need to redesign your website, but you don’t know where to start? Start by taking a good hard look at your website and ask yourself these two questions. How is my brand perceived as opposed to my competitors? How is my website doing in terms of aesthetics and functionality? If it’s not doing a good job, don’t just let it sit there, fix it fast! B – The inability to make decisions also contributes to procrastination. Many people simply spend too much time trying to make decisions about their website. While ...
Build a Custom HTML5 Video Player: Free Premium Tutorial
Much like the other various Envato marketplaces, our newly launched Tuts+ marketplace will offer a free file each month. For September, that free file/tutorial just so happens to mine! I’ll show you how to build a custom HTML5 video player with Flash fallback support. Be sure to grab this one for free for the entire month of September. Next month, it’ll return to its original price. Though the idea of a video-specific HTML element was suggested well over a decade ago, we’re only just beginning to see this come to fruition! Forget all of that “HTML5 2012” mumbo-jumbo; the truth is that you can use the video element in your projects right now! The only problem is that the video players are inconsistent from browser to browser, and full-screen support is, at the time of this writing, only available in certain browsers, via a right-click. Further, what if we want to brand our video player? Unfortunately, there isn’t an easy way to do so by default. The solution is to create a custom player that remedies all of these ...
13 Creative and Colorful Themes for Your Lawn Care Website
I found all 13 themes for your lawn care website just searching online. Some were specifically design to be used as a lawn care website and others you'll notice I've exercised a little creative license to use it as a lawn care theme by switching the images that came with the theme with our own.. Also feel free to leave me a comment down bellow - which of these do you like best? Enjoy! Preview Get Customized Preview Get Customized Preview Get Customized Preview Get Customized Preview Get Customized Preview Get Customized Preview Get Customized Preview Get Customized Preview Get Customized Preview Get Customized Preview Get Customized Preview Get Customized Preview Get Customized
Need help with website Maintenance?
Are you wondering how often should you update your content? Imagine a movie house that showed the same movie for a whole month. Moviegoers will definitely hate viewing the same movie for several times! Similarly, with the dynamic nature of the Internet, your site should continually hook and delight readers. If your website is not doing that then you need to fix it. Websites can be updated daily, weekly and monthly depending on the nature of your services. We'd like to take this opportunity to tell you about a very special offer. For a limited time, all maintenance is 25% OFF, offer expires 06/13/2010. Click Here to sign up now, or to learn more about our website maintenance package… Should you wish to discuss your website or if you need a quote, or anything else, please drop us line and tell us what you think.
Pacific Wheel
Posted on 01. Sep, 2010 by Veerle Pieters.
Summery and vintagey!
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Nothing
Posted on 01. Sep, 2010 by Veerle Pieters.
Semicircles with Spots on Mint.
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Banana
Posted on 01. Sep, 2010 by Veerle Pieters.
Love the colors in this food piece.
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50 Amazing Free Icon Sets
Posted on 01. Sep, 2010 by Design Shack.
“The hundreds of featured icons here are diverse in their styles: glossy, hand-drawn, realistic, textured are among the design themes you’ll find. I hope you find a handful of icon sets that you’ll bookmark, download, and use!”
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Creative Bookmarks: Best of August 2010
Posted on 01. Sep, 2010 by Tim Smith.
August was another awesome month with great tutorials and articles oozing from everywhere. Here’s Creative Bookmarks August!
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Funny News: Weekly Dosage Of Offbeat And Interesting Articles
Posted on 01. Sep, 2010 by Tony.
We have decided that every Wednesday we will break away from all our design related news and showcase some really funky stories/articles from across the web. These stories may vary from design topics to just crazy and funny stuff. Really we are jus…
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Performance Optimization: How to Load your javascript faster!
Posted on 01. Sep, 2010 by przemek.
Javascript is now extremely important. Some sites use javascript for a tiny enchantments, many of today’s webapps are depending on it, some of them are even totally written in js. In this article I’ll point out some important rules, how to use your javascript, which tools to use and what benefits you’ll gain from it.
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Page Flip Book + FlashMoto CMS = Additional Customization Options
Posted on 01. Sep, 2010 by Alex Flow.
Please welcome the newest Flip Book Flash CMS Template from FlashMoto. Enjoy additional customization options!
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CSS Design: Aint Rocket Science
Posted on 01. Sep, 2010 by Design Shack.
This is a crazy looking site that is a wonderful mix or random and structured.
I really like the unique way in which they showcase their work. This design was featured on the 1st September 2010 . It falls under the category of Portfolio, and has a …
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CSS Design: Pancake Payments
Posted on 01. Sep, 2010 by Design Shack.
Pancake is a way to receive and track payments and project deliverables.
The cartoony illustration style is fun and the bright colors work well together. The overall design is quite clean with plenty of white space. This design was featured on the …
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21 Ridiculously Impressive HTML5 Canvas Experiments
Posted on 01. Sep, 2010 by Abhin Sharma.
HTML5 is the thing to talk about now-a-days. Today we have a collection of mind-blowing HTML5 canvas-based experiments that will make you say “Wow!” Let’s take a peek at some of the cutting edge examples out there. 1. 8 bit Color Cycle 2. Particle Letter Animation 3. Cloth Experiment This is one of the best [...]
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Google now indexes SVG
Posted on 01. Sep, 2010 by Maile Ohye.
Webmaster Level: AllYou can now use Google search to find SVG documents. SVG is an open, XML-based format for vector graphics with support for interactive elements. We’re big fans of open standards, and our mission is to organize the world’s inform…
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10 Twitter Tools That You Should Definitely Know About
Posted on 01. Sep, 2010 by Rishabh.
Twitter has gone large, really large. Everyone of us has seen the tremendous growth this nifty little service with just a basic and simple idea has gone over the years. The main thing that makes twitter so powerful is their API. The twitter API enables developers to develop their own custom twitter applications and tools. [...]
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Social Media Icons For Your Blog
Posted on 01. Sep, 2010 by Tony.
Social media icons play such a huge role in driving traffic to your blog or website. Most web designers today know the importance of using these social networks and incorporating them into their clients designs. Today I have assembled a collection of…
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Quick Tip: Working with MySQL and SUM
Posted on 31. Aug, 2010 by Burak Guzel.
In today’s quick tip screencast, we’re going to learn a MySQL query trick. You might be already familiar with the SUM() and IF() functions. We will be combining them to come up with some useful queries. This can reduce the number of queries you need to run for fetching certain types of summary data, and [...]
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A mower hour meter tip that can save you thousands $$$.
Posted on 31. Aug, 2010 by Lawn Care Business Marketing Tips - GopherHaul Blog.
Most commercial mowers will come with a factory installed hour meter mower. These meters are very important. They can tell you when you need to change your oil. When your mower will need an overhaul. Most importantly, they help determine the resale v…
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Discover What Type of Designer Are You?
Posted on 31. Aug, 2010 by Hilde Torbjornsen.
Just like there are different client types, and different people in general – there are a few different types of designers. In this article we will have a look at some of the characteristics of some of these and give you some tips on how to improve. Hopefully you will have a few good tips [...]
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Top Articles On The Web Design Community In August’10
Posted on 31. Aug, 2010 by Wajid Khan.
As we enter September 2010 , let’s take a look back at some of the most popular articles, resources, and tutorials that helped those who toiled away on the web everyday.
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Build an iPad-Themed Image Slider With jQuery
Posted on 31. Aug, 2010 by Design Shack.
If you’re not a seasoned web developer, it can be quite intimidating to approach a project where your client is looking for something trendy and interactive such as an Apple-centric slideshow. Today we’ll teach you how you can create just such a project in mere minutes using some awesome free resources from around the web. [...]
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August in Review: 19 New Resource Packs for Premier Members
Posted on 31. Aug, 2010 by Vandelay Website Design.
On August 1st we launched Vandelay Premier, a membership-based site that provides high-quality design resources and career resources. A lot has happened during our first month of operation, including the release of 19 new resources/packs! This post serves as a monthly roundup to display the new resources that are available for our members, as well as to list the new discounts that are available in the marketplace.
Free Texture Pack:
A few weeks ago we released the first free resource pack from Vandelay Premier. If you are not already a member you can still download this set of 4 textures as a sample of what is available.
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