My website

[4seasons]

I guess I'm ready to get blasted!
Finally got my site up and going too:humble:!
I went the cheaper route also and had a friend of mine
put it together for me.
I know some things need tweaked a llitle or maybe
even alot:noidea:?
let me know what you think, cause I'm putting a list together
and will change some stuff in a few weeks.
thanks.
www.davisons4seasons.com

[SCgreenscapes]

Ok, I hope this comes off as constructive and not bashing.

1. I would take a differnt picture of your truck. The way the light is reflecting makes it look like there is a big dent going all the way down the side of the truck

2. with the photo gallery, i would stick with one theme. If you don't have before pics for all of your jobs, i would only show the after pics. I would also mix all your pics into one page and not multiple other pages by categorie. For some reason, when i first looked at your photo gallery, i said, gosh, this guy doesn't have any pictures. it took me a little while to notice the page markers at the top. I would do all pics on one page and then put "Page 2" at the bottom if you have more pics.

3. I would consider changing your email to "info@Davidson4Seasons.com" You should be able to set this up and have it forwarded to your other inbox. that way they don't have to remember a lot of information and helps with your branding. If everything to do with your company is "Davidsons4seasons", it is easy to remember the info part with out having to go back to the website to start an email.

4. Maybe consider changing the bottom colors from light grey to something darker like charcoal or black to get the center to pop off the page.

[4seasons]

Thanks SC
yeah I definitly wanna get a different pic of trucks, that one he threw in there.
I'll ask him about the email.

[GreenBoy]

I'd put the index on the side instead of the top. The empty space would be a great place to put it and is the natural place for people to look fir the index, took me a second to realize it was at the top since its small..

I agree with the truck and email comments as well.

All the work looks great!

You could also use the empty space on the sides for some pictures or collages of some pics/pic slideshows since that is the number one reason people will be visiting your site. You want to hook them at your home page and that may be one way to do it.

I'll look through it again later when I have some more time, off to class right now

[Pro Cut]

I agree with what SC said in the photo section. It took me a while to see the tabs up top for all the other pages.

[MuirView Design]

Bruce,

I had a chance to look through your site -

The first thing I did was go through the pictures. I think you have a good assortment of projects that you've done and I think you do nice work. However it's hard to glean that from the way the photos are arranged.

I like the pics you used on the services page. Except i would remove the time and date stamps from your pictures as they are a bit distracting. I think all of pics need some post processing to bring out their real beauty.

I would enlarge the font size on the home page. Remove the picture of the truck and replace it with the pic of the outdoor living space. (With the russian sage in the foreground). Except make the pic large enough to span across the whole page. The text on the home page is tough to read. If you want to keep it on the left side like that, don't indent the start of the each paragraph like you would on a letter.

I would also think about removing redundant pictures. I think a lot of us, when we first put up a site, want to use as many pictures as we can. In this respects, I think less is more, sometimes. I would pick the best of the best, crop them and enhance them and showcase just those pictures. Sometimes you can have 50 great pics and 5 mediocre pics and the mediocre pics will be the ones that stick in the clients head. Be very critical of what pics you put up and as your landscapes mature, always try to replace freshly installed pics, with more mature pics from a few seasons of growth. This will add a lot of lushness to your site and make it more desirable to a potential client.

I pulled a couple random pics off of your site and did some quick post processing to them to demonstrate the difference it can make. A little cropping, color adjustment, tweaking the exposure, etc. Of course the resolution was really low to begin with, but you can definitely see improvement. After all, our pictures are what sells our services.

[Harmony Design Group]

Nice work Adam. I am sure there are a lot of people in need of your computer skills!!

[bcwsport]

Nice Adam, what software did you use? You can actually do stuff like that with picasa.

craig

[MuirView Design]

I use Photoshop CS3. I haven't tried Picasa, but I'm sure it's good at what it does.

[bcwsport]

It's just easy & free, but it can do simple upgrades to pics like these you have worked with here.