Is this website giving the right message?

I am trying to make my website more efficient. I have set up Google
optimizer and here are the two different urls: <a href="http://
www.edpaintingonline.com/">Residential Painting</a>
<a href="http://www.edpaintingonline.com/House-Painting/Helping-
homeowners-with-housepainting-needs.html">Connecticut Painters</a>
The goal is to have as many people who need painting services to call
or contact me, keep in mind this is a local business not an online
business.
Any ideas on improvement?

Thanks,
Ermand

http://www.edpaintingonline.com/House-Painting/Helping-homeowners-with-housepainting-needs.html
here is the full second url

On 2009-09-27, ermand wrote:

http://www.edpaintingonline.com/House-Painting/Helping-homeowners-with-housepainting-needs.html
here is the full second url

<http://cfaj.freeshell.org/testing/edpaint.jpg>


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Shell Scripting Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach (2005, Apress)

ermand wrote:

I am trying to make my website more efficient. I have set up Google
optimizer and here are the two different urls: <a href="http://
www.edpaintingonline.com/">Residential Painting</a> <a
href="http://www.edpaintingonline.com/House-Painting/Helping-
homeowners-with-housepainting-needs.html">Connecticut Painters</a
The goal is to have as many people who need painting services to call
or contact me, keep in mind this is a local business not an online
business. Any ideas on improvement?

Thanks,
Ermand

"As a proffesional house painting contractor [comma?]"

"Properly protect large areas not to be painted with drop clothes, "
"Remove masking, drop clothes, and "

You're going to drop your trousers? Given the frequency, I'd guess
there are others, but I only scanned a few pages.

I don't care for the purple background of the pages...

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-bts
-Friends don't let friends drive Windows

In article
<09774380-7154-4286-b86e-9c3f5cb6ae04 (AT) m33g2000pri (DOT) googlegroups.com>,
ermand <ermd2003 (AT) gmail (DOT) com> wrote:

I am trying to make my website more efficient. I have set up Google
optimizer and here are the two different urls: <a href="http://
www.edpaintingonline.com/">Residential Painting</a
a href="http://www.edpaintingonline.com/House-Painting/Helping-
homeowners-with-housepainting-needs.html">Connecticut Painters</a
The goal is to have as many people who need painting services to call
or contact me, keep in mind this is a local business not an online
business.

I am glad you added that last sentence. It is important. You are making
clear that you are not in competition with those online painting
services - you know, the ones that paint houses by action at a distance.
<g>

As Chris was showing you in his jpg, in case you miss the point, your
design breaks and becomes hard to use for many people who use a text
size you are not expecting. See what happens when you go o the view menu
and enlarge text (not zooming all).

1. Don't do body {font-size: 13px;}, use 100% (best) or even 1em or no
style at all for body.

2. Don't generally use pixel sizes for fonts. Use em or %

3. Make the widths of the containers that text is in grow with user text
size by either not giving a width (boxes in the normal flow tend to grow
naturally to fit their content) or giving widths in em units.

4. Many people turn Flash off because there are too many ads with it and
this results in a big empty space that does not look great. At least
consider the pros and cons, don't assume everyone has it on.

5. Don't use line-height: 135%; on body unless you know what the
implications are. It is a tricky business. Just use 1.35 (no units) if
you don't want to study the issue. This is a bit too big a figure imo...

--
dorayme

On Sep 27, 3:37*pm, "Chris F.A. Johnson" <cfajohn... (AT) gmail (DOT) com> wrote:

On 2009-09-27, ermand wrote:
http://www.edpaintingonline.com/House-Painting/Helping-homeowners-wit...
here is the full second url

* *<http://cfaj.freeshell.org/testing/edpaint.jpg

--
* *Chris F.A. Johnson, webmaster * * * * <http://Woodbine-Gerrard.com
* *================================================= ==================
* *Author:
* *Shell Scripting Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach (2005, Apress)

What browser was this in???

On Sep 27, 6:16*pm, dorayme <doraymeRidT... (AT) optusnet (DOT) com.au> wrote:

In article
09774380-7154-4286-b86e-9c3f5cb6a... (AT) m33g2000pri (DOT) googlegroups.com>,

*ermand <ermd2... (AT) gmail (DOT) com> wrote:
I am trying to make my website more efficient. I have set up Google
optimizer and here are the two different urls: <a href="http://
www.edpaintingonline.com/">Residential Painting</a
a href="http://www.edpaintingonline.com/House-Painting/Helping-
homeowners-with-housepainting-needs.html">Connecticut Painters</a
The goal is to have as many people who need painting services to call
or contact me, keep in mind this is a local business not an online
business.

I am glad you added that last sentence. It is important. You are making
clear that you are not in competition with those online painting
services - you know, the ones that paint houses by action at a distance.
g

As Chris was showing you in his jpg, in case you miss the point, your
design breaks and becomes hard to use for many people who use a text
size you are not expecting. See what happens when you go o the view menu
and enlarge text (not zooming all).

1. Don't do body {font-size: 13px;}, use 100% (best) or even 1em or no
style at all for body.

2. Don't generally use pixel sizes for fonts. Use em or %

3. Make the widths of the containers that text is in grow with user text
size by either not giving a width (boxes in the normal flow tend to grow
naturally to fit their content) or giving widths in em units.

4. Many people turn Flash off because there are too many ads with it and
this results in a big empty space that does not look great. At least
consider the pros and cons, don't assume everyone has it on.

5. Don't use line-height: 135%; on body unless you know what the
implications are. It is a tricky business. Just use 1.35 (no units) if
you don't want to study the issue. This is a bit too big a figure imo...

--
dorayme

What do you use to find out text size line height etc?

On 2009-09-27, ermand wrote:

On Sep 27, 3:37?pm, "Chris F.A. Johnson" <cfajohn... (AT) gmail (DOT) com> wrote:
On 2009-09-27, ermand wrote:
http://www.edpaintingonline.com/House-Painting/Helping-homeowners-wit...
here is the full second url

? ?<http://cfaj.freeshell.org/testing/edpaint.jpg

What browser was this in???

The browser is irrelevant. You haven't allowed for people who use
larger font sizes than yours. The problem exists in all browsers
(though the manifestation may be different:
<http://cfaj.freeshell.org/testing/edpaint2.jpg>).

There plenty of room in the browser window for it to fit on one
line, but you unnecessarily (and with bad consequences) restrict the
width of your page.

--
Chris F.A. Johnson, webmaster <http://Woodbine-Gerrard.com>
================================================== =================
Author:
Shell Scripting Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach (2005, Apress)

On 2009-09-27, ermand wrote:

On Sep 27, 6:16?pm, dorayme <doraymeRidT... (AT) optusnet (DOT) com.au> wrote:
In article
09774380-7154-4286-b86e-9c3f5cb6a... (AT) m33g2000pri (DOT) googlegroups.com>,

?ermand <ermd2... (AT) gmail (DOT) com> wrote:
I am trying to make my website more efficient. I have set up Google
optimizer and here are the two different urls: <a href="http://
www.edpaintingonline.com/">Residential Painting</a
a href="http://www.edpaintingonline.com/House-Painting/Helping-
homeowners-with-housepainting-needs.html">Connecticut Painters</a
The goal is to have as many people who need painting services to call
or contact me, keep in mind this is a local business not an online
business.

I am glad you added that last sentence. It is important. You are making
clear that you are not in competition with those online painting
services - you know, the ones that paint houses by action at a distance.
g

As Chris was showing you in his jpg, in case you miss the point, your
design breaks and becomes hard to use for many people who use a text
size you are not expecting. See what happens when you go o the view menu
and enlarge text (not zooming all).

1. Don't do body {font-size: 13px;}, use 100% (best) or even 1em or no
style at all for body.

2. Don't generally use pixel sizes for fonts. Use em or %

3. Make the widths of the containers that text is in grow with user text
size by either not giving a width (boxes in the normal flow tend to grow
naturally to fit their content) or giving widths in em units.

4. Many people turn Flash off because there are too many ads with it and
this results in a big empty space that does not look great. At least
consider the pros and cons, don't assume everyone has it on.

5. Don't use line-height: 135%; on body unless you know what the
implications are. It is a tricky business. Just use 1.35 (no units) if
you don't want to study the issue. This is a bit too big a figure imo...

What do you use to find out text size line height etc?

Unless you change it, the line-height is 1.0.

--
Chris F.A. Johnson, webmaster <http://Woodbine-Gerrard.com>
================================================== =================
Author:
Shell Scripting Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach (2005, Apress)

In article <7iacmfF30t4t4U2 (AT) mid (DOT) individual.net>,
"Chris F.A. Johnson" <cfajohnson (AT) gmail (DOT) com> wrote:

What do you use to find out text size line height etc?

Unless you change it, the line-height is 1.0.

I forget details of the OPs site (already!) but line-height for most
browsers, via default CSS, more like 1.25 or so.

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dorayme