Website Review

[toddpianoworks]

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Okay, hopefully for the final time, could you please check out my index page?

[CarbonTerry]

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Great...page load time 12 seconds !!!!! woohooo !!!
I notice that there is not link to the home page in your navigation.
How will I get to the home page from another page? (hint: don't say "use the back button")
You should be able to get to all pages from any page in one click.
The page title "Houston Piano Tuning and Repair"
For SEO purposes "Piano Tuning & Repair in Houston" would be better.
Using a keyword as the first word.
You need text on the page explaining the purpose of the site. That's how SE's will send customers to you.
If someone in Houston need piano repair they will search for "piano repair in Houston"
Go to Page Properties and complete "Page Description"
Get rid of the visitor counter and enter some text about how good your service is.
You can check stats in CPanel.

[CarbonTerry]

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What the heck. Here's the other 2 images reduced.
Facebook and the brown bar.
It's important that you understand that if you reduce image size using the "handles" the electronic size does not reduce.

[toddpianoworks]

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I have a "home" link on all the other pages, just not on my home page. I figured, why have that link on the main page when they are already home.

Thanks for all the suggestions, I'll work through them.

Also, when I enter keywords, does that help with the SE results?

[Collectors-info]

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Be careful when using the bullet lists as they can look odd in some browsers.
IE: Fire fox looks like below. Notice the "W" instead of the bullet. Usually find the insert image in the bullet list best way.


Repair

Minor repairs and adjustments can usually be made at your tuning appointment. Remember, regular maintenance can help prevent expensive repairs in the future.
Minor repairs and adjustments may include:

wLoose or missing keytops

wBroken or sticking keys

wBroken strings

wBroken hammer shanks

[CarbonTerry]

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IF you enter keywords they MUST also appear in text on the page. A maximum of 20 keywords/keyword phrases.
My mistake on the navigation. you haven't edited the other pages and I cannot see the top of the navigation bar.
The only other reason to have "home" in your nav bar is to prevent the menu from appearing to "jump" when you go from the home page to another page.

[toddpianoworks]

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The only other issue I seem to be having is this:

I made my header into a .png file which eliminated having it appear differently on different browsers/computers. You will notice I have a link "Send Me an E-mail" under my contact number, however, I couldn't create it as part of the .png file because it is a link. But now, when the page loads, you see a white box for a moment before the link appears. It is kind of annoying me. I made the background color the same as the header background, but it still seems to be a little off.

Any suggestions here?

[toddpianoworks]

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Konrad,

Can you suggest a better facebook badge?

[marciemayer]

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On 'services offered' the FB badge briefly appears when loading and then is hidden behind the background shape. Don't have a FB badge to suggest but agree that this one is not very attractive.

Great site, very clean and precise and I would definetely hire you to tune my piano, if I had one! Really, the site is professional and looks like it is owned by someone that knows what they are doing.

[toddpianoworks]

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Thank you Marcie!

If you had a piano, you should hire me! I want to go to Greece. I'd even pay my own travel expense

[CarbonTerry]

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Vivian,
This is SPAM
Your signature is against TOS

[reemaada]

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Thanks, I will read those links regarding optimizing my pics for load time.

[yogi44]

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It looks fine in IE.