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Northie wrote:

Firstly - well done!

The new site's looking great already, but still very web 1.1; have you explored web 2.0 yet?

[web 1.1 and web 2.0 are terms for design/interaction concepts rather than new hard/software]

Fair point, but the difficulty I have is that our market is very split - on one hand we have architects who would 'get' the added interaction of web 2.0 stuff - but experience says, even that is minimal. I think they would also appreciate the web 2.0 design style...

Our other clients are builders/contractors who really don't get anything - many still run on faxes rather than emails for quotes etc(and that's big companies with multi-million pound turnovers!). Trying to persuade them to interact in any way could be difficult. Experience says they need a site they feel like they can trust, but not a lot else....after that they want to call you and send a fax....

Its a hard call, but I don't think our market is ready for web 2.0 stuff yet - however, when the company has the cash for a proper site rebuild in a couple of years time....

Wow…first I got an email yesterday morning saying how much the sender liked SR, now I see this, this morning…love starting my days off like that!

Thanks a lot Matt- I’m sure everyone who spends their valuable time helping people here appreciates hearing positive comments like that 

But on a serious note…let’s talk about those beers… hehe (jk)

Hey why not post the new site for a review?

matt_outandabout wrote:

New site- will post it up when complete.

One question - do the <h1> <h2> tags make a big difference? Me being a muppet is making a hash of changing the <title> tag to <h2> and <h2>....

Do you mean; is there a measurable difference between a H1 and H2?

Or do using prominence factors (bold, italic,H1-5,bullets) make a difference?

My common sense advice, is to look at a magazine. They use a wide variety of prominence factors. This is not only good for a search engine but for your marketing efforts as far as a 'call to action' - 'unique selling proposition' areas are concerned as well.

It is a good habit most certainly on many levels

matte wrote:

and of course <title> is different from H1 - unless I missed something?

I think that is my slight confuzzlement....

There is <title> in the head to to title the page.

but I then also have <title> as the headings in grey on the way down... hmmm

my mistake, its a <div class="title">