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That definitely looks much better. Now take this a step further and color that text above the phone number to Red so it stands out against the phone number (phone number is fine as is).

Then go through your paragraphs and maybe every few paragraphs find something that needs to stand out (partial sentence not full, specific word etc) and give it something different such as the bold, italicized, etc. so that certain things stand out that you need to be seen. This works well for key words as the focus.

Your footer is awkwardly high in height without enough content in it to justify the height. Put these parts on single lines instead of partial text on the lines:

"Serving due process of the law. Dignity and respect for all."

Copyright 2006 to Present - Colorado Process Servers™ - Denver Process Servers™ - All rights reserved.

Add a menu to the footer to get to the "main" pages of your website for extra navigation.

Put the following in red (not bold just red)
The following is our Registered Agent address only.
Please contact us via phone or email, for the correct address to send all documents and payments to!

Take the extra space out of the address

Find some more content for the Left column.

I think you'll be pleasantly pleased with the results.
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Jo Ann wrote:
That definitely looks much better. Now take this a step further and color that text above the phone number to Red so it stands out against the phone number (phone number is fine as is).


The whole of the text above the phone number? But how can I color it red, without adding more H tags?
Dark red, bright red? Slightly bright red?

Then go through your paragraphs and maybe every few paragraphs find something that needs to stand out (partial sentence not full, specific word etc) and give it something different such as the bold, italicized, etc. so that certain things stand out that you need to be seen. This works well for key words as the focus.


OK, thanks Jo Ann.

Your footer is awkwardly high in height without enough content in it to justify the height. Put these parts on single lines instead of partial text on the lines:

"Serving due process of the law. Dignity and respect for all."

Copyright 2006 to Present - Colorado Process Servers™ - Denver Process Servers™ - All rights reserved.


OK, good ideas.

Add a menu to the footer to get to the "main" pages of your website for extra navigation.


ACK! No thanks on that one. What advantage would yet another menu serve?
And frankly, most people don't even read below the "fold", do they?

Put the following in red (not bold just red)
The following is our Registered Agent address only.
Please contact us via phone or email, for the correct address to send all documents and payments to!

Take the extra space out of the address


OK, thanks.

Find some more content for the Left column.


Someone mentioned moving some of the right side stuff over there. but I'm not convinced, and it may just be personal preference on this point. I like continuous reading down the right column, and payment stuff on the left.

I think you'll be pleasantly pleased with the results.


Thanks!

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OK, check it out now! http://ColoradoProcessServers.net

Jo Ann, I even warmed up to moving some of the text to the left side, to balance it!

I think it looks great now, and thank you all for your suggestions!
This turned out to be a real "makeover". :)

As far as the photo, someone emailed me and said they LOVE it, they think it looks like a photo painting, and wish they could put a poster of it on their wall! I don't want to mess it up on the website, by adding the company name to it, but if I made a larger size of it available for a poster print for a wall, I WOULD add the company name. :lol:
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Say, is it possible to get the footer into the style.css file, so it appears on the bottom of every page without having to copy it to all pages?
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Ok here's next phase *evil grin* lol j/k :P

Top Right
My bad on the red at the top text, I should have said all but the Call Us so remove the red from the Call Us line above the phone number.

Left column:
Create some type of padding and/or margin for the text so it's not right up against the edge, and give it smaller areas so it's not so wide also so the text spans approx. a bit over 3/4 of the full width of that column which will make it more easily readable.
- Put this in Bold:
Digital Photography Services:
Maybe split up the above paragraph into 2 paragraphs if you can so it's not such a long piece of text.

Right Column
Put more padding/margin in the right column to space it a little further away from the left column so it's more separate looking which will make it also look easier to read. Make that space uniform both left and right the same in that column so it's the same amount of space from the right edge of the page as it is from the left column. Hopefully that makes sense.

Footer:
Take this out of your footer, that file is really only needed for search engines to find, you don't want your users reading that page, if you need the Sitemap up then put the link to the HTML file the program created there instead of the .xml file. Would also suggest you make that a named link rather than the full address link so something like:
<a href="sitemap.html" title="sitemap.html">Colorado Process Site Map</a>
fix the above link of course so it has the correct pathway etc.
*extra note on this link above* - Would be better if you added a new button on your main menu for it instead of a link in your footer if you need it viewable by the users. Otherwise remove the link completely as mentioned above.

Try those things and I think you'll be good to go. Looks a whole lot nicer than it did before Melissa, nice job so far :)



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Jo Ann wrote:

Top Right
My bad on the red at the top text, I should have said all but the Call Us so remove the red from the Call Us line above the phone number.


How's it now?

Left column:
Create some type of padding and/or margin for the text so it's not right up against the edge, and give it smaller areas so it's not so wide also so the text spans approx. a bit over 3/4 of the full width of that column which will make it more easily readable.


Not sure how to do that, will look at it later. Gotta go out and serve some people now. ( big evil grin ) :cool:

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Melissa Brookstone wrote:
Jo Ann wrote:

Top Right
My bad on the red at the top text, I should have said all but the Call Us so remove the red from the Call Us line above the phone number.


How's it now?

Left column:
Create some type of padding and/or margin for the text so it's not right up against the edge, and give it smaller areas so it's not so wide also so the text spans approx. a bit over 3/4 of the full width of that column which will make it more easily readable.


Not sure how to do that, will look at it later. Gotta go out and serve some people now. ( big evil grin ) :cool:


Looking better, still need more space around the text on both left and right columns, at least 2 times what you have there should be good.

Try this for that last part on the padding. Go into your CSS file and find these 2 lines:

.leftside { float:left; width:410px; border-top:1px solid #0000BE; padding:0 8px; text-align:justify; }
.rightside { float:left; width:537px; border-top:1px solid #0000BE; padding:0 8px; text-align:justify; }

Change them to this which I bolded what is changed in it for you below:
.leftside { float:left; width:410px; border-top:1px solid #0000BE; padding:0 20px; text-align:justify; }
.rightside { float:left; width:537px; border-top:1px solid #0000BE; padding:0 20px; text-align:justify; }
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That hosed it Jo Ann. It shifted all the text to weird places on the left, leaving a white space down the right and it looked all botched up. Even changing those to 10px does that.
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Melissa Brookstone wrote:
I'm still curious about this one. What's the advantage of having the phone number as text, if any?

And what possible advantage could be gained from having search engines pick it up?

Outside of when I was skip tracing someone, I cant recall anytime I've ever searched for a company by using a phone number I had.


Melissa,

This looks a ton better now. Jo Ann is steering you right. Keep going.

My comment regarding the phone number isn't about people searching for you by typing it into Google or similar. It's about being accessible. However, it looks as though you have already taken care of that, see below...

http://content.screencast.com/users/OfficialDave/folders/Snagit/media/97403b62-16a3-409d-b638-969acc692db5/09.22.2012-19.19.png

I want to preface this next section by telling you I am not one to post links to the sites I develop in this forum, ever. I don't believe in it but this screencap illustrates another point. Take a look at this...

http://content.screencast.com/users/OfficialDave/folders/Snagit/media/10f22e2d-45b8-487b-841e-07737c45b87d/09.22.2012-19.08.png

This is precisely how an entry for your website should look in Google. I have highlighted portions to show you how to use Google to build your business. You will notice you are missing page listings. Make sure all of your pages have < title > and < description > tags so they are listed here. Make page title short but meaningful like Home, Contact, Federal Rules, etc.. no more than 2-3 words max. Descriptions get truncated as you'll notice but don't get nuts writing too much. One or two sentences is fine.

Now, get in there and make more magic. Inspiration is perishable.
Let's not get all hurt.
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David, I believe those are Sitelinks and are considered the "holy grail" of Google listings, IF you can generate them, because your site shows up SO large that way. But I THINK, from what I've heard, that you need a large number of visitors to get them, you have to be a big site.

I do have title and description tags on all my pages, but I think you have to have very high traffic to have that many Sitelinks. The Sitelinks option in Adwords, for my site, said it only allows one for me.
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