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I am in the process of building a website for AV8Services.

www.av8services.com

One thing that I wish to include is examples of some of the work that I've done for clients by way of pdf files.

Comments, observations, criticisms welcomed, I feel reasonably happy that I have solid foundations but in today's competitive marketplace want to be spot on.

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A quick glance shows a clean and practical site.

Why PDFs? Just personal preference but I'd rather have a page per example, with the option to d/l a PDF if I want (I don't like PDFs on websites). Plus having pages rather than PDFs is better for SEO

You have no basic SEO principles in place, but I'm presuming this is a work in progress? This may help: Internet Marketing Article - 20 steps to website heaven
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The text is really small to me. Less than 1mm high (unreadable).
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The text is really small to me. Less than 1mm high (unreadable).
Thank's Emma - can you let me know which version of browser and operating system you are using ?

Clearly need to fix this

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A quick glance shows a clean and practical site.

Why PDFs? Just personal preference but I'd rather have a page per example, with the option to d/l a PDF if I want (I don't like PDFs on websites). Plus having pages rather than PDFs is better for SEO

You have no basic SEO principles in place, but I'm presuming this is a work in progress? This may help: Internet Marketing Article - 20 steps to website heaven
Thanks Nikki - I like the idea of a d/l pdf married with a visible version and if it helps my SEO all the better.

Will read your article(s) as SEO is something that I want to at least grasp the fundamentals of and then perhaps talk / get quotes etc.

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The text looks fine to me - Vista, Firefox / Chrome - maybe it's an IE or Mac thing?
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Text OK here on a Mac - Safari 4 Beta and Firefox 3.0.10
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Adam / Nikki

Thanks looks like an IE thing - clearly needs to be fixed

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Internet explorer. Version 7.
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Internet explorer. Version 7.
Thks Emma - sorry I'd forgot that you had picked up on it as well

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Adam / Emma et al

It would appear that the IE issues with my website are now resolved

Can you confirm that is the case for you as well ?

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Fine for me in Safari/Firefox and IE 8
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Nice and legible here. Did you find out the problem?
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Thanks Emma.

It was a config issue, the tech support guys at Clikpic.com (hosting and site templates) reviewed my settings and found the problem.

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Hi,

It's a nice clean site. I'd agree that the case studies for the 'previous client' examples on the home page should be 'onsite' rather than PDF's (though no reason you can't put a PDF icon on each case study page as well, with the text "click here to download this case study in PDF format for easier printing" or something similar).
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hi, looks like a nice site, not all of your pictures are labelled (the cheese drop ones) and a little blurb about each event would make them more engaging. The examples of work done will add a lot to the site.

I think
"with clients ranging from airports, aviation magazines to aviation telecommunication specialists."
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"with clients ranging from airports and aviation magazines to aviation telecommunication specialists."
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