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Sseddon

Websites & poor grammar
« on: August 17, 2010, 03:16:13 pm »
As you may know I started to build a round in July. My dad was a wc and so was his. I have another business www.audiobookbargains.co.uk but it has been hit by a series of issues that mean it is dwindling.

Anyway, clearly people here recognise the value of websites, but most I have seen have numerous typos/grammar problems that will certainly put off some customers. Especially commercial customers. If anybody wishes these things put right I'll happily do it for £25 a site. I'll send a Paypal invoice.

Background wise, I have an English degree plus 10 years developing & editing e-learning courses, so more than able to provide this.




sunshine windows

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Re: Websites & poor grammar
« Reply #1 on: August 17, 2010, 04:09:03 pm »
Hi AGleam,

How much to re-write the wording on a whole website.

I've had one built for me but did the wording myself and not very happy with it.

Can you give any examples of your past work?

Lance
To climb mount fuji you must first find a path
(Swindon, Wiltshire)

www.sunshinewindowcleaning.co.uk
www.sunshinesoftwashing.co.uk

Ian101

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Re: Websites & poor grammar
« Reply #2 on: August 17, 2010, 04:11:51 pm »
dont now wot you mean my spelling and gramer is word perfuct  ;D

Sseddon

Re: Websites & poor grammar
« Reply #3 on: August 17, 2010, 05:00:30 pm »
Hi Sunshine, you can look at my website, but other than that, no. I can't give examples. But I can promise you a grammatically correct site. I will copy your text and all you have to do is paste it back.

If I were picky, there are 18 grammatical errors on your homepage.

gewindows

Re: Websites & poor grammar
« Reply #4 on: August 17, 2010, 05:20:08 pm »


If I were picky, there are 18 grammatical errors on your homepage.

19 actually.

AuRavelling79

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Re: Websites & poor grammar
« Reply #5 on: August 17, 2010, 05:32:51 pm »
As you may know I started to build a round in July. My dad was a wc and so was his. I have another business www.audiobookbargains.co.uk but it has been hit by a series of issues that mean it is dwindling.

Anyway, clearly people here recognise the value of websites, but most I have seen have numerous typos/grammar problems that will certainly put off some customers. Especially commercial customers. If anybody wishes these things put right I'll happily do it for £25 a site. I'll send a Paypal invoice.

Background wise, I have an English degree plus 10 years developing & editing e-learning courses, so more than able to provide this.




Shouldn't there be "I am" inserted between "so" and "more"?
It's a game of three halves!

paul saunders

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Re: Websites & poor grammar
« Reply #6 on: August 17, 2010, 05:46:46 pm »
As you may know I started to build a round in July. My dad was a wc and so was his. I have another business www.audiobookbargains.co.uk but it has been hit by a series of issues that mean it is dwindling.

Anyway, clearly people here recognise the value of websites, but most I have seen have numerous typos/grammar problems that will certainly put off some customers. Especially commercial customers. If anybody wishes these things put right I'll happily do it for £25 a site. I'll send a Paypal invoice.

Background wise, I have an English degree plus 10 years developing & editing e-learning courses, so more than able to provide this.




Shouldn't there be "I am" inserted between "so" and "more"?

 ;D ;D ;D love it.
I can remember when waking up stiff in the morning was a good thing.

Paul Coleman

Re: Websites & poor grammar
« Reply #7 on: August 17, 2010, 06:31:35 pm »
Should background wise be one word - if it's any word at all?  ;D .
Sorry Agleam.  If you're new here, you've just walked into a lions' den.  No offence.
Joking aside, you are correct in saying that many sites would look much better if grammar and spelling were improved.
I don't normally proof read my posts but I made an exception for this one  ;D .

david watts

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Re: Websites & poor grammar
« Reply #8 on: August 17, 2010, 06:36:49 pm »
defo be a better earner than cleening windows puting speling wright on ere
life is like a box of chocolates you get the crap no one else wants

david watts

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Re: Websites & poor grammar
« Reply #9 on: August 17, 2010, 06:37:41 pm »
defo be a better earner than cleening windows puting speling wright on ere
forgot to ad m8
life is like a box of chocolates you get the crap no one else wants

Re: Websites & poor grammar
« Reply #10 on: August 17, 2010, 06:50:19 pm »
Give over, for one thing spelling and grammar is much more relaxed and pliable these days, and on a forum it's a case of mucking in with the lads.
For many, english isn't a first language, and what about those that have that LOL tics, or use emoticoms because they have a very small vocabulary.

But i must say, pendantic window cleaners, wnat next?

Nathanael Jones

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Re: Websites & poor grammar
« Reply #11 on: August 17, 2010, 06:55:47 pm »
Spelling and grammar on the forums isn't important,.. when trying to convey a professional image from your website it is essential though.

I would suggest that Agleam read a few books on the language of marketing & combine his spell-checking with a "re-wording to sell better" service. Both services have the potential to dramatically boost the effectiveness of a website.

Susan @ MB Window Cleaning

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Re: Websites & poor grammar
« Reply #12 on: August 17, 2010, 07:03:25 pm »
Give over, for one thing spelling and grammar is much more relaxed and pliable these days, and on a forum it's a case of mucking in with the lads.
For many, english isn't a first language, and what about those that have that LOL tics, or use emoticoms because they have a very small vocabulary.

But i must say, pendantic window cleaners, wnat next?



Very funny Slump.




Matt

rg1

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Re: Websites & poor grammar
« Reply #13 on: August 17, 2010, 07:24:13 pm »
I finished early today and saw this post soon after it was posted. I just knew that people would try to find fault with the grammer & spelling of the post as well as trying to redicule the guy and generally shooting him down in flames.

He's just trying to make a few quid by helping others.

What's wrong with that?? :o
The pen is mightier than the sword (and a lot easier to write with!)

leights

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Re: Websites & poor grammar
« Reply #14 on: August 17, 2010, 07:29:20 pm »
there are 5 on my site, if you find them il pay you to change it, i can only see 3.
visit    www.goldoakwindowcleaning.co.uk

cheers
better than all the rest

Re: Websites & poor grammar
« Reply #15 on: August 17, 2010, 07:33:35 pm »
I'm interested in biz aglean, what are the issues with the audio book biz?

I'm a keen reader too, and these days that's mostly biz books.Someone on here started a thread and gave a free e version download of a book that was over seventy years old.i had a bit of a read and thought it dated- but because it's supposed to be the best selling book of all time- i had another peak.It turned out to be quite good, it was by a chap called napoleon hill and was called think and grow rich.

I'll have a look at your website and tell you what i think- if you want, you might not.One problem before i look, it's not targeting blind people is it?How can they see it?

See told you i was good.

Re: Websites & poor grammar
« Reply #16 on: August 17, 2010, 07:52:56 pm »
Hrrrmph, can't help some people, i must be the target market, educated ,affluent, big reader, AND , owner of an ipod nano.
The audio books seem a bit pricey.Videos are cheaper than audio books, and they have to be posted as CD's you can't download them.

Ian_Giles

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Re: Websites & poor grammar
« Reply #17 on: August 17, 2010, 08:27:52 pm »
Mmm...always easy to pick holes in grammar and how a post might be worded, but if you can read it and understand it without having to continually re-read a sentence or paragraph, well, you can't be doing that much wrong....spelling notwithstanding though!

A mate of mine showed me a letter he had composed, it was absolutely flawless, correct in every grammatical detail...and utterly dead and lifeless as a result.

Recently I...er..sort of re-wrote and fleshed out some coursework my partner had done, some of which she wasn't at all happy with; however, in it stayed and with some reluctance was duly handed in...and got her top marks as a result! Yeah, yeah, bad of me I know, but it worked.

Websites don't have to be boring or look like they've been penned by a Victorian scribe, sat at a wooden desk using a quill and inkwell.  :o

Bah! Got carried away there with my vision of a scribe, had about half a dozen lines of descriptive narrative to delete...sigh, see? I'm doing it again!
But if any of you have read this and smiled, even a little then you get my point; grammatical precision isn't always necessary, even when wishing to give the impression of professionalism.

Er...not that I was trying to with the above I might add!


Ian
Ian. ISM CLEANING SERVICES

Re: Websites & poor grammar
« Reply #18 on: August 17, 2010, 08:55:12 pm »
More to the point i'm trying to give the bloke a few pointers and he blanks me.

i got into a big row about this at school once.A girl let me copy her history homework fifteen minutes before the lesson.It was two and a half pages so i had to blast it down.The conditon had been that i should change it so the teacher wouldn't know it hab been copied.

Everything was fine untill i got an A+ and the girl only got a B.The girl was fuming, she told the teacher and never let me copy again.That's girls.

mci services

Re: Websites & poor grammar
« Reply #19 on: August 17, 2010, 09:09:10 pm »
there are 5 on my site, if you find them il pay you to change it, i can only see 3.
visit    www.goldoakwindowcleaning.co.uk

cheers
I found five by the time I got to the fourth page ;) so there is probably more