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Old 03-10-2007, 07:05 PM posted to uk.rec.gardening
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Default Can I design something that will be useful while gardening?




"Sacha" wrote in message
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On 3/10/07 18:52, in article , "Nick
Maclaren" wrote:


In article ,
Sacha writes:
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| I don't think it's junk but I think it needs careful proof-reading by
| someone other than its designer. There are spelling and punctuation
| mistakes as in 'accidently' instead of 'accidentally' and 'your' when
it
| should be 'you're'. Small things but not confidence inspiring if
| repetitive.

I spent a few minutes on it, and it did nothing but change content-free
boxes on me and display the odd, equally content-free, message.

My suspicion is that anything interesting is in the flash.

You spent longer than I did, then. I was interested to see if it would
load
because others had trouble with it. I found I had to click on it twice to
make it load but it did work. I think that's probably a small hiccup that
can be corrected easily. But the spelling and grammatical errors did hit
my
eye immediately. Maybe that's a personal idiosyncrasy but it is
certainly
something I find irritating and which would not scream 'professional' to
me.
All of us can make mistakes but these led me to feel they were not
mistakes
but habit, which is why I suggested someone else should proof-read the
site.
This is a young person so getting it right now and learning from the
experience is going to be invaluable in the future. Whatever one is
selling, successful people know that your message to the buyer has to be
clear and if it's intended to inform, it has to be well-written.

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Sacha


So someone who has come to clean your windows has to be able to spell and
put a sentence together?

We didn't see how or what our window cleaner wrote, but we sacked him
because he couldn't clean the windows :-((

Kindly yours

Mike


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