Advertising for ‘09

Well I spent some time with the graphics designer this week and now I have the graphics done for the advertising I want to do this year. (click for larger version)

First is a new business card:

Front

Back

Next we have the Postcards that I will be distributing to select areas in Windsor, LaSalle and Tecumseh:

Front

Back

Also we have a Yellow Page ad that will be going into the Landscape Contractors section of the next Windsor and area Yellow Pages:

Vehicle repairs

I took my ‘02 2500HD in today to have it looked at, the front end suspension needs a lot of work, the universal for the front wheels is broken, the pitman arm, sway bar, ball joints, front brakes (pads and rotors) and some other stuff all need to be replaced as well as the rear axle seals needing replacement. Total cost $3000, this is price you have to pay for using a vehicle to snow plow.

Oh well, you have to pay to play. Still sucks though.

I’d just like to say Macdonald’s Automotive in Windsor did a great job and did the repairs promptly. The truck is running great now so thank you Barb and all the guys in the shop.

First landscaping quote of ‘09

Well I got my first quote for ‘09 on Belleperche in Windsor, thanks to Adrian for the referral. I used a new program to edit a picture of the house and add my design to help the home owner visualize what the finished landscaping will look like.

This is the original picture (click for larger image):

And this is what it looks like after editing with the landscape design program (click for larger image):

Now we just have to wait till spring to get started!

IE 6 the bane of my existence

Well I thought the website was done, it looked good in IE 7 but in IE 6 a bunch of things were messed up.

After a lot of pulling my hair out I finally got it to work, thanks to my computer scientist buddies for there help.

Please people, if you have IE 6, for the love of all things good upgrade to IE 7 or the latest FireFox. IE 6 has a list of bugs longer than my arm.

Pictures are uploaded

I uploaded pictures of a couple of the jobs I did last year. I kept forgeting to take before pictures and some I just neglected to take pictures of period. I’m going to try to be more on the ball about that this year. Anyway head on over to the portfolio to check them out.

Websites done (mostly)

I have finally gotten the hard part of the website, the code, done. Now all I have to do is add some content, this is just posting pictures, adding articles, and so on.

Hello world!

Welcome to the blog for my company, Precedence Landscaping. I’m Scott and I hope you’ll enjoy reading this blog and find some of the information I post here useful.