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HamSandwich
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Jan 21, 2016, 11:20 AM
 
Hey,

I designed a website for my mum and for the many books she has written. Can you help me with the English? A native speaker should browse the website and point me to the main mistakes.

This is the URL: www.designbooks.de

Please help.

Greetings,
PeterParker
     
osiris
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Jan 21, 2016, 12:53 PM
 
I took a shot at the intro page (If I am correctly interpreting your message)

2002
Less is more.
With or without a lot of money,
you need to have good ideas.

This book presents over 60 projects
from consumer and industrial goods,
to IT and service branches - from 6 to 130 square meters.

You will find a pool of different ideas
explaining how concepts can evolve into reality.

With information on planning, object data, materials, and construction.
"Faster, faster! 'Till the thrill of speed overcomes the fear of death." - HST
     
andi*pandi
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Jan 21, 2016, 01:09 PM
 
1995

the guest will notice, not notive

however the whole paragraph is confusing.
     
subego
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Jan 21, 2016, 02:42 PM
 
Who is the audience for these books?

Who is meant to be reading/buying them will determine the tone of the description.
     
HamSandwich
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Feb 15, 2016, 03:07 PM
 
The books are for interior designers as well as owners of restaurants, cafés and stores, and holders of exhibitions in addition.

I also need some help with using the web site on an iPad. To be honest, all the texts are images, so I didn't have to mess with CSS or so. However, the images don't look so good on (normal) iPads, not mini or Pro. It looks as if some resizing had happened. I don't know what resolution the iPad tells the browser, but it looks flawed...
(I also checked on an iPad Pro and there are several pixels of the right side missing, which is not so good....)
     
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Feb 18, 2016, 12:57 PM
 
It is current best practice for websites to not use images for text, wherever possible. Using images limits your search results, google ranking, accessibility for the blind, etc.
There are many nice webfonts available now so you don't need an image to make the site have a nice font.
     
   
 
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