<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=iso-8859-1"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div apple-content-edited="true"><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; border-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; border-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">On Mar 4, 2013, at 12:25 PM, John Formsma <<a href="mailto:formsma@gmail.com">formsma@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div></span></div></span></div></div><div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="line-height:15px;text-align:left;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">Just posted the following to the PTG-L forum on HL. If you care to express your opinion there, I think now is the time to. ~JF</span></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="line-height:15px;text-align:left;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><br></span></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="line-height:15px;text-align:left;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><br></span></div><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 15px; text-align: left; ">I'm not posting </span><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 15px;">anything with the PTG-L or anywhere else on the PT</span></font><span style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 15px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; ">G </span><span style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 15px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; ">website</span><span style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 15px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; ">! If they cared about what we think, they would not have eliminated the pianotech forum. Waste of time and energy!</span></div><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"><span style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 15px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; "><br></span></div><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"><span style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 15px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; "><br></span></div><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Lucida Calligraphy'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px; "><i>Al -</i></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Lucida Calligraphy'"><i>High Point, NC</i></font></div></div>
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<span style="font-size:13px;line-height:15px;text-align:left;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">So, the subject line pretty much says how I see it.</span><br style="font-size:13px;line-height:15px;text-align:left;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">
<br style="font-size:13px;line-height:15px;text-align:left;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:13px;line-height:15px;text-align:left;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">The opening page for how the world sees PTG does not look attractive or professional. (In my opinion, of course.) Even the opening page for the "Master Piano Technicians" looks better. That brown color just doesn't do anything for us--YUCK!</span><br style="font-size:13px;line-height:15px;text-align:left;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">
<br style="font-size:13px;line-height:15px;text-align:left;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:13px;line-height:15px;text-align:left;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">I have thought this ever since the Higher Logic stuff was implemented two years ago. Since the web page has the HL look, I assume the reason the page appears this way is that it's connected to the HL backbone.</span><br style="font-size:13px;line-height:15px;text-align:left;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">
<br style="font-size:13px;line-height:15px;text-align:left;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:13px;line-height:15px;text-align:left;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">If we are the place of top-level piano service and inviting others to provide top-level service, we ought to have a sharp-looking website. What we have is not that. It's so dull and uninviting. </span><br style="font-size:13px;line-height:15px;text-align:left;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">
<br style="font-size:13px;line-height:15px;text-align:left;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:13px;line-height:15px;text-align:left;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">All that said, are there others who think the same? How are we supposed to go about requesting changes like this?</span><br>
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