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Van Dealer Group
Posted in: Blog by admin on December 15, 2009
WWW.FORDTRANSITDIRECT.CO.UK
When approached by a Major multi-million pound automotive dealer group to inspire, project manage and promote their new website from the ground up we were excited to say the least. For such a large company to truly put there faith into us was very awe inspiring.
The brief was as follows:
Optimising your website for spiders
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Optimizing for Spiders
Of course, there is more to SEO than user experience. For instance, a common design mistake is the use of ‘splash pages’ – a home page or main entry page with only a large image with a link to an inner page. While users may find it ar‐resting or interesting, a splash page will hurt your site because it keeps you from using keyword‐rich text and links, and often redirects automatically to another page.
Use valid, error‐free source code
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Make sure that search engines don’t come up against badly coded pages. The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has established global standards for HTML and CSS in web pages. In addition to testing for cross‐browser functionality, test each page of your website for errors by using W3C’s validator.
All sites produced by webdesignpreston.org.uk will be checked and re-checked to ensure they are error free
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Usability in Design
Posted in: Blog by admin on November 15, 2009
The internet is all about convenience. Visitors have short attention spans and deeply entrenched surfing habits, so your website should be designed to make their navigation and reading experience as easy as possible. For instance, most users expect to find the site logo on the top left of a website, and to be able to get to the homepage by clicking on it. Contrasting background colors and large images also make for an effortless browsing experience.