Comments on: Who should do your website design? SEO 101 http://kickasswebdesign.com/wordpress/2007/06/who-should-do-your-website-design-seo-101/ Kickass info re CSS, WordPress Themes, ModX Templates, CubeCart Templates, CMS Templates, WebDev News, and occasional weird personal observations. Thu, 28 Aug 2008 16:29:05 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: BJ http://kickasswebdesign.com/wordpress/2007/06/who-should-do-your-website-design-seo-101/#comment-6467 BJ Sat, 07 Jul 2007 03:04:52 +0000 http://kickasswebdesign.com/wordpress/2007/06/who-should-do-your-website-design-seo-101/#comment-6467 Hosting a site and designing/building/creating a site are different things. She told me the site was created by her son in law. If that information is wrong, then take it up with her. BTW, creating a site yourself using a sitebuilder tool or having a relative/friend/kid next door do it is going to result in the same thing-- a site that does nothing. A site that doesn't do well in search engine returns if it shows up at all. This violin teacher's site did not have A SINGLE PAGE indexed in Google before I gave her a link. That is the point of this whole exercise. She now has a search engine presence. She didn't before. I rest my case. Hosting a site and designing/building/creating a site are different things. She told me the site was created by her son in law. If that information is wrong, then take it up with her.

BTW, creating a site yourself using a sitebuilder tool or having a relative/friend/kid next door do it is going to result in the same thing– a site that does nothing. A site that doesn’t do well in search engine returns if it shows up at all. This violin teacher’s site did not have A SINGLE PAGE indexed in Google before I gave her a link. That is the point of this whole exercise. She now has a search engine presence. She didn’t before. I rest my case.

]]> By: Michelle http://kickasswebdesign.com/wordpress/2007/06/who-should-do-your-website-design-seo-101/#comment-6466 Michelle Sat, 07 Jul 2007 01:38:47 +0000 http://kickasswebdesign.com/wordpress/2007/06/who-should-do-your-website-design-seo-101/#comment-6466 hello if I may put my opinion about this... the violin teacher you met in the coffee shops' son in law has graciously been hosting the web site and has nothing to do with the design Helen is using Yahoo Page builder and I also used this and use this to build my web page and Jeff is hardly a Hobbyist he is able to write and produce sites and has years of experience so I appreciate you allowing me to add my feeling about this as I was as you can imagine shocked to read this! Thankyou! hello if I may put my opinion about this…
the violin teacher you met in the coffee shops’ son in law has graciously been hosting the web site and has nothing to do with the design Helen is using Yahoo Page builder and I also used this and use this to build my web page and Jeff is hardly a Hobbyist he is able to write and produce sites and has years of experience so I appreciate you allowing me to add my feeling about this as I was as you can imagine shocked to read this!
Thankyou!

]]> By: Website Design and the Small Businessperson http://kickasswebdesign.com/wordpress/2007/06/who-should-do-your-website-design-seo-101/#comment-6311 Website Design and the Small Businessperson Sun, 24 Jun 2007 04:41:25 +0000 http://kickasswebdesign.com/wordpress/2007/06/who-should-do-your-website-design-seo-101/#comment-6311 [...] I got into a discussion today with another person who had a site designed by a friend, which has to be almost as bad as having your website designed by your son in law. I’m not going to link to it, since it’s so very out of date, but the site is GORGEOUS and the design suits the business so very well that I could have guessed instantly without even reading the lettering in the masthead who this site belongs to. I like the design so much I wish I could say I did it! And the site does come up in the search engines somewhat okay for the expected keyphrases, though it could be better yet. The only problem, and it’s a HUGE one, is that it’s done in Dreamweaver as a static html site and the friend who did the site and has ftp access is NEVER available for updating. The business in question is a local cafe with live music, and has a regular calendar of events. This is a HUGE problem, especially since the business is at “the hump”– the one where if you go over it you’re in business for 10 to 20 years or so, and if you don’t you go bust. And it’s even more critical since the last time the site was updated was a year ago, and the site was put up approximately 13 months ago. There are still unfinished pages, with “Coming Soon!” notices on them that have been there that long. [...] [...] I got into a discussion today with another person who had a site designed by a friend, which has to be almost as bad as having your website designed by your son in law. I’m not going to link to it, since it’s so very out of date, but the site is GORGEOUS and the design suits the business so very well that I could have guessed instantly without even reading the lettering in the masthead who this site belongs to. I like the design so much I wish I could say I did it! And the site does come up in the search engines somewhat okay for the expected keyphrases, though it could be better yet. The only problem, and it’s a HUGE one, is that it’s done in Dreamweaver as a static html site and the friend who did the site and has ftp access is NEVER available for updating. The business in question is a local cafe with live music, and has a regular calendar of events. This is a HUGE problem, especially since the business is at “the hump”– the one where if you go over it you’re in business for 10 to 20 years or so, and if you don’t you go bust. And it’s even more critical since the last time the site was updated was a year ago, and the site was put up approximately 13 months ago. There are still unfinished pages, with “Coming Soon!” notices on them that have been there that long. [...]

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