http://www.coded.ie/blog/index.php Tutorials, news, website launches and rants form Coded web design en-us Thu, 11 Aug 2011 12:00:00 GMT 2009-05-21 12:41:01 GMT href="http://dallas.example.com/rss.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" Coded.ie info@coded.ie (Coded Design) info@coded.ie (Coded Design) http://www.coded.ie/blog/blog-post.php?post_id=9 In a previous article we looked primarily at planning your website from the point of view of search optimisation and effective strategies to help position your site on search engines In the following article we focus on other aspects of a successful small business website design and how clear navigation can be used to best effect, enhancing your visitors experience and increasing the contacts and or sales that come through the site Website structure and navigation Having a clear, logical and structured approach to ordering the website pages is critical in enhancing your visitors experience once they arrive on the site Your web site’s navigation should naturally be centred mainly around your products or services Take a small business in the building industry They build new houses, extensions, do renovations, groundwork and house repairs also Thu, 11 Aug 2011 12:00:00 GMT http://www.coded.ie/blog/blog-post.php?post_id=9 http://www.coded.ie/blog/blog-post.php?post_id=8 First in a three part series of blog posts Website planning Perhaps you already have a business that needs a small business website or maybe are you are thinking of having a new startup business website You may have some good ideas about what you want the site to do for your business, how things might work, what the design might look like All very relevant, a good web developer will be very interested in those ideas, They will interpret your ideas and reflect them in the design and layout or the site Naturally the website design is very important The site should reflect your brand well and get your message across clearly to your visitors, whether you are building an e-commerce website or a brochure or services web site Sat, 16 Jul 2011 12:00:00 GMT http://www.coded.ie/blog/blog-post.php?post_id=8 http://www.coded.ie/blog/blog-post.php?post_id=7 CSS is a layout code format When used with a web page, it formats text, colours backgrounds and positions elements in the layout and more besides A new standard is developing within the CSS framework commonly known as CSS3 This is a major update to the original 21 standard which has been around now for several years So what does this mean for website owners? well it can mean several things, the possibility of faster websites by replacing many common design elements perviously constructed with the use of images like rounded corners or background gradients can now be executed with a few lines of code Tue, 21 Jun 2011 12:00:00 GMT http://www.coded.ie/blog/blog-post.php?post_id=7 http://www.coded.ie/blog/blog-post.php?post_id=6 One of our sites was featured on an RTE television program The Business with George Lee recently In the program George visited Kilkenny and looked at how the retail sector was responding to the recession He spoke with many business owners and listened to their stories and then went on to look at some businesses in more detail including that of our client Tue, 24 May 2011 12:00:00 GMT http://www.coded.ie/blog/blog-post.php?post_id=6 http://www.coded.ie/blog/blog-post.php?post_id=5 Writing quality content for your website is the single most effective way to market your site and improve your Google search result ranking in the (SERPs) search engine result pages This is widely known and has been written about by Google experts for some time now The old days In the days before Google and others changed the way search engines approached the indexing of sites, finding the content you expected to see after following a search engine result link was a bonus! Remember unsavoury material and spam links mixed down through the proper search results? Google provides its results by the way it weights the content it finds on a website It looks for the words entered in its search in key areas of your website and uses this and other on site and off site parameters to rank your site in its results You have total control over your sites content so why not maximise this marketing opportunity Sat, 05 Dec 2009 12:00:00 GMT http://www.coded.ie/blog/blog-post.php?post_id=5 http://www.coded.ie/blog/blog-post.php?post_id=3 Ranking well in organic searches on Google and other search engines for your chosen keywords is usually key to a successful web site strategy This can sometimes seem like an elusive or even impossible goal, and for some sites this is the case, without proper content and a structural revamp Link building Each inbound link from another website is interpreted by Google for example as an endorsement or vote for your website Google records these links when it visits web sites and stores them in its database When it comes to ranking your site in a search for a given keyphrase, Google looks for the relevant content on your site related to the search term entered It then looks for links to your site and others and determines the order of the search results presented to the user Mon, 23 Nov 2009 12:00:00 GMT http://www.coded.ie/blog/blog-post.php?post_id=3 http://www.coded.ie/blog/blog-post.php?post_id=2 How to set up an email address on your computer must be one of the most asked questions by our clients So here it is our very first tutorial How to set up an email address in Outlook Express Step 1 Open Outlook Express from the start menu Wed, 04 Nov 2009 12:00:00 GMT http://www.coded.ie/blog/blog-post.php?post_id=2