This simply goes to prove that there is always more than one way to learn something. There is a lot of basic but key lessons to this song. Listen and learn. If you already know all of this, you will at least enjoy the entertainment value of it and your brain will benefit from reiterating facts once again. Enjoy!
The ramblings of web developer Beau Brownlee
Einstein
Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts
September 30th, 2008 at 12:27 pm
Design and Coding
The design of your site and the coding of your site are key components to how your site is optimized and the conversion you get. If you design and code it right, it’ll work for you. Check it out:
Your site design is the first thing people see. It should be reflective of you and the industry. Easy to look at with a nice navigation, when they can’t find what they want it causes frustration. A quick call to action to increase the temptation, you should use appealing graphics, they create motivation. If you have animation, please use in moderation cuz search enginges can’t index the information. Display the logos of all associations. Highlite your contact info, that’s an obligation. Create a clean design, you can lose the decoration but try to prevent any client hesitation. Every page that they click should provide an explanation. Should be easy to understand like having a conversation. Create a site style, you can use your imagination but make sure you use correct color combinations. Do some investigation, look at other organizations but don’t duplicate or you might face litigation. You’re done? Congratulations. Start construction, move into production. Please follow these instructions: Your photoshop functions? Slice that design! Do your layout with this: make sure that it’s aligned. Please don’t use tables even though they work fine. When it comes to indexin they give search engines a hard time. Make it easy for the spiders to crawl what you provide. Remove font type, font color and font size. No background colors. Keep your coding real neat. And tag your look and feel along a separate stylesheet. Better results with xml and css. Now you’re making progress a little closer to success. Describe the doctype so the browser can relate. Make sure you do it great or it won’t validate. Checking all browsers? I do it directly. Gotta make sure that it renders correctly. Some us IE, some others use Flock. Some use AOL, I use Firefox. Title everything including links and images. Don’t use italics, use emphasis. Don’t use bold, please use strong cuz if you use bold that’s old and wrong. If you use css you’re page will load quicker. Your client’s satisfied like they eatin on a snicka. They stuck on your page like you made it with a sticka. In the end they convert, now that’s the real kicker. Make you a little richer, your site a little slicker. Design and code right. Man I hope you get the picture. What I’m telling you is true. Man it should be a scripture. If it’s build right you’ll be the pick of the litter. Everyone’ll wanna follow you like twitter. competition’ll get bitter, you’ll sign like glitter. If you’re trying to grow, your company’ll get bigger. Design and code right, man can you get with it?
Design and Coding