Web site in progress for wedding officiant
I am currently working on a new web web site for a St Louis wedding officiant.Â
My client on this project did a great job picking out sites. I did a search on wedding officiants and about 90% of the sites out there are awful – bad design, impossible navigation, no call to action, unpolished and generally just yucky.Â
New web site for St Louis’ Hotshots sports Bar and Grill
Launched today is a new web site for Hotshots Sports Bar and Grill
http://www.hotshotsnet.com/index.html
With a warm appealing design, akin to walking into one of the nine locations in the St Louis area, the site features a free coupon sign up and calendar of events. A Hotshots shop will be added shortly.
This is not a web project
I recently turned my design skills to something other than web sites. It was an interesting project, the creative brief was to construct a crocodile costume for 4 dancers. The costume will be used in the production of Peter Pan by Wildwood Dance and Arts.
Here is the head (made of sculpture wire and papier mache) which will be held by the lead dancer, the three other dancers will be draped in fabric and the 4th dancer has a tail.
It was a lot of fun to make!
St Louis Jazz Cafe: opening soon
Opening March 21st is the much anticipated St Louis Jazz Café
I worked with Cafe owner Arnold Charleston in April last year in design of their logo. I love the way they have incorporated it into their web site.
Check it out at http://www.stlouisjazzcafe.com/
Updates to our web site
We have been swamped with work this week, a big SEO project, client web maintenance, and juggling 5 design projects, so the updates to our web site I announced last week are not going to happen…just yet. They are however well underway. If I can roll them out before the end of March I will be happy.
It is good to be busy, especially in this economic climate!
The quality of your web coding and SEO
Today I have been working on a site I recently took over.
The site has a clean well functioning design with no usability flaws. However it has not been doing well in the search engines for the keywords and phrases the client is targeting, so they have asked me to do some SEO work .
Delving into the code “behind” the site I have come across a number of problems that have not been helping the situation. The code is bloated beyond belief with font tags, span tags and nested tables. It appears that the original creator of the site had a “thing” about using tables…even simple lists were put into a table.
I have stripped away the superfluous code and used css to control the look and feel of the content. The code is cleaner and shorter ( from around 240 lines to 70 lines) and the web site looks exactly the same to the user.
Tomorrow I will work on adding elements that will enrich the keyword density of the pages.
The time commitment of blogging: St Louis web designers tip of the day
Blogging can be a great tool to add to your marketing mix. It can improve the visibility of your online presence and allow easy interaction with your clients and site visitors.
For small business owners serious about getting their sites to perform well in the search engines (internet marketing, SEO) I generally suggest adding a blog if … and this is a “big if”, they can devote the time to write it. A new blog will require at least two to three post a week for the first few months to get it rolling and at least one per week after that.
There is no way you can cheat either. I subscribed a year or so back to a blog which, until the weekend, appeared to be dead. However over the last few days posts have been rolling into my reader from this blog, all post dated. To readers new to the blog it looks like the blog has been updated on a regular basis …but the search engines will know better.
Coming up with regular fresh content can be a challenge, but you most definitely “reap what you sow”
The St Louis web designer Tip of the day
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