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redesign is html why? 1515 Responses

Last post: 4 months, 1 week ago | Thread started: May 2, 08, 6:45 p.m.

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  • joelski

    alot of people are redesigning their sites in html because it easier for SEO...you can SEO in flash but its a bit of a process....my thought on this do I want the sort of clients that are finding me via a search engine...or would I rather our website be a site thats just an extension of our folio online that are clients can look at that we have gotten via referrals...focus on the site having more interesting visual content...

    do I want a client that has to go to google that types in "webdesign".. I am typing in web design in google I get a list of sites that are design studios in india or butt ugly sites that have stupid amounts of copy and meaningless blogs on their site for SEO...

    From my experience the clients we have gotten via passing traffic have been painful clients with no budgets.

    Is good design getting lost in SEO what happen to less is more? the images should really be the key point....right??....thoughts?

    maybe the answer is to focus on getting mentioned on other sites articles blogs externally from yours to boost SEO...rather then jeopardizing your aesthetics???

    May 2, 08, 6:45 p.m. – Permalink
  • _salisae_

    depends on your business. I wouldn't consider a designer's site as necessarily seo driven. i personally have never received a call through a cold google search.

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    Dog-earMay 2, 08, 6:53 p.m. – Permalink
  • joelski

    on the flip side...good SEO for business sites is a must these days...so wouldn't be important to demonstrate this with your own site??

    • no. if that's your specialty than surely your folio sites will demonstrate well enough.– _salisae_
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    Dog-earMay 2, 08, 6:57 p.m. – Permalink
  • NewElpaso

    think of it in terms of sharing as well...

    a flash site is inherently easier for others to blog you content or share it on things like ffffound. thus propagating you work and increasing the chances of you getting seen.

    i think its about appropriateness...
    its not so much a want.. - its whether you need all that flash gumpf on your site.

    i love tasteful flash sites as much as anyone - but half of the websites i see in flash are disasterously over complicated, gimmicky and naff. - which tends to put me off.

    although - you cant go wrong with a bit of ajax... ;)

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    Dog-earMay 2, 08, 7:05 p.m. – Permalink
  • NewElpaso

    ****....an HTML site is inherently easier for others to blog....****

    • I was wondering what you were talking about ;)– Jaline1/3
      stupid freudian cocks...– NewElpaso2/3
      **freudian slips***– NewElpaso3/3
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    Dog-earMay 2, 08, 7:09 p.m. – Permalink
  • _salisae_

    plus apple said flash is dead .. so ..

    • shari, is that (excellent) NYT annual report sample from an actual job, or more of a portfolio piece?– Dr_Rand
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    Dog-earMay 2, 08, 7:10 p.m. – Permalink
  • fyoucher1

    if you're a design company or any web company at that, isn't it more important to get traffic and clients by things like: word of mouth, recognition, quality of work, networking, and reputation? If you're relying on SEO for income, then your competition is probably going to be blowing you away with unlimited logo designs for 10 bucks or website designs for 50 bucks or templates galore. No need for a stinkin redesign. Okay, Johnny Walker is kicking in. Back to work.

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    Dog-earMay 2, 08, 7:56 p.m. – Permalink
  • Amen

    depend, i like old school....

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    Dog-earMay 2, 08, 8:19 p.m. – Permalink
  • Llyod

    blah blah blah blah blah I'm talking like I know my ass from a hole in the ground

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    Dog-earMay 2, 08, 8:23 p.m. – Permalink
  • utopian

    If you have a quality product and or service people will find you whether your website is in Flash or if it is an HTML web 2.0 SEO
    ready site.

    SEO is a bunch of hype created by "Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, etc..." helping them generate banner ad revenue, SEO services, etc, the same is true of the SEO firms and or interactive firms that realized they can make a boat load of money making and selling websites SEO.

    If a company is really looking to have their website be "SEO" compliant all they have to do is buy top-level searchs in any of the popular search engines
    E.g. Google Ad Sense.

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    Dog-earMay 2, 08, 8:44 p.m. – Permalink
  • mimeartist

    There is SEO and then there is SEO, I want people to find me by my name, not by typing 'web design' if that makes sense?

    i.e They already know who I am but the SEO helps them find me.

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    Dog-earMay 3, 08, 12:42 a.m. – Permalink
  • joelski

    for some reason lately I am more impressed with css design then Flash

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    Dog-earMay 3, 08, 1:06 a.m. – Permalink
  • flavorful

    I'll say I'm glad ... because I don't know flash, haha.

    Well gradually more glad I guess the past few.

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    Dog-earMay 3, 08, 7:53 a.m. – Permalink
  • fugged

    Good SEO can result in good conversions, but the whole SEO hype is out of control. I think you can still have a site that is optimized for search engines without sacrificing design.

    Good, relevant and targeted content combined with semantically correct HTML can get you far in the SEO game. Do some guerrilla marketing. It's cheap and can get you pretty far too. Takes a little more time and effort though.

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    Dog-earMay 3, 08, 8:06 a.m. – Permalink
  • Dr_Rand

    html is dead

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    Dog-earMay 3, 08, 8:07 a.m. – Permalink
  • maximillion_

    the open screen project is a great step forward to opening up the wider potential of flash - http://www.adobe.com/openscreenp…

    flash is an experience medium and although i produce a lot with it and enjoy working with it, my own preference during a busy day is for html sites where i can get to the information quickly. i still think that its the right choice for most of the work i create and thats not just because it pays my bills. the level of interaction, video and now audio means it wont be dying off just yet

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    Dog-earMay 3, 08, 11:10 a.m. – Permalink

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