redesign is html why?
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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???
- _salisae_0
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.
- NewElpaso0
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... ;)
- _salisae_0
plus apple said flash is dead .. so ..
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- fyoucher10
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.
- Amen0
depend, i like old school....
- Llyod0
blah blah blah blah blah I'm talking like I know my ass from a hole in the ground
- utopian0
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.
- ********0
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.
- joelski0
for some reason lately I am more impressed with css design then Flash
- ********0
I'll say I'm glad ... because I don't know flash, haha.
Well gradually more glad I guess the past few.
- fugged0
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.
- ********0
html is dead
- esp is where it's at********
- Long Live HTML!********
- lsd is where it's at********
- esp is where it's at
- maximillion_0
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