For the most part football (Americans, read soccer) websites are some of the worst I’ve seen from professional organisations. The obvious reason for their appalling nature is that the people in charge have little knowledge of what makes a good information-based website. Certainly the web design agencies they hire seem to have no clue whatsoever.
Yearly archives: 2006
What is Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) and how can it be achieved
The concept of good SEO is for your website to appear well in the natural rankings of Google/Yahoo/MSN/etc as opposed to the paid for listings (which cost money and don’t perform as well).
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Ecommerce Mistakes: Having a separate online store & an instore website
Having a website that is little more than a splash page which offers visitors a choice of an online store or an instore-offers-website is a colossal mistake in web design.
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Dom Scripting by Jeremy Keith
In my time, I’ve read quite a few computing text books but this is undoubtedly my favourite.
Finding your website’s usability errors with Google Analytics
Google Analytics is good and it’s free so it’s double-plus-good. The things that can be measured include the drop-off rates for your checkout process, revenue by source (e.g. which website has sent you the most money).
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Welcome to <img /> is everything
This is a new blog, and it seems only fair to kick-off with a brief intro of what this site is about.
… is the new home of me, Phil Thompson. I’m a UK Web developer/designer living in Manchester and currently working in Wigan for JJB Sports.