Lancashire Web Design - UK wide WebSite Development - Manchester web design
For the typical web sites, the basic elements of design are:
- Content is King: the substance, and information on the site should be kept relevant, up to date and keep the user interested. We develop websites for companies based around the lancashire Area. Our clients can visit our Blackburn web design offices to discuss thier web content. We help our clients write content to ensure they correctly setup the page to fit consistently with the website layout and also ensure that Keywords, Page Titles, Meta descriptions and Meta tags are populated. At Oreeka we want all out Blackburn web design clients to benefit from the traffic generated from SEO work.
- User Interface : the site should be user-friendly, with the user interface and site navigation that is easy to understand. Our Web solutons offer an easy to understand web interface for all site vistors, visit some of the websites we have currently completed to see the look and fee of the UI. Our clients across the northwest have benefited from easy to use interfaces. see. Lancashire web design , Web design blackburn, web design lancashire Manchester web design , manchester web development , web development lancashire
- Appearance: the graphics and text should include a single style that flows throughout, such as writing style, layouts and text formats. The style should be professional, appealing and consistent. When Setting up web pages, ensure that naming conventions are easy to understand.
- Serach Engine Visability: the site must be found easily using search engines, this will ensure the site receives natural web traffic (Google, Yahoo and Bing, being the main ones). We pride ourselves on the Search Engine Optimisation work we offer clients. We offer web solutions to cater for all industry sectors. We make sure that your site is comprehensively populated with all the relavant keywords, meta tags and meta descriptions.
- Pictures and Graphics - Using Pictures and visual displays, help engage the user intrest, and provide a valuable tool to convey key themes and messages . Be Sure to use pictures you have the permission to use, plagarising/copying images can result in legal action being taken against your business.
Types of Programming Languages & Formats
- HTML - Hypertext Markup Language is the basic language for displaying a web-site.
- XML- Extensible Markup Language is a set of rules for encoding documents electronically.
- RSS Feeds - Web feed formats used to publish frequently updated works—such as blog entries, headlines, audio and video
- PHP - HTML embedded scripting language. It provides web developers with a full suite of tools for building dynamic websites
- MySQL - An Open Source Database platform embedded in a new generation of applications built on the LAMP stack (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP / Perl / Python)
- AJAX - Adopting Ajax in web applications allows the retrieval of data from the server without interfering with the display and behaviour of the existing webpage. The use of Ajax has led to an increase in interactive or dynamic interfaces on web pages
- Javascript - The primary use of JavaScript is to write functions that are embedded in or included from HTML pages
- ASP.NET - Was Microsoft's first server-side script engine for dynamically-generated web pages.
- CGI - The Common Gateway Interface (CGI) is a standard protocol for interfacing external application software commonly with a web server.
Mobile Applications (apps) for the Iphone, Android & Blackberry App Store
The new craze in smart phone usage has been catapulted by the launch of the iphone apps store, which has seen rocketing downloads of so call apps from iphones all over the world. Given this extraordinary demand we have moved our business accordingly to provide you with a iphone/android/blackberry app smart phone solution
At oreeka online we have got togther a development team that can program apps for your website project. Our Apps Development guys are currently working on an Accounting App for a local bank. We can make any type of application to suit the needs of your business process. You can have an app designed for your intranet at work, an itunes music type application or an online store or even a dating website app, even the oil industry has its own apps. let us program your web presence for these new devices. Opportunites are available for those who are the first movers into the space. Time is running out! get you site app enabled.
Search Engines - Web users adopt the services of search engines such as google, yahoo and bing to find what they are looking for, "googling" is a now a national past time, a key portal to find new products, search for news, information and general web browsing. Search engines form some of the biggest brands on the internet, many have not been around for long. Oreeka online specialises in search engine optimisation, we can optimise your website to preform better than your competitors for your selected keywords in search rankings on these particular search engines, when the user is looking for a particular key phrase.
It is no use having a online shop if know one can find you. SEO work is critical to allow people to find you and browse your shop catalogue. The better your search rankings the greater the virtual footfall your e-shop will generate leading to a successful online business. Seach Engines Also Offer a pay per click advertsing solution. See pages manchester SEO. Preston SEO, Lancashire search engine optimisation, Liverpool search engine optimisation
Social Media - Online communities of users, spearheaded by facebook, twitter and youtube, also know as web 2.0 where the user content is king. social media allows the user to add, edit blogs/content within thier online network of friends and users. Facebook has over 500 million users worldwide, showing the immense popularity of the this new media. websites can capitalise on the user content by using user profle information to target persons of a similar interest. Facebook is now launching a new location based addition to its popular social network, watch this space for details as they are released.
Current time online statistics show that are the most popular company for user time spen online is Microsofts live messenger service MSN, Whilst the fastest growing is facebook with 1.4billion user hours (a gain of 200% over 2008). stats by comscore. You can use this type of data to decide where to allocate advertising spend given user surfing habits.
Web Hosting Blackburn Lancashire - Hosting solutions for websites can range from a few pounds per month to hundreds of pounds per month. Hosting Plans depend on a number of factors, such as the type of site (basic site with maybe 4/5 pages, an e-commerce website or a database driven website), the amount of traffic coming to a site, the number of downloads from the site.
There are two main types of hosting platform. Linux Based or Windows Based Hosting. Linux is the free open source platform that the vast majority of hosting companies use to power the servers. The advantages of using Linux is the access to free scripts and programs such as MySQL, Perl, PHP & CGI. At Oreeka Online we are powering Lancashire Businesses with a Linux Based web server, that is stable and very reliable.
