Toronto Web Design Company

I view many sites a day, normally at the request of a client or just trying to gather some inspiration. In my journey across the vast area of website design, there are tons of sites that are using outdated html design code, poor title tags, and “fluff” code practices.

 

Frames, frames and more frames. Websites using frames should be fined, hacked or just pointed in a right direction. Frames were a cool technique back in early 2000 to show two distinct web pages but now they just ruin the user experience.

 

Everyone abused the crap out of frames (I was also one of them). Frames were an excellent way of showing 2 distinct website pages.

 

So what’s the big problem? Frames make the website design look horrible. It becomes hard to update the graphic design on both end and worst of all it ruins a consistent graphic flow. Imagine cutting a picture in half. Then imagine just changing the right side while the left looks the same. The picture just doesn’t fit.

 

Instead of frames, stick to plain non-obtrusive website design and if you really need to show two files, then you can use PHP or ASP to include files.

 

 

As my previous post at elevinmedia web design  stated, TITLE tags is what users see when they search in Google. Also, no one on the internet is looking for “COMPANY NAME” unless the company is an internationally known.

 

Your business is being found by YOUR SERVICES not YOUR COMPANY. So many high Page Rank websites rank poorly in Search Engines because of inappropriate title tags. It kills my SEO heart inside. (Yes, I do have a heart dedicated just to SEO)

 

Change your website title tag to “<KEYWORDS ABOUT SERVICE>” rather than “<Company name>”. Your title needs to reflect what your company can do for your customers. 

 

 

Ah, fluff coding. The one thing all CSS/HTML coders despise. If you view the source code of your website, you can easily determine the “fluff” code. The major one is with a website design using tables. This code will entail over a million “Spacer.gif” links, well maybe just a couple LOL!.

 

The point of spacer.gif is simply for aesthetic purposes. But, and a major BUT!, “Spacer.gif” does not help search engine spider index your site. Rather it makes it makes your website code longer, file size bigger and unorganized.

 

So instead of using spacer.gif files, take a look at good ol’ CSS HTML web designs that will eliminate file size and make it more comfortable for search engines to read code.