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When we began Strawberrysoup back in June 2005, we knew we were entering a very competitive market. Web design has reasonably low overheads coupled with the fact that you only need a PC/Mac to start with - so it was perfect for us.

We have spent the last 3 years increasing our exposure on the Internet for Strawberrysoup by using the latest proven search engine optimisation (SEO) and search engine marketing (SEM) techniques and are now pleased to say that it has worked!

We are getting consistent high search engine rankings for a variety of web design related keywords on Google, Yahoo and MSN - something that we are really proud of due to the level of national and international competition online.

An few examples of our key phases and their results are below (correct at 6th December 2007):

GOOGLE
web design - 123,000,000 other sites - ranked 23rd (google.com)
web design - 10,300,000 other sites - ranked 21st (google.co.uk)
web designers - 7,840,000 other sites - ranked 12th (google.com)
web design bournemouth - 1,400,000 other sites - ranked 16th (google.com)
web design chichester - 272,000 other sites - ranked 1st (google.com)

YAHOO
web design bournemouth - 2,750,000 other sites - ranked 5th (yahoo.com)
web design chichester - 2,120,000 other sites - ranked 6th (yahoo.com)
website design bournemouth - 1,100,000 other sites - ranked 3rd (yahoo.com)
website design chichester - 637,000 other sites - ranked 6th (yahoo.com)

MSN
web design bournemouth - 1,460,000 other sites - ranked 3rd (msn.com)
website design bournemouth - 1,290,000 other sites - ranked 1st (msn.com)
web design chichester - 437,000 other sites - ranked 7th (msn.com)

As you can see from the above, Strawberrysoup seem to be well regarded in the eyes of the most popular search engines, and we hope that this continues to improve - and prove the our own search engine methodology works!

If you would like us to help your business get the search engine rankings that it deserves, why not contact us and we can help you formulate an online strategy?

Have you ever wanted to relax or meditate but didn’t know what to do? We are working with leading meditation website Download Meditations to help end users use their chakra and follow a range of downloadable meditations.

The website is used as an online resource by many people who are interested in meditation, but don’t know what to do or where to find more information. You can download professionally recorded, guided meditations for use as your personal pyschic school.

A local Solent Boat Charter company ‘4Charter’ have taken their business to the next level by re-designing and building their new website to assist them in achieving improved search engine rankings on a UK basis. The new website is built using the latest CSS technology and has fully optimised content to ensure the search engines can position it effectively above other Solent Boat Charter companies in the area. It’ll take a few months for the new 4Charter website to be positioned on the search engines, but once visible there’ll be no stopping them!

4charter have been running for 3 years providing a range of marine services including Rib charter, Yacht charter and boat maintenance in the Solent area.

They have a diverse range of Ribs for hire throughout the Solent. They offer Rib and Yacht charter primarily from Portsmouth, Southampton, Chichester, and Cowes. Rib hire is available for bareboat and skippered Rib charter throughout the Solent.

As time moves forward, ideas and technologies progress – the internet is no stranger to progression and it demonstrates as well as any other modern technology what great things happen with time. Once a rudimentary network of computers, sharing information on only a handful of topics, the internet has evolved monumentally in the past ten years. This evolution has given fruit to such technological miracles as instant messaging, email, internet television and radio, dynamic internet applications and VOIP (voice over IP – phone calls through the internet).

Twenty years ago, if you told someone that in the not too distant future they would be able to do their weekly shop, chat to friends, bid on auctions and send virtual post from their desk, they would collapse in a fit of laughter (or accuse you of being a witch and burn you at the stake). Yet today these very things are everyday life for the majority of people.

As the internet changed, so did the options available to web designers. The mass uptake of the broadband internet connection was a major way mark for modern web design – the speeds available for the downloading of content was such as to allow the streaming of video, audio and other multimedia. Web pages no longer were required to consist of plain text and basic formatting – web layouts could be forged completely from images and could contain animation and audio.

But, to quote Spiderman, with great power comes great responsibility. Websites started appearing that had no discernible design or purpose – there just because they could be. Random animations were strewn haphazardly across the page and an annoying audio track looped on entry with no option to stop. I may be painting a portrait of a cliché of a bad website, but such novelties as animation and sound really turned many designers (please excuse another movie influence) to the dark side. Thankfully most website design businesses were not ‘wowed’ by the array of new techniques available enough to abandon good taste, and instead of pasting them in a montage of annoyance, used them to create rich user interfaces like nothing ever before experienced.

Today designers have the tools available to achieve everything that was ever possible in print and more, on screen. With applets like Adobe/Macromedia Flash and Java and programming languages like PHP, ASP and CGI, interactivity like never thought possible is accessible to the average consumer. Nowadays, designs need to cater for an immense range of potential content – from plain text and images, maps and message boards to browser based massively multiplayer online games and interactive tours. It is generally no longer acceptable to have a page of information presented in default formatting, and call it a website.

Instead of plain, boring statistics and data displayed in type, websites can today visually represent this data in graphs and charts. Users can toggle how that data is displayed, adding another level of interactivity and therefore involving the user even more with the content. Comments and suggestions for the site owners can be left, visitors can upload pictures…share them, rate them, even sell them. Message boards, chat rooms, games, libraries, shops and vast online worlds to explore. It’s all possible, and the marvellous thing about it is that it can all be disabled with a flick of a switch (or automatically if you’re feeling a bit flash-Harry) if the user is on hardware or software which doesn’t support it.

With the release of a couple of brand new web technologies for the programming of websites, designers today are able to invent designs which harmoniously blend graphic beauty, accessibility, aesthetics and accessibility. If web standards, and designers respect for them, continue to grow as rapidly as they have in the past five years, one day every website will be accessible universally. This is because every web designer will create their sites in the strictest and latest standards compliant code. But until that time arrives, we already do and will complete the job for you!

Soon after the very invention of the Internet, the true purpose of the world wide web had been lost in the midst of a swamp of tables and images. Many web designers were concentrating on design above content and websites started displaying differently in different browsers and resolutions. Tables broke, and content was strewn meaninglessly across pages of clashing colors and tacky images taking minutes to load on our beloved 56k modems.

CSS is a relatively modern web design technology, but even in its infancy it is clear that it is the key to creating an  Internet that is better for everyone. CSS holds many advantages for both the web developer and the end user that older, and much more primitive methods could either not support or, if they did, only extremely erratically. CSS is used to style a websites layout, fonts and coloring, and tells the browser how to render the elements in a page on screen.

Standing for ‘cascading style sheets’ and invented by Norwegian software developer Hakon Wium-Lie in the  October of 1994, CSS slashes loading times and can be accurately interpreted cross platform. Hakon Wium-Lie invented CSS for one main reason - that being to separate content from design. All CSS rules should be kept in an individual file, and these rules are called to each X/HTML page so that changes made in one file have affects across a whole website - thus making modification of designs an extremely simple task.

Working cross platform means that your website which looks great in Internet Explorer 6 on Windows will look just as good on Safari on OSX or Firefox on that obscure distribution of Linux that that potential client of yours uses. CSS isn’t only brilliant cross platform, but ‘cross resolution’, too. It can be used to make layouts automatically resize to fit on a viewers screen, regardless of the resolution they use - in fact, it can even be used to make images resize to fit on a viewers screen. That’s 100% Javascript free - just one line of code, under twenty characters. No messy code, and no broken website if a viewer has Javascript turned off or are on a browser which doesn’t support Javascript.

Cutting out all of that useless table, frame and Javascript markup from your site not only boosts loading times  monumentally, but reduces the load on your web host, saving bandwidth and, therefore, precious money.

You can already see why using CSS instead of tables, frames and Javascript is the best thing you can do to make your website load quickly (yup, even more so than that new web hosting package you were looking at the other day). But what about those of us who know a website should look great as well as function great (we are web designers, after all) - well, CSS doesn’t cease to impress when it comes to this matter. The fact is that CSS actually gives designers more control over a page than ever before - from the font family, to line spacing, the style of bullet points in a list to how the page should look when it is printed; CSS does it all.

CSS gives designers a level of control that has never been possible before, it loads faster than ever before and uses less server resources. If your website uses tables, frames or excessive JavaScript for tasks that have much smaller and faster solutions then your website just isn’t cut out for the Internet of the 21st Century.

If you are looking for a web design company that will design and build your new or existing website using CSS, why not contact Strawberrysoup - a dedicated website design business focused on standards compliance and accessible websites?

The World Wide Web is the fastest evolving media platform in modern society. The data found on it is updated at a tremendous pace and it takes mere seconds for an internet publisher to document real world affairs as they unravel. The range and diversity of information available on the web is monumental, and practically any topic desired can be researched – whether that is in an online encyclopedia, specialist website, discussion forum or a personal website or blog.

Unfortunately web designers and publisher often neglect the needs of internet users with disabilities, or those browsing with older or less widely used software. As a result many websites are not accessible to a large percentage of internet users, and hence their experience is hindered. This is discrimination, and even though the “Disability Discrimination Act (1999)” contains several references to accessible websites, the law is nearly impossible to enforce. Only a handful of very large companies have been pursued with legal action over their websites – this is under 0.00001% of the internet – an insignificantly small fraction.

When a designer builds a site to adhere to accessibility guidelines, he or she writes the most basic markup which will achieve the design already devised. The less markup used, the more likely the final website is to function correctly cross platform. The other advantage to using as little markup as possible is that as a result loading times will be decreased. Only essential images are used, and when they are used ‘text replacement’ is utilized so that text is inserted in place of an image if the image cannot be rendered for any reason. This means if a user has images disabled or cannot view an image, they can still read any text which was in the image.

A number of other, highly specialist methods are also employed to ensure that no matter what operating system, browser or disabilities a user may use/have their experience is not compromised and they have access to all of the data available on the website. These methods range from options to enlarge or decrease the pages font size, options for high contrast versions of the page and a version of a page especially designed to be easily interpreted by a screen reader (a screen reader is a piece of software which reads the text on a page and can output that text for a variety of different uses, such as a specialized keyboard which has a series of small holes through which the below surface is raised to form Braille).

Websites should be accessible by all people, regardless of any disabilities they may have or software they may use. This results in a consistent user experience cross platform and the elimination of discrimination. Therefore increasing the quality of your website, improving the experience of the end user, bettering you/your organizations reputation and, in the case of a company, diversifying the percentage of the public which can view your product/service online.

We recognize the utmost importance of accessible web design and takes pride in building all of their client’s websites to only the strictest accessibility guidelines, as set forth by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). The W3C are the definitive body in web design standards and their guidelines are those which a website is compared to if a publisher is ever taken to court over website accessibility (www.w3c.org).

We also acknowledge that accessible design needn’t mean boring design. Their expert web designers can create a bespoke solution tailored to your individual needs that is exciting, eye catching, bold and accessible.

We have very pleased to announce that BUPA have chosen to work with us in creating a new Search Engine Optimisation and Search Engine Marketing strategy for their armed forces healthcare division.

They approached us after having seen the search engine results that we have gained for both ourselves and our clients. The project is initially focusing on their army healthcare, navy healthcare and RAF healthcare sectors - where they offer a discount of 47% for serving members.

Check back regularly for an update on their SEO & SEM progress!

Chichester Park Hotel is a beautiful hotel in Chichester has recently been taken over by new management, who had decided that a great way to reach clients would be online. They had just got a new website from another design agency, and approached us to search engine optmise and market it online.

We chose to initially use sponsored advertising through Google and its related search network to drive traffic instantly after the new website was launched - which gave us time to concentrate on a search engine marketing plan for the longer term.

We are celebrating to launch of one of our latest websites called Leeds Mortgage Expert, which is a mortgage website specifically orientated around mortgages in Leeds.

The website has taken a lot of hard work from the Strawberrysoup team due to its complex content management system, but it is now fully compliant with the latest web standards, uses valid CSS, and is search engine optimised.

We now plan to market the website, and get it as high as possible for mortgage related keywords such as Leeds mortgages, mortgage in leeds and many others.