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June 2, 2008
"As the Internet grows, so do the standards with the websites that occupy it. With new websites entering cyberspace everyday, the demand for bigger and better sites has come. We know this project took time, dedication and a lot of hard work.
The judges at DesignFirms would like to announce that your site has been found as one of the best on the Internet and hereby award you with the DesignFirms Web Award. Congratulations on such a great achievement and we look forward to more submissions from you in the future."
December 1, 2007
"The Gold Award represents Web Presence at its best. To achieve this award is truly an honor. The winning site has scored between 90 and 100 points, which was not an easy task. A Gold award winning site is error free from broken links and error messages of any kind. Correct use of Meta tags and ALT tags have been used, which most search engines have picked up on "keywords" used in the "Meta Tags".
This site uses advanced features, scripts and coding. Graphic Design is of the highest quality and original works of art, created by the site designer. The Gold Award site represents at least 95 percent of original content and creativity and provides outstanding design and layout of website. Its content is something that will interest any and all visitors, who visit their site."
1. Do limit Flash, and anything else that will make your initial page load slow. 50% of internet uses still have slow connections, and a lot of people with high speed connection lose interest in a new website if they don't have immediate gratification. Leave the Flash for subpages in your website, allowing the visitor to choose to look at it or not.
2. Do have tons of related content. Content is King. And Queen, Princess, Prince, the whole dang court. Other SEO methods (meta tags, etc) are the peasants, still needed to run a kingdom but search engines don't notice them as much. If you do a search for nearly anything on Google, you'll notice one thing in common with all the top sites: lots and lots of relevant text.
3. Don't do flashing, scrolling, required downloads, pop ups - anything that can be construed as annoying, or worse, not work on the visitor's browser.
4. Don't use music, or have it off to allow the visitor to play it. You don't want a potential client to get fired when your website's music comes blasting out of work speakers they didn't know were on, nor would you want it waking up a baby. Music is very similar to Flash...use it wisely or not at all.
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