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We help companies in Northern Ireland to establish their products and services on the Internet, to sell to the local or international market.
Scribble Designs specialise in standards-based web design and the creation of attractive websites that are easy to use. We believe that a well-designed site will provide the best return on investment by making it easier for your customers to buy your product or get in touch with you.
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From The Blog...
Search Engine Professional
The good folks at SEOmoz have come up with an SEO quiz that rates your knowledge of SEO according to some very difficult questions. I took the test today and got a 74% score – not bad considering there were some tricky questions (and a couple where the wording caught me out).
So, I’m officially an…
I’m feeling a little smug about that news. Understandably.
SEO Success For Heritage Quilts
I was pleasantly surprised to see that a site I’d worked on a while back is ranking at #1 in Google (uk only) for a key competitive term.
Heritage Quilts is a small business run by my client, Briege Kelly. She’s a dedicated quiltmaker and allows orders via the OSCommerce store I set up for her over a year ago.
Configuring The Contact Form Module In Drupal
I’m currently wrapping up on a Drupal installation for a client I’ve been working with for a while. One of the finishing touches on the new site is a contact form. Thankfully, Drupal has a contact form module built in, so there’s not really much work to do to get it up and running.
Here are some notes on configuring the Contact Form module for Drupal:
Recommended Reading for 11th August through 29th August
Interesting posts I’ve read between 11th August and 29th August: Read the rest of this entry »
SEO TIP: Viewing NOFOLLOW Links On The Web
Aaron Wall’s brilliantly useful SEO For Firefox plugin can show you a lot about websites via the search results – PageRank, age of site, number of backlinks, etc.
For me however, the most useful feature of the plugin highlights links that have had rel=”nofollow” applied to them. This can be useful when doing link building campaigns. For instance, take a look at del.icio.us and StumbleUpon – both universally apply nofollow to all links except internal ones. There’s no PageRank value in those types of links, although there may be a short term traffic boost from submitting your site to them.
Recommended Reading for 8th August through 10th August
Interesting posts I’ve read between 8th August and 10th August: Read the rest of this entry »
iPhone Only: Elitist Web Design Approaches
When I’m working on a website – any website – I’m thinking about how to maximize the audience that site gets.
I’ll make my best efforts to ensure that the pages can be viewed properly in the majority of web browsers, and I’ll do my level best to test that the code is accessible and valid.
That’s why I find this post by Eric Meyer disturbing. Eric points to a recent trend where people are developing iPhone-only websites. Now, these folks are likely cashing in on a trend, aiming for ‘cool points’ by supporting the latest Apple mega-gadget, but to exclude the rest of the web?
Recommended Reading for 25th July through 4th August
Interesting posts I’ve read between 25th July and 4th August: Read the rest of this entry »
Making Windows Live Writer Work With Ultimate Tag Warrior
I have a preferred setup on most of my WordPress blogs whereby I use Ultimate Tag Warrior to tag my posts internally. Recently, I’ve been swayed by Windows Live Writer, an excellent blogging tool.
The only drawback? I couldn’t get Writer working with Ultimate Tag Warrior. Until this evening…
Sharing Experience On Performancing
Although direct blog posts have been thin on the ground recently here at Scribble Designs, I have been squeezing in a little bit of technical writing over at Performancing.
