What to Look for in a Web Developer or Designer

On August 17th, 2010, posted in: General, Web Design by Angela R.

I’ve seen many pretty looking sites on the internet The first thing a person see’s when going to visit your site is a well laid out site. Thing is they need to be able to find your site. The site should be easy to maneuver and should be made easy to read, text and menu’s.   Now thats just for the looks of it, there’s way more to a site than looks although looks are ranked up there a good bit.

The site should be cross checked across multiple browsers for instance my sites visitors have been using these browsers to view my site, (Click image below for a larger view)

meta tags?!? What is that? well it looks a bit like this….

This one here tells search engines and other linking services what your site is all about…

<meta name=”description” content=”We are a leading team of web developers &amp; SEO experts located in King George VA! We bring our customers top quality web designs that are very SEO friendly at a reasonable cost.” />

The one below here tells search engines Hey if some one enters “affordable web design” into Google my sites has those relevant ”KEYWORDS” so odds are some where with in those search results your page will be seen.

<meta name=”keywords” content=”affordable web design, cms php, content management, content management software, content management system, e commerce shopping cart software, hosting web, news cms, odesk, online shopping cart software, open source cms, php content management system, php development, professional web design, testing tools, video,web design company, web design jobs, web testing” />

as for the link bit here is a snap shot of this site when someone goes to link it on FaceBook

What did it pick up it grabbed a few thumbnails from my site, It grabbed the meta name=”description” & it grab the Site Title  If those aren’t in your html Then it will really hurt your search ranking and your visibility…

If you have a site and want to check to make sure those are in your HTML files  You can…

in most browsers you can right click & click view source (if the site hasn’t got right click disabled) If they do have it disabled you can in IE8  go to view & then click source in the menu of the browser…

For Google Chrome in the top right the little paper looking thing click that then developer then view source..

For Firefox go to view then to page source…

If you would like me to take a quick peek reply to this post with your URL I’d be more than happy to take a look…

These are some basic things a good web developer or designer should do, Also make sure all images have alt tags, Don’t over use H1 tags and try to avoid stop words…

These are frequently occurring words that are  ignored when typed into a search engine. Here are a few examples: An, The, A, Of.

If a stop word is typed at the beginning of a title, this will often stop the search all together, so try to avoid that.

Always make sure your content is relevant to the titles and you should see better rankings in no time