Search Engine Optimization
The key to a successful website is users being able to find the website in major search engines. There are several basic components we include as standard to improve the websites ranking potential:
- - Meaningful meta data/tags
- - Structured navigation/menus to assist search engine spiders
- - Good textual content referencing keywords
- - Text links in the menu and a site map to relevant pages.
- - Not using framesets
- - Unique page title
- - Limited graphics, where used labeled with alt and title tags
- - Search engine registration
- - Good linking
- - Build site to comply with latest standards (XHTML, CSS and Accessibility guidelines)
Website Standards
As standard website are coded using ASP.net 2 in VB or classic ASP and a Windows environment and utilizing a Microsoft SQL database. DHTML templates will be fully optimized in order to aid search engine optimization. Cascading Style Sheets and CSS Positioning will be used in conjunction with the XHTML templates to ensure a forward compatible and easily updated website.
As standard all our websites are cross browser compliant so that they work correctly in all major browser versions; IE, FireFox, Netscape, Opera, Morzilla and Safari, on PC and MAC. It will adhere to accessibility guidelines as specified by Web 2.0, WC3, DDA, RNID and RNIB. Your website will be fully scalable to allow for future developments and enhancements.
Server Hosting
The Media Design House provide website hosting using Fasthosts, UKFast and 1 and 1, three of the UK's leading hosting providers. The package delivers the following components:
- - 24/7 UK based support
- - Domain registration
- - 4 GB Windows web space
- - Virtually unlimited numbers of mailboxes
- - Microsoft SQL database
Hosting packages start from £25+VAT per month*
*Bandwidth up to 5Gb/month = £25+VAT/mth. Each additional 5Gb/mth = + £5+VAT/mth
Firewall Protection
All new websites are backed up regularly, to ensure that the website can be reinstalled and up and running as soon as possible should the server fail. We monitor all of our web servers with automatic alerts notifying of down time to ensure we can respond and limit the inconvenience.