Comments on: Getting Geeky with Website Design – the Saga, part 1 http://agbeat.com/real-estate-sales-marketing/getting-geeky-with-website-design-the-saga-part-1/ News, insights, tools, and inspiration for business owners and professionals Fri, 10 Feb 2012 15:13:36 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Geeky Web Design Part II - Who Are These People and What Do They Want? : agentgenius.com http://agbeat.com/real-estate-sales-marketing/getting-geeky-with-website-design-the-saga-part-1/#comment-542 Geeky Web Design Part II - Who Are These People and What Do They Want? : agentgenius.com Sun, 21 Oct 2007 21:20:00 +0000 http://agentgenius.com/?p=196#comment-542 [...] This week in our website redesign saga, we try to answer the question: Who are these people and what do they want from me anyway?  (You can catch up on Part I here) [...] [...] This week in our website redesign saga, we try to answer the question: Who are these people and what do they want from me anyway?  (You can catch up on Part I here) [...]

]]> By: Kelley Koehler http://agbeat.com/real-estate-sales-marketing/getting-geeky-with-website-design-the-saga-part-1/#comment-401 Kelley Koehler Mon, 15 Oct 2007 18:16:57 +0000 http://agentgenius.com/?p=196#comment-401 Benn - Ah, mostly because we already know Drupal and don't know Joomla. I'll point it out to Hubby, but unless it has some defining feature that we can't live without, we'll most likely go Drupal. There will be tradeoffs between existing technology knowledge and time it takes to learn new stuff as we go along. Pete - The starting discovery work is the least fun and exciting, but necessary. Working with interface and design is a lot more entertaining, but we don't want to end up with a pretty but useless site. Shailesh - Looking into the seo-ness of technologies will come a little bit later in the process, but from some initial research, Flash doesn't really 'read' for the bots, it's just a big binary file. I've heard not to do menus in Flash because those nice words in the menus won't be 'read' as part of the site. We'll probably only do the search interface in Flash. The actual search interface isn't necessarily something I need crawled - just a bunch of blank boxes and drop-downs - and I found a function that can present something different to search bots and those without flash installed without being considered blackhat. The only thing from the search that would be nice to have crawled would be a list of subdivisions, but we can take care of that in a much better way elsewhere on the site. Benn – Ah, mostly because we already know Drupal and don’t know Joomla. I’ll point it out to Hubby, but unless it has some defining feature that we can’t live without, we’ll most likely go Drupal. There will be tradeoffs between existing technology knowledge and time it takes to learn new stuff as we go along.

Pete – The starting discovery work is the least fun and exciting, but necessary. Working with interface and design is a lot more entertaining, but we don’t want to end up with a pretty but useless site.

Shailesh – Looking into the seo-ness of technologies will come a little bit later in the process, but from some initial research, Flash doesn’t really ‘read’ for the bots, it’s just a big binary file. I’ve heard not to do menus in Flash because those nice words in the menus won’t be ‘read’ as part of the site. We’ll probably only do the search interface in Flash. The actual search interface isn’t necessarily something I need crawled – just a bunch of blank boxes and drop-downs – and I found a function that can present something different to search bots and those without flash installed without being considered blackhat. The only thing from the search that would be nice to have crawled would be a list of subdivisions, but we can take care of that in a much better way elsewhere on the site.

]]> By: Shailes Ghimire http://agbeat.com/real-estate-sales-marketing/getting-geeky-with-website-design-the-saga-part-1/#comment-398 Shailes Ghimire Mon, 15 Oct 2007 17:37:44 +0000 http://agentgenius.com/?p=196#comment-398 Kelley, Very timely. Our website is old - I put it together in early 2005 using Dreamweaver (static HTML). I've been thinking about a makeover. Following your journey will be very helpful. Do you know if Flash is still a big no no when it comes to SEO? Thanks for sharing! Kelley,

Very timely. Our website is old – I put it together in early 2005 using Dreamweaver (static HTML). I’ve been thinking about a makeover. Following your journey will be very helpful.

Do you know if Flash is still a big no no when it comes to SEO?

Thanks for sharing!

]]> By: Pete Brand http://agbeat.com/real-estate-sales-marketing/getting-geeky-with-website-design-the-saga-part-1/#comment-397 Pete Brand Mon, 15 Oct 2007 17:26:52 +0000 http://agentgenius.com/?p=196#comment-397 I think you are right on! The problem is most web development companies skip through discovery (from the creative side) and framing and go directly to the prototyping. The good solid companies know the importance of quality design, ease of use, and functionality. If you forget any of the three...the site will be ineffective. I think you are right on! The problem is most web development companies skip through discovery (from the creative side) and framing and go directly to the prototyping. The good solid companies know the importance of quality design, ease of use, and functionality. If you forget any of the three…the site will be ineffective.

]]> By: Benn Rosales http://agbeat.com/real-estate-sales-marketing/getting-geeky-with-website-design-the-saga-part-1/#comment-396 Benn Rosales Mon, 15 Oct 2007 16:17:05 +0000 http://agentgenius.com/?p=196#comment-396 Ajax and why not joomla instead of drupal? Ajax and why not joomla instead of drupal?

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