Website Engineering |
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| Why website engineering? | |
| Most commercial websites are produced by firms with a strong background in graphic art and design. webmasters@skillbank.co.uk has a different philosophy. We ENGINEER websites using appropriate techniques to build websites that load fast and get your business message across. You aren't there to entertain, you're on the web to sell products or services - and so are we. Our sites are | |
| Search engine friendly | Will a prospective customer looking for your kind of product or service find your site? Pretty pictures, animation, Flash wont help here! |
| Load fast, even on a slow link. | According to recent surveys
of web users you have only seven seconds
to catch the interest of a visitor - or they will go elsewhere. Your
visitor will need to be really desperate to wait much longer than this. |
| Active sites | Sites that do
more than just show images and text require advanced coding using DHTML -
conventional HTML or XHTML, with style and movement added with Javascript. The style change on this page, the timer and the moving spider all work like this. |
| Lost in hyperspace? | Your site must have a clear strategy for navigation - a visitor who cant find what they want will click away. |
| Cross-browser compatible | Different browsers respond in different ways. Can a prospective customer view your site equally effectively with IE3, 4, 5, Netscape, Opera, Mosaic, Lynx, ... |