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Search Engine Optimisation, the practice of improving search engines ranking position (SERP), as been a hot topic of conversation amongst many Barnsley business owners for quite some time. Why? The answer the simple. Search engine users are warm leads. They are actually typing in what they need....

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Web Accessibility Testing Service

Posted by The Geek | Posted in Accessible Web Design, Web Accessibility Testing | Posted on 20-11-2011

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Is your website DDA compliant? So that fewer of the website’s visitors are disadvantaged by using your website, Computer Coders provides an Accessibility Audit for your website from £45 per page (A Standard).

computercoders.co.uk/dda-compliance.htm

AA Standard testing is priced at just £54 per page and is our most popular Accessibility Testing service. For anyone who is serious about providing their website’s visitors with a fantastic user experience (which ultimately leads to an higher visitor conversion rate) then Accessibility Testing is the way forward.
We find that the AAA Standard tends to have diminishing returns and can, in certain cases, begin to adversely affect usability.

computercoders.co.uk/dda-compliance.htm

If you have 50 pages on your website then our services aren’t going to cost you 50 x £54 which is £2700. The chances are that your website was developed to use just a few (maybe 4 or 5) template pages including the homepage, about us, product/services, contact and the rest of the pages were merely added based upon these pages. We only need to test these few pages because the same problems crop up again and again. For instance, if alt text isn’t being used on the homepage and contact page then the chances are that the whole website will have these same errors!

computercoders.co.uk/dda-compliance.htm

So at around 5 x £54 to work towards DDA compliance or just £270 is unbelievable value.
YES JUST £270 on average!!!
We do not plan on keeping these prices this low for ever and you’ll find that many large agencies will charge over £5k for this type of service.
The end product is a comprehensive report. Quotes for redevelopment are an optional extra. Any tech savvy inhouse developer will be able to follow the report. This service is manual because automatic services of this nature do not uncover everything for example – image of an apple with “dog” as alt text – automatic Accessibility software would show “Alt text present” and the test would be passed. But having the incorrect alt text is actually much worse than having none at all.
This is a great offer. Remember it’s Accessibility then Usability in the process.
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International Usability

Posted by The Geek | Posted in Accessible Web Design, Usability design, User Centred Design | Posted on 19-06-2011

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Here is an interesting article from Jacob Nielsen’s Useit.com website http://www.useit.com/alertbox/international-sites.html

It ponders the usability of user interfaces by users in a country other than the one that they were designed in. It could be argued that social norms and cultural differences can have a significant effect on the effectiveness of international usability. A particular difference might be the meanings of connotations that pertain to certain aspects of a user interface’s navigation.

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Web Design and SEO

Posted by The Geek | Posted in Accessible Web Design, Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) | Posted on 10-06-2011

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Too many web design projects start out well but end up dead in the water. Why is this? Because they are not marketed properly. I hear about lots of businesses that have a website designed without a clear plan in mind for marketing the website. This is like starting out on a journey without knowing the destination which is fine if you’re going out for a meal and want to land somewhere that you haven’t been before. But being this adventurous will surely cost you much more in time and money; and no business person I know wants to waste time or money!

So it would be accurate to say that web design and SEO go together quite well. They ought to because they both fall under the same category of Internet Marketing.

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