Happy Customer – OvenMagic
Having relocated in the summer I needed to change my sites SEO to Stafford
as part of this on going project in betwen client work I have also been asking for some reviews from some of my clients on Google places to let others know what my clients think of me. I am pleased to say that several responded so I would like to share them on my blog over the next few posts.
Let me introduce you to OvenMagic run by Kevin Kemp.
Oven Magic is an oven cleaning company based Droitwich, Worcestershire.
Cleaning residential and commercial oven, hobs and ranges in Worcestershire and south Birmingham. Making greasy, dirty ovens, sparkle again like new.
Kevin had a site that he’d launched early last year and wanted some SEO work carrying out. Having re-coded his site into CSS rather than it’s original table format making it easier to make future changes.
This is what Kevin had to say about my work.
“Oven Magic would like to thank Pippasweb for the continued support with the www.ovenmagic.me web site on keeping it at page One on google in the worcestershire area for all of 2010. Pippa has given me a better understanding of how seo works and i would without hesitation recommend pippas web service to any start up company looking for affordable seo. pippa has also up dated my web site with a super fast turn round time thank you pippa”
As Kevin said for most locations in his target area for the term “Oven Cleaning” he is on the 1st page of results and for “oven cleaning Worcester” as of Nov 2010 he actually occupied the No1# slot from over 53,000 results.
Customer: Kevin Kemp – OvenMagic.
Service: SEO and site Maintenance.
Site: http://www.ovenmagic.me
To see how Pippasweb could help your business, check us out.
Small Changes.
Well over the last few weeks I’ve been taking an online course in CSS. It has helped to clarify what I had tried to work out for myself before hand. Since then I have been working on a couple of sites including the Pippas Web site and the cricket club site which I maintain.
Pippas Web was made true CSS coding not part CSS and part tables, with just a little tidy up while I was there. I do plan to re-write some sections soon.
The other site I have updated with new colours and finally caught up with some of the missing results and entrants for the competitions.
Neither site has been changed radically, but for me it was more about trying to tidy up behind the scene’s, practising some new skills and making some good looking sites.
If anyone has any comments about them, please do let me know.
CSS what is it and do I need it?
Cascading Style Sheets or (CSS) works alongside Hypertext Markup Language (HTML). HTML is the code that tells a browser how to display a web page. Previously in HTML you had to code every row to describe the fonts, backgrounds, positioning etc.
CSS allows you to to state how the layout of the site will look, ensure uniformity across different pages, and it allows your web page to download quicker, helping to make sure that your potential new customers don’t get bored and go find someone else’s site.
CSS code can be on either a separate document, written in the header of the HTML web page, or even written inline with the HTML code. depending on what you need that bit of code to affect.
At it’s most basic you can code CSS to make all your text written in H1 the largest title tag across your site to be written in red, bold and in Arial.
CSS code can be used to arrange the layout of the page. It can create areas on the page for the text to be displayed in columns or blocks, or it can be used to position and stack images.
Linking your regular HTML pages to a separate CSS document makes it easy to change presentation, layout and general appearance of all linked pages very quickly. You need only to make the changes on the one document, not every page on the site.
Do I need it? Well it depends on you and how user friendly you want your site to be behind the scenes. It is still possible to code a site purely in HTML, but this takes a lot longer as you can imagine having to describe how every line of text looks. CSS reduces the initial time it takes to code the the site but also makes re-designing sites or making changes to the whole site a lot quicker and more efficient. Most sites these days will be designed using CSS and HTML, but if you’re getting someone else to create your site, it is always worth checking.
Designing My Own Site
Well I thought I ought to start documenting the development of my site Pippas web as this was the purpose of adding a blog to the site.
I’ve been working on trying to get the layout right before finalising the content. I decided to use CSS (Cascading Style Sheets), which was a bit of a challenge for me as I’d not used them before, but that is how I learn. I decide to do something, then have to work out how to do it.
So far I’ve gone from having a plain background to having a picture background with fixed width site then I know that most people will see the site the same way. I’ve had to learn how to make small flash movies for the side of the site, how to use CSS and a crash course in how to edit images using Paint.net . Not to mention joining up to twitter. No wonder every time I go on the computer just to do a little tweaking it takes me hours.
