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SEO For Small Business
A client recently asked me to take a look at their current SEO company and help them to decide whether or not the service they were paying for was worth the money. So I decided to do a little research about SEO and what exactly some of these companies do.
We're Live!
I'm very excited to say that we've made the new site live! I hope you all like it. We're still tweaking the design, but the basic look is there now - and all the underneath parts are working well. First we have our Adsum Drive CMS (powered by Silverstripe) driving our site. We have some customized pages implemented for the site, as well as a blog module plugged in for - well - this blog :)
Adsum Drive Site Redesign
So since we decided to go with a new CMS, we thought it was a great time to redesign the website. Couple that with the fact that we are all about standards now - we couldn't have our own website not conform to standard XHTML/CSS. So armed with some new css knowledge we set out to redesign the site. The basic colours we kept the same and of course our logo. We decided to go with a fluid layout that would stretch out to utilize the entire screen (up to a maximum) and the goal was to make the site as accessible as possible. That meant allowing all our design elements to resize with larger or smaller text - meaning our design wouldn't break if someone decided to enlarge the font so they could see better.
Silverstripe - Choosing an open source CMS
Version 1 of our Adsum Drive CMS was extremely simple - and that's how we wanted it. Simple to use, simple to build for the ease of use and affordability of our clients. But as we got more requests for a more sophisticated solution, we decided to begin gathering requirements for a more feature rich solution. As we did we realized that our CMS could definitely be extended and added to. So, we got together with our creative partners and a few select clients to determine what they wanted in a CMS.
