I took a look at your IT Website, it looks great. I have a question though, how did you place your services navigation bar with content of the page showing on the same page on Xara web design? I have been trying to this with no luck
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I took a look at your IT Website, it looks great. I have a question though, how did you place your services navigation bar with content of the page showing on the same page on Xara web design? I have been trying to this with no luck
Edunroyal: I'm not sure I understand the question. See if this adds anything: The only thing I ran into with the two bars were that I didn't want the Services bar to be on all pages, so I had to do each page seperate. Same goes for the top nav. Since the Home page has the navigation in a vertically different space than the rest of the pages, I wasn't able to use a "site navigation bar" for that either.
While this made it more of a pain to build and will make it more difficult to add to/maintain, it does still have a lot of flexibility and some shortcutting vs the "old way" of manually building the whole 9 yards because I can just add an item and paste onto the appropriate pages "in place".
Does that help?
Hey all,
I said I would respond back to this thread when I had a better idea of how the replacement site is working from an SEO perspective. Well - now Google and the others have found and indexed a lot of the new site, though there seem to be a few remnants of the old one still hanging around in there...
Anyway, the performance for the terms that I am trying to get seems to be about the same - possibly somewhat better because of the addition of web design and laptop services to the pages. Attached is a snapshot of my analytics graph. You can see a spike at August 18, as that's the day I announced the new site. So before that spike is the old, hand coded, purely HTML and CSS for the most part and after the spike is the new completely Xara site with no tricks to force things like H1 tags or <p> tags, etc.
So, for all those concerned about SEO performance, maybe this will give you a little faith that a Xara site can perform as well. In fact, I've also attached a second graphic which shows the time period since the new site upload and the same amount of time prior specifically for google search results, which takes out the extra traffic that talkgraphics itself generated.
Hope this is useful to someone - even Xara maybe. :cool:
nice website, i like the color combination. What did u use for the Get New Updats Form? I also want a form for my website. :D
gutterleech: The form is a placeholder with an html form in it which then has a small php script behind it to send the mail to me. It's not really an "updates" thing - but a simple way for me to "add them to the mailing list". This will be converted to a MailChimp signup at some point, but I need to recode this site in standard HTML for that to really work the way I want it to...
I may never get around to it - I'm really busy lately and paying sites come in front of mine being recoded! :) Also, I am coming up with the "lightside" alternative to this one - a version with a lighter feel, just to show a few different ways that it could have been done and will allow the site visitor to choose which one will come up.