A blog from The Design Loft geeks about SEO, web design, traditional marketing, some iPhone stuff and general geeky ramblings.
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mojoPortal Review – my first experience creating mojoPortal skins – is this the best open source .net CMS?
Dec 17th
Hi, and welcome to my mojoPortal review, sprinkled with a few tips from my first time creating mojoportal skins.
Let me give you the bits you need to know before I get into the review proper:
- You can download MojoPortal from here
- It is developed by the extremely helpful Joe Audette
- It is written in C# .NET
- You can use the very good Community Forums to help get you started, along with the official documentation
- You can check out the mojoPortal demo to have a play around
Ok, so that’s where you can get the information you need, so let me give you a bit of a background More >
How to write a design brief for web design projects and SEO success
Dec 14th
Hey hey
We put a post up a while ago about the importance of a good design brief and promised we’d follow it up with how to write a design brief. Well, here it is.
We’re lucky enough to work a wide variety of projects through our SEO and web design work and the most common thing that we find is that clients don’t actually know how to write a good design brief.
“Why should the client have to write the design brief?” you might ask. Well, it’s a fair question. The answer is that they probably shouldn’t, it’s what we do More >
The importance of a great design brief based on our web design & SEO experiences in Barnsley & Sheffield
Nov 14th
Hello hello!
So, this is a post covering, well, what it says on the tin.
Our blog posts are all about opinions and our experiences, and this one focusses on our experiences working with companies in Sheffield, Barnsley and the rest of Yorkshire and the importance of collecting a great brief before starting any SEO or web design project.
Ok, so; why is a brief so important?
Well it affords you the chance to get to know your client, get to know their products or services and get a feel for the way they work, how they want to be perceived and, most importantly: what their More >
Google’s new Twitter deal – some different thoughts on how it could help you and your business, not just your SEO
Oct 27th
Us geeks have been singing the praises of using Twitter to boost your search rankings for a while now, and some of our clients are certainly directly benefiting from their Twitter use.
This week Google and Microsoft both announced deals to include live Twitter updates in their search results pages, and whilst full details are still under wraps, spending a bit of time getting on top of this could make a huge difference to your online marketing.
So, what could this mean to your business?
- Postal strikes not affecting you? Let people know - Notify the world instantly that you're not affected by any More >
How using Twitter can help to boost your website search engine rankings
Sep 27th
Hey hey
Following this post here we're now elaborating on how using Twitter effectively can actually help boost your website's organic search engine rankings.
Again, this post is really just a bunch of Sheffield SEO geeks telling you guys what we do to help our rankings by using Twitter. There are no real right or wrongs here, it's just opinion. And, as before we assume some things:
- You already have a Twitter account
- You know a little bit about SEO
Let us begin…
Ok, so you've now got your Twitter account up and running and you're well on the way to getting yourself a fair More >
