We are kind of old-fashioned. The president of Blue Planet Offices has been creating websites since 1994. Our news division, GLINN Media Corporation has been in business since 1987. In those days there were no graphical design programs such as Front Page. All the code was written by hand, although HTML editing programs are used to speed up the process. We actually still do it that way. There are many advantages to this approach.
We produce websites to meet business goals. We execute your vision but with clearcut goals in mind. We do not produce websites to try to prove how talented we are or how clever we can be. We do not produce complicated websites that will cost you a fortune. We produce websites that are clean, sites that load fast, and are easy to update in the future. We produce clean and properly executed code that search engines love and you will quickly get good positions in all the major search engines.
Our web sites might be called "simple" but that is a simpification. There are exceptions, but generally the visitor to your site is interested in information and wants to obtain that information as quickly and easily as possible. The visitor is not going to be impressed by complicated and cluttered web pages. People are seldom impressed by animations or Flash or other gimmicks. The code we produce is also a good start for the mobile web. We can easily produce web sites for both personal computers and mobile devices.
One example of a "simple" site we did recently is Bootsscoots.com. This site is for a new motorcycle and scooter repair business. This site shows our photographic work. We have a Philosophy on Photography and unique approach that produces great results. We know how to get your site into the major search engines and get good search results. The owners and many other people were amazzed at how quickly it appeared on Google.com and the excellent position it achieved in search results. Some people pay big money to SEO (Search Engine Optimization) companies to get better search results using all sorts of tricks, but we do it the old-fashioned way, getting you better search results without any tricks for which you will be penalized later. Read why SEO Is Not Needed except for poorly done websites.
A webpage is written in HTML. HTML consists primarily of tags within brackets. It is basicly text which the computer's internet browser interprets and the computer displays.
Today there are numerous graphical design programs, so just about anyone can call themselves a web designer and produce websites. It might be pretty, but there are usually many problems right below the surface. These designers also often have little understanding of how search engines work and produce code that is so poorly done it seriously affects your position in search results. Having a fancy website is not going to do you much good if it does not come up on the first page or first few pages in search results. If the site is difficult to navigate or slow to load, you will lose customers. You probably will never even realize it, they will just click away.
Another problem with graphical web design programs is that they produce code that is hundreds of times more complicated than the ideal. Everytime an image is moved, the program inserts dozens or hundreds of tiny transparent images into the page. It inserts tons of other code everytime a change is made. This makes the page load slower because all that code has to be transmitted to the user's computer, interpreted by the browser and displayed.
Some webpage designers don't even use a HTML editing program. Instead they use a word processing program or a desktop publishing program and export the page to HTML. This is the worst possible code for a webpage.
Although 66.2 million users have a broadband connection to the internet, over 30 million subscribers use dialup access. How fast a webpage loads has a very direct impact on if a person will wait to see your page. People have little patience with the internet (and many other things of course) and will quickly click away to the competition if your page loads too slow.
Another problem will bite you later when you want to make changes to your site. A website done with a graphical editor creates code that is virtually unreadable by a human being. If you want a different company or individual, other than the one doing the original version, to make changes to your site if will be very difficult and expensive. The only practical way to make changes is to find someone who uses the same graphical program, and then make changes which will render the code much worse and make it even more unworkable.
One further major problem is that the users of the graphical design programs often do not edit the photographs they use. The web code can force the image to any size. However, the image is then still very large and takes a long time to load. The oversized image does not improve image quality, it actually reduces it.
Blue Planet writes code directly and it is clear and well organized. It will be easy for anyone to make changes in the future. This will not cost you any more than what other companies charge using graphical programs. We properly edit photographs so they load quickly and are still of excellent quality.
You have heard the saying, "the more things change, the more they stay the same."
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