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Luxury Property Italy website created

Posted by Paul at 5:22 pm

New website created for a company selling luxury property in Italy.

Invicta website and online race entry system

Posted by Paul at 11:06 am

Website completed for Invicta East Kent Athletics Club along with an online race entry system, and a race-day results system now used successfully for the Canterbury 10 mile road race.

Embedding Flash content

Posted by Paul at 8:38 pm

Many websites utilising Flash content are now displaying a message “click to activate and use this control”. The reason for this is that Microsoft lost a legal battle and had to update Internet Explorer.

There are ways to prevent this problem occurring, and we use the swfobject method to present Flash content (try a Google search for “swfobject” or “flashobject”). For an example, view UK removals company Simpsons website. The Flash content previously showed the “activate” message, but now has been converted.

The new Internet Explorer Version 7 does not change the requirements, so all site owners should check their site and update as necessary.

Map of Piedmont – Google Maps API

Posted by Paul at 3:58 pm

Italian real estate website Piedmont Property is now live, and uses the Google Maps API to display a map of Piedmont along with icons which represent each house for sale on the website.

Potential clients can scroll the map to find an area they are looking to buy a property in, and then click on an icon to view a thumbnail of the property along with the price and short description. If they then click on the thumbnail, the main details page for that property is displayed.

Good fun and hopefully a genuinely useful feature of the website.

Search Engines and Session ID’s

Posted by Paul at 3:03 pm

A recent client was mystified as to why their website was featuring so poorly in the Google rankings for their specified keywords.It didn’t take long to discover the cause, session id’s…

Most search engines trawl the internet with cookies turned off, which prompts PHP to append a session ID to the URL when it enters a site that is using sessions (eg. example-website-name.com/index.php?PHPSESSID=ab123456789abc). The problem with this is that the page will be indexed by the search engine with the session id appended. Due to the unique value used each time for each session, this means that next time the search engine visits the page it will be looking for the previous ID value but will be allocated a new value as a new session is started. Thus the page will be reindexed with the new session value.This will happen very time, and has two main consequences:
1) The page ranking is ‘diluted’ between each indexed version of the same page,
2) When your pages are returned in a search engine the URL will look very messy and unfriendly.

There is much information on the internet about dealing with this problem, so I will just summarise the main points.
1) Stop it happening in the first place, by using cookies where possible rather than sessions (bear in mind that cookies have their own issues!).
2) prevent known search engine spiders from starting a session.
3) redirect search engine spiders to a version of the URL having removed the session id (use 301 permanent redirects).
4) Remove indexed pages with session ids appended by re-submitting the offending URL’s (perform step 3 first!).

Lyonheart Sports Training website

Posted by Paul at 4:58 pm

Website to be developed for Sports Training Camp company Lyonheart Sports Training.