Appendix 1 SEO (Search Engine Optimisation)

Included in the website is some Search Engine Optimisation, or SEO for short. After doing a little bit of research into the topic, I discovered 2 areas I included in my website.

The first of those areas, was Meta Tags. Doing a little Research into Meta tags, I discovered that there are a few types of Meta tags, the most common two being Keywords, which is now infamous on the web and very few Search engines look at them, and Description, Which I decided to include in my website.

The other Way was to include Site Maps, Which can be generated online for free, and Which I included both a HTML and a XML Site map in the pages that were relevant.

A way to show the results of the SEO is using google analytics, which records the data of each user who visits the site. I've also Included this into the website and have taken a Screenshot of Google Analytics for the website.

Review

In my mind, I felt like had couldn't get to grips with the design techniques thatwere being taught, but after a while, I designed the way it felt right and so I think I'll have to work out my own ways of designing, in a more practical sence in future projects.

From a coding point of view, I feel that I didn't do well, and I don't really enjoy working with code, and for any project in the future, I hope I will be able to concentrate more on the Front End Design rather than the Code.

With SEO, I feel like it's something I could do, and if I put my mind to it could really work with it, But I just don't find it as appeling as Designing the Front end of a website, and the SEO may have lacked in quality.

Finally, overall, I don't think I left myself enough time to work well with the code and SEO, and concentrated a lot of my efforts on the design. If I had another chance to do this project, I would spread my concentration over all 3 aspects of this module more than I have already, making a more even balence of Code, to SEO, to design.

Finished Design

http://mwilkinson.artdesignhull.ac.uk/