Well, it’s only taken a whole year, but I’m finally mostly done with a new website for a very talented musician, Stanley Greenthal of Seattle, Washington. You can see it in all its nearly-completed glory at StanleyGreenthal.com, of course.
Stanley counts a couple of excellent professional photographers among his friends, and I’ve used as many of their shots as I could in designing the site. Be sure to visit the Gallery of Strings & Drums to see what a hand-coded photo gallery looks like. I know, I’m a glutton for punishment. But the results blend in perfectly with the rest of the site, something a prepackaged gallery can rarely accomplish.
In the future, however, the galleries will be automated! ‘Nuff said…
Comment by Carmel
1 June 8, 2008, 1:00 am o'clock |
Nice, John. That must have been a LOT of work.
Comment by Steve Ingham
2 June 9, 2008, 9:20 am o'clock |
John, off the subject sorta, but if you got my e-mail, the person to speak to is Andrew Flack at Buzz, inc in Taos…..(ref the websites, etc I mentioned) fyi - Steve in Oklahoma
Comment by Michael Zerman
3 June 10, 2008, 11:28 pm o'clock |
Hi Juanito,
We talked a while ago about SEO (search engine optimisation) and I offered some tips and hints. So now your Stanley Site is up, I’ll bang on again.
1. Each directory must have a title tag, and as you’ve not taken advantage of the 12-16 words available, I’ll write one for you as an example:
http://www.stanleygreenthal.com/index.html
Stanley Greenthal, superb songwriter and master instrumentalist, also arranges music from Brittany, Ireland, the Balkans.
2. Each directory must also have a content-description metatag, which should be no more than 25 words, again as an example;
http://www.stanleygreenthal.com/gigs.html
Stanley Greenthal from Seattle, teaches guitar and mandocello, gives workshops, and runs Uncommon Wedding Music. Current gigs are also listed at the News and Information section.
3. These two examples are simply “quickies”, but a well-written Title-Tag, and a good Content-Description tag are “gold” in the hunt for clickthroughs in the indexed and searched-for world.
I think I sent you my 200 word piece and links to some Tag-Grail earlier, but here it is again.
http://zerman.net/content.html#TitleTagTips032007
Cheers
Michael Z
Adelaide, AUSTRALIA