#1 of about 51,500,000
Sep. 17th, 2009 09:16 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
gerisullivanWhoohoo!
Ladies and gentlemen, faans and fen, I invite you to Google PROmote Communications. Use whatever capitalization (or lack thereof) that you care to.
Yes, that's me in the #1 spot! Go ahead and click away.
The first time I did it today, I was #1 of about 51,500,000 hits, with the search taking 0.46 seconds. Now I'm #1 of 27,900,000 hits, in a search taking 0.15 seconds. The ways of Google are mysterious, but I'm delighted they've found my website and bounced me into the prime position within a week of it being launched.
It's something I've needed to do for 10 years and more. Thanks to help, support, and useful pokes from![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
benveniste, debgeisler, benyalow, and Mr. Improbable himself, I've started at long last.
The site is currently barebones, utterly so. I expect to develop it into a site with significantly more depth (with a navigation bar, subpages, and portfolio examples you can actually see) in the weeks and months ahead.
The basic purpose of the PROmote Communications website (as I currently envision it) is to serve as a credibility check and further introduction to prospective clients. It needs to look professional and up to date (or timeless). It needs to reflect my design sensibilities, which are best summed up as "See it. Read it."
While I may start a PROmote Communications blog, that's not high on my list of perceived needs. Hmmm...maybe if I were to team up with the agency I do most of my employee communications projects with? We could talk about trends and hot topics in wellness newsletters, and maybe generate some more business that way. For now, I'm more likely to just work on featuring some content about that to help highlight my employee benefits communication experience. It's a specialized area most designers know little or nothing about.
I've been using Dreamweaver while generating the html for the Annals of Improbable Research since early last year. I've just begun to learn how to build websites with it. I look forward to knowing a lot more a month from now, then a year and a decade. I expect to do something real with the toad-hall.com website, too, but PROmote Communications is the driving need for now.
Comments, suggestions, and pointers welcome. I especially like Jeanne Gomoll's portfolio pages for Union Street Design. They're much more interesting to look at than the way I see most other graphic designers structure their online portfolios.
What do you like to see in a business website? And what sorts of things do you find annoying? I'm thinking content as well as navigation ease.
Ladies and gentlemen, faans and fen, I invite you to Google PROmote Communications. Use whatever capitalization (or lack thereof) that you care to.
Yes, that's me in the #1 spot! Go ahead and click away.
The first time I did it today, I was #1 of about 51,500,000 hits, with the search taking 0.46 seconds. Now I'm #1 of 27,900,000 hits, in a search taking 0.15 seconds. The ways of Google are mysterious, but I'm delighted they've found my website and bounced me into the prime position within a week of it being launched.
It's something I've needed to do for 10 years and more. Thanks to help, support, and useful pokes from
benveniste, debgeisler, benyalow, and Mr. Improbable himself, I've started at long last. The site is currently barebones, utterly so. I expect to develop it into a site with significantly more depth (with a navigation bar, subpages, and portfolio examples you can actually see) in the weeks and months ahead.
The basic purpose of the PROmote Communications website (as I currently envision it) is to serve as a credibility check and further introduction to prospective clients. It needs to look professional and up to date (or timeless). It needs to reflect my design sensibilities, which are best summed up as "See it. Read it."
While I may start a PROmote Communications blog, that's not high on my list of perceived needs. Hmmm...maybe if I were to team up with the agency I do most of my employee communications projects with? We could talk about trends and hot topics in wellness newsletters, and maybe generate some more business that way. For now, I'm more likely to just work on featuring some content about that to help highlight my employee benefits communication experience. It's a specialized area most designers know little or nothing about.
I've been using Dreamweaver while generating the html for the Annals of Improbable Research since early last year. I've just begun to learn how to build websites with it. I look forward to knowing a lot more a month from now, then a year and a decade. I expect to do something real with the toad-hall.com website, too, but PROmote Communications is the driving need for now.
Comments, suggestions, and pointers welcome. I especially like Jeanne Gomoll's portfolio pages for Union Street Design. They're much more interesting to look at than the way I see most other graphic designers structure their online portfolios.
What do you like to see in a business website? And what sorts of things do you find annoying? I'm thinking content as well as navigation ease.
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Date: 2009-09-19 01:51 am (UTC)Yeah, editing for clean appearance at that tiny size is horrid; see the not very good Minn-StF logo at that size, which is my word unless somebody replaced the file since I put it there.
Web sites for print-plus-web designers and publication people are among the hardest, since the design and site architecture instantly becomes the main piece in your portfolio. In most markets these days you need to have one, though; I really don't think yours is an exception, and I guess you don't either or we wouldn't be discussing your new site!
It's quite a good first step. I agree it needs more meat. Here's hoping paying work delays that for am embarrassing length of time :-).