Jigsaw Blog / Our Thoughts On Web Design

How Does Google Rank My Site?

Posted February 24th, 2008 | No Comments

Following the success of the last post How Much Does A Website Cost? This post will answer another frequently asked question. This time it’s How Does Google Rank My Site?

As with the previous post, there is no straight and easy answer to this question as nobody outside of Google HQ knows for sure. We do have some guidelines to help us understand though.

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How much does a website cost?

Posted February 18th, 2008 | No Comments

The most asked question in web design without any exception is how much does a website cost? Unfortunately we can’t answer that question as it varies so much between different web design agencies. In fact, we can’t even answer how much it would cost for a website from us as it again varies greatly depending on things like the size of the project and features required.

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Web standards and why YOU should care about them!

Posted February 13th, 2008 | No Comments

Had this blog been around a few years ago, the topic of web standards would have been the top of our priority list.
Luckily these days people are generally more aware of web standards, however there are still enough designers either unaware of them or still ignoring them to make it worth discussing here.

So what are web standards?

First we need to get a little bit technical, I know this blog is… [ Continue reading this post... ]

What is this blog about?

Posted February 7th, 2008 | No Comments

Firstly, if you don’t know what a blog is read this post. If you don’t know how to subscribe to a blog via RSS, read this post.

Who is it for?

This blog is developed and written by Jigsaw Internet Solutions, it is aimed at anybody that runs, manages, purchases or has any involvement with websites but are not actually designers themselves.

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What is RSS or ‘news feeds’?

Posted February 7th, 2008 | No Comments

What is RSS?

RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication. They are also often described as ‘News Feeds’.
RSS Feeds are most often used on sites with regularly updated content, for example a blog or a news site. Put simply, it is a way of ‘subscribing’ to a websites content. The main benefit of this is that you are notified when a website is updated without having to keep visiting the site… [ Continue reading this post... ]