Customer Street and UFindUs Web Design

I have made the following additions to the Web Design and SEO Blogs. The additions will be made to the CSS Blog soon.

• Privacy Policy
• Terms of Use
• Sitemap
• Contact Form
• Additional RSS Options

The Privacy Policy and Terms of Use pages have been added for more than one reason. They offer Privacy information so you know how we handle your details aswell as letting you know the terms of use of both our blogs and directories. The other main reason is that Google likes to see websites with these statements. Afterall this is something that generally only the larger and more corporate companies take in to account. A small business may not think these are important but we advise that you add these to your website.

The Sitemap is also another important factor. Visitors to our blogs can now visit a page that links to every page on our blog. This should make navigating around easier. Also when a search engine hots the sitemap page it can gets a full list of all the pages on the site. Helping with SEO and getting as many pages indexed as possible.

If you have a WordPress Blog and want to join in with Naked Day tomorrow then Aja Lorenzo Lapus has created a plugin to make life easier for you.

Just install the plugin and select if you want to join in for the recommended 48 hours or just 24 hours.

You can download the plugin on WordPress or the Plugin Home Page.

Tomorrow is ‘CSS Naked Day’ but unfortunatley the Customer Street blogs are to corporate to go naked. It’s a shame because it’s for a good cause.

Why go naked ?

It’s not for money or charity, it’s simply to promote and encourage web standards. All you need to do is remove all the styles from your website to join in. This is the third year of CSS Naked Day and every year there has been a huge responce.

It has been mentioned to me that this is considered ‘Geeky’ but as Alex (Customer Street CSS) pointed out

It’s to promote web standards, and seeing as MOST of today’s business uses the web in some form, I think you’ll find that having standards is a very good idea.

Alex will be joinging with http://www.syst3m32.co.uk and it’s already looking to be a fun day.

You can find more information on CSS Naked Day, code for your website and a list of some sites going naked for the day on http://naked.dustindiaz.com/

As a new feature I have introduced a new home page for the Customer Street Design blog.

I have done this for several reasons.

• To give out a set message rather than a forever changing page full of design articles
• So that the text can be more easily customized for search engine rankings
• To have a slightly different home page to the other blogs

If it works well and our targetted phrases achieve higher rankings then I will probably apply a similar concept to all the Customer Street Blogs.

I will add more updates as they arise.

The MoreUK Directory update is almost complete.

The results pages have had a much overdue revamp and you can now view the new results for Plumber in Leeds.

What do you think ?