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Joomla and wordpress should alays be optimized. Not only the theme itself like graphics and code. You should optimize php and the database (which means you need root access). If you use wordpress a good idea is to install the plugin wp-super-cashe.

This wordpress theme is not optimized but yesterday I worked on a clients theme. I managed to cut down the loading time with approximately 3 sec and that took me hours. If your site take longer to load than 5 sec you should do something about it. Most people get utterly annoyed by slow sites. Don’t just install wordpress like me and start writing. Optimize it first.

Speed is more important than a pretty theme for many customers.

Okay. Just wanted to tell some people why shared hosting isn’t really an alterantive for most serious businesses.

This is why – the unlimited space, transfer, bandwidth etc is just a sales pitch. It doesnt mean anything unless your hosting a site without a database and who does that nowadays? mmmhhh not many.

What is the number of allowed simultaneous database connections? That’s what you should ask the hosting company. A lot of companies would say maybe 12-15 which means your screwed if a lot of people starts to visiting your site and screwed if you paid for a expensive ad campaign.

VPS managed or unmanaged (if you don’t understand) is a better solution and not as expensive as a dedicated server. Start with VPS.

It’s not easy to find a good webhost. There is so many different once to choose from. I’m a designer and webdeveloper so I use and try many different once. I get some free offers you see. I can sit in front of my computer for days trying to find good hosting and let me tell you. It’s probably easier to find a good husband. 

So what advice can I give you if your looking for a hosting company?

1. Uptime bullshit. Don’t believe the 99,9 % uptime guarantee bullshit cause it is simply bullshit. If you read the term carefully there are often a lot of exceptions and different hosting companies understand the term differently.

2. Google the term bluehost sucks as an example. It will give you a lot of information about how much bluehost sucks. There is even a website called bluehostsucks.com dedicated to warn peole to sign up with bluehost. If your thinking about getting hostgator. Google hostgator sucks. Problem is – it seams like most hostingcompanies has angry customers.

3. The most important for you is to have reliable hosting and speed. It’s not easy to find! Cheap hosting is not an option if your running a ecommerce store. Imagine what would happen if you run googleads and people clicking on your ad can’t get to your site. It can end up with an awful amount of loss for your company. If you have an ecommerce site – invest in reliable hosting. If you pay a little bit more they would be more concerned of keeping you as a customer. If you only pay 5 USD they can just say fuck you – she/he is stealing too much bandwidth anyway.

4. Check your credit card so the company doesnt charge you anyway. Sometime they can be sneky. It happened to me once. I always use a credit card with limited credit when I purchase online but you know. Be careful. I got a year free with the hostingcompany “scam” justhost and guess what – this company will try to rip you off in all kind of ways. They even hide text using CSS so you might think your getting something free but if you check the html code ou can see an asterix “by the way, we will charge your card”. That text was hidden with CSS. They also come up different offers like Your site has been nominated the best- therefore we will offer you this and that and you save. As soon as you come across a company with a car-salesman attitude – run.

5. The worst thing that has ever happened to me is that a site I had created was down for 6 days. The company Bluehost was responsible. If I hadn’t noticed it would probably still be down. They couldn’t even give money back or offer a month free as a compensation. check out bluehostsucks.com. 

Oh my I love customer revolution

6. I heard about a person who used hostgator. The company suspended his hosting because of copyright infridgement. Turns out his businesscompetition had been a little bit naughty and hostgator decied to believe in his competitors.

7. If you have a website in sweden focusing on the swedish market you should get a webhost close to sweden, not in the US.

8. I have only tried one swedish webhosting company and thats binero.se. I am utterly surprised by the great customer service but I’m just using this host temporalily in my serach for a VPS server.

9. You can’t really believe in all the top 10 reviews. Some people just review after the information hosting companies provide or they are paid to say sertain things. I believe you have to listen to the customers and why not ask for a one months free trial without paying in advance. The competition big – they should give you that.

Are you one of those people who loves flash? One of those people who want a full blown flash website? Then you might also have heard that a flash website will make your business melt away because flash isn’t search engine friendly.

Let me tell you this. It’s a lie.

You can have a  flash website and you can have it score high in the google and yahoo search ranking. Let’s tell you how.

There is a technique when you embed flash movies that are search engine friendly and white hat! (White hat means that it’s an ethical method). 

The method is called swfobject which means you embed the flash movie and use alt content. This means that people who don’t have flash will be advised to download flash but also able to read your site without having to download it.  However it’s not as easy as it sounds. You want to update your flash-text and html text at the same time so some xml and action script coding is necessary but it’s probably what you want to see anyway when you have a flash site.

Okay. This was short. But it feels important to tell all you guys who believes the flash haters out there that you can have a search engine friendly flash site.

SEO friendly website?

Photo: Chris Heads/New Blood Agency

Quality is perfection in details/ However: Perfection requires the right amount of imperfection or provocation or the product will not be uninteresting-the photo above is great example – just like photography and art Great web design stirs the viewers imagination. Great web design delivers an idea or a feeling- tells you a story. To deliver the right idea to your customers we need to know what they want to deliver. Communication is very important in the beginning of a project /Pictures must be of very high quality and choosing the right pictures are very important. We can buy pictures for you or you can send us the pictures you want to use and we take care of the optimization /User friendliness and search engine friendliness is also the key to great webdesign, but sometimes you have to decide what is most important for your audience.

Style

Customers want different things. Some want trashy realism beauty some want corporate shiny clean stiff as fuck. There are many styles out there and there is no style that we can not deliver. Our artistic ideas is something we can put aside to create the style you want.

What we offer our customers:

- 100 % satisfaction guaranteed
- We analyze the project carefully before we start working with the technical parts of the project to make sure we understand your requirements and ideas.
- Privacy. We offer 100 % privacy if required. This means we will not use you as a reference.

How we work/the process:

- We send out a form that you should fill out so we can understand you better.
- We set up a meeting (via skype or online if your not available for a meeting in London).
- We work on our own server. We will send you a link.
- When you are happy with the product we will install it on your server or send you a rar/zip file.