New website what to go for

[Red5]

Did mine using Opencart: including a Online Design tool, for mugs etc.
Total cost: Domain, web-hosting, Design Tool, £65 + a LOT OF EFFORT 2 months on and off solid, with a little help from a Web guy from work.
cant supply the link as i sell " some copyrighted Name's + logos on stock items, but Google Opencart it is by far the easiest and cheapest way by far.



Daz

[k21john]

I would go with the HTML5 site if you haven't already. Two reasons, flash is on the way out and being slowly deprecated. Youtube have already binned off flash now for HTML5 video playback & some businesses restrict and even block Java from corporate browsers. You're effectively limiting your reach using either.

HTML5 is the way ahead.

Just my 2 bobs worth

Just a point, web search engine spiders can't read Flash files or images, they like text and a little point to help with SEO is they also like to see change, so update text on a regular basis as it will help bump you up the search engine rankings....

[bigj2552]

Did mine using Opencart: including a Online Design tool, for mugs etc.
Total cost: Domain, web-hosting, Design Tool, £65 + a LOT OF EFFORT 2 months on and off solid, with a little help from a Web guy from work.
cant supply the link as i sell " some copyrighted Name's + logos on stock items, but Google Opencart it is by far the easiest and cheapest way by far.
Daz

agree 100% with RED here.
we just undergoing yet another web site change, still using the opencart platform, as it offers us more options to change coding, layout and other bits n bobs you just cant do if you got a pre-defined web sites like WIX, WEEBLY and all the others ones that are flying about.

sure the opencart site takes a bit of thought, and it can be a right PITA sometimes to get right ( ask justin lol ), but its has that much more scope in terms of things you can do, and add to it that makes it the one to go for.

ones can get a simple site up n running within the hr, no bother.
if you know what you are doing, then 15/20 mins lol

[customprints]

Hi K21John. Just to reply to your comment re Google can't read images, That is what the image "alt" tag is used for. To describe the image, that is how you get your images indexed in google. Just my 2p's worth to help others with a little bit of on-page optimization.

[matzy]

Hi Red,

What is the design tool you use? I would be interested in taking a look at that please as i'm currently working on our site using Opencart..

Did mine using Opencart: including a Online Design tool, for mugs etc.
Total cost: Domain, web-hosting, Design Tool, £65 + a LOT OF EFFORT 2 months on and off solid, with a little help from a Web guy from work.
cant supply the link as i sell " some copyrighted Name's + logos on stock items, but Google Opencart it is by far the easiest and cheapest way by far.



Daz