Four Shapes is an experienced team of web designers and developers. Currently we’re taking on the building and development of our own applications, in the meantime we're available to convert a few sites a week over to a search engine friendly, css/xhtml (layer based) layout - moving your site away from those sluggish tables. First off, why would you want to change the coding at the front end of your site? Much faster loading times We converted a site from table based layout to a layer based one (using divs, CSS and xhtml), the file size difference between the two pages, meant that the page was around 18% it’s original size. Old – Invalid, table based layout 45.1 kb http://fourshapes.com/sites/listedwrong/oldindex.html New – Valid, layer based layout 8.03 kb http://fourshapes.com/sites/listedwrong/index.html Job thread: http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=97349 That's faster loading times, less bandwidth used and puts an end to visitors leaving because the page is taking too long to load! On-page search engine optimisation Using XHTML/CSS based layouts is effective optimisation. By reducing the code and combined with correct use of html tags, search engines will find your content easier to digest and understand the content contained within. For further reading: http://www.alistapart.com/stories/seo/ As an example to that, we recently helped a band create a site that was designed in a way that encouraged search engine friendliness throughout the web pages. After a few weeks it was on the first page and top results on yahoo for one of his major search terms. Before he had no positioning, now he was top. With no extra marketing efforts! www.undercover.me.uk Flexible design Using CSS to style your page, redesign becomes something that’s easy to do. You just edit the CSS file and the whole look of your page can change. By clicking the links at the side of this site - http://csszengarden.com – you can see what happens when using the same code on the page, but changing the styles. Lower redevelopment costs! Pricing & You Front page solutions, are around $85 (+paypal fees) and up-words depending on the site and time it will take to convert. What we'll require from you: photoshop/illustrator files for us to edit any of your graphics. To keeping the quality of your existing design up. Your major keywords and a bit of business background, so we have a feel for what you're trying to put across. Finally any special instructions that you might want to include. A site will usually done the day after payment to convert the first page from tables, adding the css, changing the XHTML, matching the previous design and testing. We're a UK registered company and our site is http://fourshapes.com. Payment will be made at job start and job completion, equating to a 50% split, before and after. If you want to go for a cheap solution please by all means do so, and if anything goes wrong we'll be here to help. If you want to take us on for other solutions, such as vastly improving your site’s usability and accessibility, feel free to let us know. Professional front-end developers Our service includes: Expert CSS coding, with browser testing - to ensure it displays correctly on all the below user-agents: * Windows Internet explorer: 5.0.1+ * Firefox: 1.07+ * Opera: 8.51+ * Safari: 2.0+ * Netscape browser: 8.0.2+ * Mozilla: 1.7.0+ All pages we create are valid HTML 4.01 or XHTML 1.0 transitional/strict. However 1.1 strict is only for true XHTML pages which serve pages as application/xhtml+xml, if you don’t know what we're talking about – don’t worry! We'll make sure we get the choice right for you. A commented CSS file, to help you find your way around after we've finished our work. 20 minutes consultation time, via skype, if you need a bit of help getting your site sorted. Our professional approach to work is partnered with our friendly manner. Overall it's a great investment that will bring your site into the 21st century and we look forward to working with you. Kind Regards, Adam Craven
Thanks for the kind words Taking on a limited number of clients over the next week or so. Let me know soon if you're interested in well coded, search engine friendly sites.
Hiya fellers, We've produced some beautifully coded sites recently and it's going to be a busy week, so I can only slot in two conversions. Please get in touch soon, we'd love to help Kind regards, Adam Craven Recent sites completed last week nb. All linked sites on our webspace will not be crawled by spiders. Las Vegas Tours: http://www.paradisefoundtours.com/ To CSS: http://fourshapes.com/sites/paradisefound/index.html Dating site: http://www.japanesecupid.com/ To CSS: http://fourshapes.com/sites/japanesecupid/index.html Other recent work PSD to site:
[url="http://codepress.co.uk][/url] Due the uncommonly great clients we've had through Digital Point, we've decided to offer this as a permanent service for businesses. Our aim is to open up in a few weeks time, offering a premier coding service with these goals in mind: Search engine friendly, higher rankings. Cleaner code, faster downloads. Great looking on every major browser. Easier to maintain, simple to re-style. Reach the widest possible audience through high accessibility. Professionally produced to high standards. Please feel free to send me a message if you're interested in our services this week Availabilty for 2 jobs. Look forward hopefully working with you, Adam
We do Mickelbeck, but that's through Four Shapes itself. Specifically experience in creating brands and highly functional websites We're reasonably priced and Pete, the main designer, has around 20 years of experience as a graphics artist.