Archive for June, 2008

19/06/08

Sanyo, Noblex y Atma, better positioned and more visits

CUOMA managed to increase the visits to the Newsan group brands Sanyo, Noblex and Atma websites.

“Every year there are more Internet users who make different visits and web searches from their homes. That´s why we came to CUOMA in order to make our brands offer the information that the navigator is looking for in a more attractive and easy way,” indicates Marcelo Romeo, Newsan’s advertising manager.

CUOMA, the design and communication study led by Adrián Ojeda, Santiago Martínez and Fabián Cuenca, made Newsan’s brands web site visits increase between 80% and 200% due to their redesign made in 2007.

During the last quarter of 2007, CUOMA managed to treble the website visits compared to the same quarter of the previous year. This proves that Cuoma managed to position Newsan’s web as attractive and simple for their clients giving them easy access to the brand’s information and products.

After the redesign made to every website, taking into consideration the different targets and each brand’s characteristic, an increase of 174% was registered in the visits of the Atma website, 86% in Noblex and 209% in Sanyo.

With a more elaborated design, a modern and technological look and feel, Cuoma managed to modernize the appearance of the products in line with the attributes of the brands, as well as optimize the performance of the sites having them index-linked to the search engines in order to make them appear first.

02/06/08

Flash Abuse

When used excessively or in inappropriate places, Flash is terrible for SEO (Search Engine Optimization)and your visitors. I clarify, Flash is a premium program which allows creative multimedia designers to produce excellent works. However, at CUOMA, we never or almost never use flash in web design, neither in intros nor in navigation.

Navigation
This is the most common way of abuse, Flash navigation is extremely bad for a number of reasons:

-Search Engine Optimization: having text on your website is the most important thing. Search Engines use text for indexing your site. The problem with Flash is that the search engines do not go inside Flash files to collect the text information.

-Page loading time: Using Flash for your navigation will slow down the loading time for your web page.

-Not user-friendly: Two things, the aim of website design is to provide simple navigation throughout your website. In Flash navigation the visitor must wait for an animation to load completely each time their mouse click an item. People hate waiting!. And the last thing is that not everyone is using Flash.

Flash Intros
The worst way to use Flash is on your website’s intro. Most people are impatient when surfing the web, many of them do not have patience to watch a Flash intro.
If it is impossible not to have a flash intro, please, include a “Skip Intro” button that is clearly visible to the user. But we think that there is to try to avoid the flash intros.

OK, But, What is the Best Practices in Web Design?
The best way to build a professional website is by using CSS (cascading style sheets). If you need more information, visit http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS