Quote:
Originally Posted by smeagain
If it's not too late, I would sugest that you design your web pages in HTML using a tool designed for the job.
My experience of sites created in Photoshoop is that they are problematic in many ways. One of the main problems is Search Engine UNfriendliness. Invariably these sites end up being reworked with conventional design tools because they are fraught with problems and just don't perform.
|
I agree with smeagain. As a Marketing Executive I had to fight with company's hired web designers to not use Photoshop themes. Yes, Photoshop allows the creation of really artistic sites, but what you gain in aesthetics, you loose at usability. CSS themes alone allow creating colorful sites, and eventually a logo or a fluid header consisting of three images of which two are overlapping may be sufficient, except if you make a site for promoting artistic graphics.
According to my experience, visitors do seek content, useful information, and pictures are useful if they support the text. Otherwise images just distract visitors away from the main purpose of the site.
But we used to have artistic ambitions, and challenging the hard way is so beautiful...
Look, my ugly site for seocontest2008 made 5 days ago is positioned as number 135 on Google from amongst 250,000 pages listed in the search results for the keyword seocontest2008.
I really didn't afford time for it, it has only two mini pages, just to gain some position, and I will start adding content and beautifying it after 2-3 days only.
But, time being it serves its main purpose regardless to its ugliness.
Okay, make your nice photoshop creation, but make it simple. Where ever it's possible, fill the color with html code, or just place a one pixel width color image that you can stretch as you like. Then convert all images into optimized gif pictures using a custom color palette with a minimum of necessary colours. This may reduce the overload.