Andrew Gatenby

Ethics Girls Shop

Recently launched via PointOV is a new ethical fashion and magazine website for women. Ethics Girls is a brand new website that I have been working on, developing the eCommerce area of the website and ensuring that the shop is highly optimised for SEO and accessibility.

To view the website, please visit www.ethicsgirls.co.uk/shop/

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Alpine Sports Websites

During my time at Uni I was involved with the Alpine Sports Club because they did cool things like snowboarding, and after the influence of alcohol had taken hold, a bit of extreme sledging.

After building a website to host the photos taken from the first holiday I went on with the club, I was asked me to put together an official homepage for the club to promote the club and it’s events.

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Tell Crawlers Your Sitemap Location via robots.txt

A recent announcement from Google and Yahoo! led to their crawling engines to support an additional directive that can be included in the robots.txt file. By using the “Sitemap:” directive, you can tell crawlers the absolute URL of the XML sitemap for your website:

Sitemap: http://www.youdomain.com/sitemap.xml

Of course, you can still tell Yahoo! and Google about your sitemap and get some useful information on your website by using Google Webmaster Tools and Yahoo! Siteexplorer.