Archive for June, 2007

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.

Andrew Gatenby Freelance Web Designer, Developer & Geek