Upgrading Live-Media Websites - Stat Tracking

I am currently in the process of installing and testing various stat-tracking services that provide site owners with information on their sites popularity. Services such as Googles Analytics show detailed graphs per day/hour, that can provide useful bits of info to help identify the type of audience their site attracts. If successful, this service will become standard with most websites developed and designed by Live-Media.co.uk.

Update: www.Art74.co.uk - Webdesign for Painting Portfolio Gallery

This project should be nearing an end soon, although the client has some big ideas to expand the shop front further down the line! Over the last few days I have been optimizing the site for search engines. As with any new website, it takes a long time and hard work to get your site ranked high on google and other search engines. Most people tend to think you just throw a few keywords in your meta tags but its no longer that simple! Anyway, the client has shown great enthusiasm in producing more content for the site and also looking for link exchange opportunities. There have also been some design tweaks here and there, once more the clients paintings really make a big impact and I'm tempted to make a purchase on one of the paintings myself :)

New Project: www.Live-Media.co.uk - Webdesign site Re-Design

Over the coming weeks I will be re-designing the Web site Design and Graphic Design site - www.Live-Media.co.uk to improve the ranking on Google and to refine the target audience. There will also be an overhaul in the setup in regards to pricing and defining in more detail, exactly what is on offer to avoid confusion with future clients. This project is currently at the concept stage of development and no publishing date has yet been set.

Update: www.Art74.co.uk - Webdesign for Painting Portfolio Gallery

Earlier this week, Designer - www.live-media.co.uk held a meeting with Online Art Gallery - www.art74.co.uk, who expressed a desire to alter a number of design features that they had changed their minds about. This is always an issue in any design field, especially when the client has some graphic design expertise themselves. The site is much cleaner then before and we also feel the clients best painting work is now more prominent. The shop front has also gone through considerable alterations, matching the clean feel of the main site design. The interactive element of the flash animation has also been changed, giving the user more choice.

Update: www.Art74.co.uk - Webdesign for Painting Portfolio Gallery

www.Art74.co.uk - Painting Portfolio Gallery is a recent site started late 2006 and has two core purposes for the client.

• Firstly, to act as a permanent portfolio to showcase the best of their paintings and design work to prospective employees and;
• Secondly, as an online gallery & shop, allowing visitors & Art fans to browse the paintings and even make payments through the websites shop (using a secure paypal payment system).

Further more, the client was keen on creating a forum where other artists may communicate techniques and critiques of works, or alternatively for just general discussion. Alongside this, a feedback page was created, so visitors may read opinions on the clients paintings and designs from others. The client wanted their site to contain some flash animation, that would help the site stand out from other art portfolio sites. As flash is not helpful in getting high rankings with search engines, it was decided only a mini-bio would be contained within.