I have designed a few websites (none of them very good), and my primary consideration has been that it should Google with certain search terms. To be honest I have always been (relatively) successful. Back in the day when I 'designed' my first website I decided it was a good idea to use frames. How wrong I was, in the beginning (mid 90s) search engines would pick up websites built with frames, there were a few problems but in the main they worked OK.
Then came Google this 'search engine' appears to have taken over the internet and other search engines just appear to re-brand it. The problem seems to be that Google is smart and that for that reason it doesn't crawl frames pages so now my website won't appear in any searches. The time has finally come for me to rebuild my site. Why? Partly because I can but mainly because if I can't type 'nate (or nathan) allen bristol england' into a search engine and get my website to appear somewhere in the list (at the top would be good) then my website is entirely pointless and won't succeed in boosting my ego.
Incidentally this website is entirely pointless it simply consists of a collection of bad jokes I made during the 90s, when the worst spam email you would receive would be 'joke a day'. I also decided to put a few other daft things like the downloads section (which is a couple of dodgy un PC games and a couple of poor quality videos). I have put this area to use over the years making software (only freeware mind) available to friends that cant find that essential tool they need but they know I have. The addition of a JPGs area was some pictures of South Park, which were pretty good wallpapers, has now been removed and has been replaced by the most pointless of all of my efforts; a countdowns area. This area has nothing to do with Channel 4 and is simply a way of me being able to tell how long it is before I go on holiday or how long to Christmas etc.
My main problem is that I am a frustrated IT Manager (wanna be web designer) that has only really had the opportunity to create web based applications for work, all of them use ASP and SQL and ho hum I cannot use either of those with this service provider. One of my biggest gripes with not having ASP was that I cannot do any of the fancy dynamic stuff so I have turned to javascript to try to make the site have some dynamic elements (mainly the quote of the day which used to be quote of the month, but was really quote of the year). If you do happen to come across this website and you bother to read any of this rambling (if you happen to be Nathan Allen) then do contact me, I will post if this site happens to be any more successful than the last (it couldn't be worse now could it)?
With regard to the quotes being about drink and not my view well that's not really true I have to go along with my role model in life 'To alcohol! The cause of - and solution to - all of life's problems!' Here's to you Homer may you still be going strong in another 20 years.
Maybe
I will write more ramblings
in the future. I am sure this will turn into a blog to moan
about...
