Well, it’s not very often I get as excited about something as I am with the new Gighit. It’s been a long time in the making, most of the time just bubbling away at the back of my head. NOW those thoughts are becoming a reality.
Alen and I have been working tirelessly for the last 2 months on the new Gighit. Designing, coding and now plugging in all of the bells and whistles that are going to make this website (hopefully) rock your social worlds.
I’m not going to reveal anything yet other than the logo (above), even though it’s been bouncing around for a few months on the web THIS is it’s official ‘launch’.
Other than that I can reveal the new beast is being coded in Python/Django and will be hitting your monitors in December 2008. When it’s live we will let you know here first!
I’ve just had a check and Caffeinehit is back as #1 for the Google search term “graphic designer london“, at least on Google UK. Caffeinehit.com has been in the top 10 for some time and was briefly at #1 earlier in the year. I tweaked the SEO and markup of the site a month or so ago and it appears to have done the trick.
I find that 80% of my work comes through Google searches and other online networking websites. Getting your SEO fully optimised and streamlining the site code will more than pay for the time you spend working on it. Updating the code and making changes to enhance your listing on search engines like Google should ideally be done every month to keep your site on the first page.
I realise that there is a hell of a lot more to it that simple tweeking the code, if you can find that balance and get the code and copy right on the site you’re on to a winner.
Now I really do need to blog about this before someone else casts me in a bad light. I’ve been coding on a Mac now for about 6 years. One of the more annoying aspects of coding with CSS is the lack of a # key on the keyboard - laugh it up PC peeps.
Anyway, it was only last week. 6 years after first starting out on the development road that someone pointed out you have to just press ‘Alt 3′ and hey presto, more # keys than you can shake a stick at.
Thanks Drew.
How shameful!