We were commissioned by the textile artist Vidhya Lockyer to update and improve her website. The original site looked good but was created in Flash which has a number of disadvantages, primarily poor search engine visibility. When we took on the project the site was unknown to any of the major search engines.

The client accepted our redesign recommendations. We recreated the site in HTML, which is easier for search engines to read and therefore index ready to be available for searches. The look of the site is very similar to the original version - it includes samples of her work and background explanation about the techniques used.

Our service included submitting the site to the major search engines, including Google, AltaVista and The Open Directory Project.

The site was launched on 8 September 2003.

We obtained a listing on dmoz.org, The Open Directory Project, by 23 October. The Open Directory Project is important because it is a human-edited directory shared out to many other search engines. The site was also available on AltaVista by this date.

By 31 October the site was available from Google too, as the screen shot demonstrates - top result for search term "textile artist berkshire."

The site also appears as result 22 for search term "textile artist england" in Google.

A good example of the speed we can get sites listed in the important search engines and directories.

See also our search engine considerations page. Search engine results detailed above were investigated on 22 November 2003.