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Classic case of an over enthusiastic web-designer let loose. The basics of good web design from a visual point of view are these -

Inform the viewer what you offer.
Inform the viewer who you are.
Keep the viewers interest.

There are of course millions of designs out there on the web and everyone's idea of what is attractive is different.

But people go on to the Internet to find information. And they don't wait! If your site doesn't let them know what your all about within the first few seconds then they will move on.
And that all singing, all dancing design leads on to further problems. It makes the page slow to load and now with the majority of Internet connections being broadband people will not wait. They want information.
Search engine visibility can also suffer badly from web designer overkill. Google can't see the video and can't hear the music. And this is so often compounded by the expectation by the designer that the viewer, after watching the "show" will then click a link to move on to the sites actual content.
So what is Googlebot supposed to index on the home page? Coupled with the technophile web designers second love php/asp Google is often left with 2 or 3 lines of copyright text to index.

Flash and other multimedia activity has its place on the web but you wanted a web site to further your business or activity, not provide your web designer with the latest interactive buzz to show his friends. Keep it simple and you can still make it pretty.

Provide clear and obvious navigation on every page. How often have followed links down into the never ending depths with the only way out is multiple use of the back button? If your site has an extended hierarchy then perhaps a breadcrumb trail.
Provide easily accessible contact information on every page. Don't make your viewers search for your contact details.
Use an "easy on the eyes" contrasting background and font colours with an adequate text size. We all haven't got the eye-sight of a 19 year old.
Remember the design's first job is to impart information, not only to the viewer but also to the search engines. Make correct use of hierarchical headings, h1 h2 etc. and Google will reward you by noticing you.
Make full use of alt and title tags to further impart information to the robots (and for the one or two cavemen that still use text only browsers).
Use tools such as Poodle Predictor so you can see your site as the robots do.
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Poodle Predictor seems to be dead so another good "see your page as Google see's it" is at "A Simple Website".
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Provide copy, lots of it. Googlebot loves text and will happily index away in a text rich site.

And always remember that the reason you wanted a web site was to make contact with people so you could tell them about yourself or your business or your ideas, not to provide a high tech experimental platform for your web designer.
But if you don't want to break your designers heart by throwing away his (its normally males) "pièce de résistance" Flash intro then bury in the site where it can do you or your site no harm.

But of course the best way to have the web site that YOU want is to use a web designer who not only knows his stuff but is willing to give you the site you want.
Here at GJC Web Design we will provide you with your ideal website that will at the same time be user and search engine friendly and meet all the required standards.

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Ideal web design for search engine optimisation

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