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Google 4 Games – technical update.

Marc de Ruijter — Sat, 28 Aug 2010 23:36:43 +0000

Updated our Google 4 Games search engine. It changed from PHP to Adobe Coldfusion so in the coming months expect some new features and improvements. Also changed webhost and changed from a linked custom search engine (xml files) to the Google AJAX search API. Turns out that Googles video-, news-, blo-g and image search do not work with Custom Search Engines, bummer.

The design hasn’t changed much except for some minor changes like using the new Google font API which seems to work better at bigger fontsizes. See the bold text with shadow at the bottom of the page, just above the footer.

A printscreen of the new Google for Games Cutom Search Engine

This search engine now uses a total of 5 API’s:

Google Custom Search API
Google Font API
Google Search AJAX API
Bit.ly API
Twitter API

Working on getting the load speed under 1.5 seconds average because Google is taking load times into account nowadays, so it seems. Page load times higher then 1.5 seconds are regarded as slow, using the Firefox plugin Page Speed which is actually a plugin for the famous Firebug plugin. Page speed gives dozends of optimization tips like using the browser chache, minifying CSS and minimizing DNS lookups. Current average load speed for google4games.com is 2.2 seconds (Google webmaster tools Labs feature), so i should be able to shave 0.7 seconds off. Ofcourse the Coldfusion hosting company (Crystaltech) and the various 3rd party sites used through the API”s are beyond my control.

Primapreventie: goed zichtbaar en goed vindbaar

yvonne — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 11:14:58 +0000

Website primapreventie

Vanuit het ontwerp van de eigenaar van de website van Primapreventie, hebben wij een professionele site gemaakt. Goed vindbaar en duidelijk weer te geven in alle browsers.

10 rules for website development

Marc de Ruijter — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 09:38:18 +0000

These 10 ‘rules’ for building a good website are adapted and translated form Xaviera Ringeling, a great contentgirl who knows how to write.

Keep your navigation clear, ovious and standard.
Keep the homepage unclouded.
Build trust through standard navigation elements.
Add a search-box.
Ditch the ‘splash-page’ or intro-page before your homepage.
Use Flash sparingly.
Always give visitors a ‘next step’ to go to, also after they filled in a form or placed an order.
Create good content.
Do use ALT-tags for images and do not automatically start music
Keep practical information short and concise.

Ofcourse there are alot more do’s and dont’s to website building, but these 10 rules go a long way towars building a user-friendly site.