Jon Knapp » SEO

Square Records

jon — Sat, 07 Aug 2010 14:24:25 +0000

Square Records is a small, independent record and cd shop in the Highland Square area of Akron, Ohio. They are celebrating their 7th anniversary today and I am happy to unveil their first website!

The owners are really good friends of mine, and we have been working on this site for awhile. We designed all of the pages of the site to match the look of some of their favorite album covers. There is a lot of image replacement that occurs on the site to match the album design, while still allowing indexable content for search engines and screen readers.

I am really happy with how the site came out and its character helps to accentuate the business that Dave and Juniper have created over the past 7 years.

Island Club Villa Rentals

jon — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 15:11:56 +0000

This project was for the family for a friend of mine who has a few rental locations in Put-in-Bay. They already had a website, but it was not very professional looking and did not help to bring them any online business. Their old domain name was a “.info” which would get mistakenly typed as “.com” many times which took his customers to a competitor’s site.

I helped to organize the content that he currently had and integrate it into a WordPress installation for ease of maintenance by not so “tech-savy” users. I modified the original theme by adding a jQuery image preview of all of their properties as part of the site’s header. I also integrated the properties to be dynamically pulled together on the properties page and made use of post meta-data to determine what extra amenities each property had.

I used embedded Google map information for allowing site visitor’s to quickly map directions to Put-in-Bay from any source.

Finally, we decided on a new domain name to use to avoid confusion and settled on islandclubvillarentals.com (we also have islandclubvilla.com). I then setup his pages to use SEO keywords and descriptions, setup his sitemap.xml and robots.txt file, hooked his site into Google Analytics for stat tracking, and even setup a quick Google AdWords campaign to help get him on his feet with web traffic.

Blue Jazz Java

jon — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 19:05:38 +0000

A small website that I converted from a static Photoshop file to an HTML/CSS implementation. I designed the site to have all of the text fully searchable by search engines, however it was replaced by images once the site was loaded to present the look and feel the client wanted. The image replacement was done using CSS, including the rollover states for the links, which are also images.

iPhone Portfolio for Expand

jon — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 21:49:58 +0000

Using iui as for the mobile framework, I created a mobile web optimized site for a version of Expand’s portfolio.

Instead of having to learn how to create an application for displaying video files natively on the iPhone, I used a JavaScript/CSS model for creating an experience that mimics the iPhone’s controls.

The project link is to a backup of the site since we didn’t plan on keeping the mobile portfolio up to date in the long run.

Search Engine Optimization for Flash

jon — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 18:24:17 +0000

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