Client Launch: Pants to Poverty
Posted by David Wiltshire on March, 10th 2008Pants to Poverty produces fair trade, organic and sweatshop-free pants that carry a message: man-made poverty is a scandal and together we can wipe it out. With recommendations from the Hub, Pants to Poverty asked Rolled to take the design produced by Ian Kerrigan and do what we do best: build solid, usable websites.
The Pants to Poverty Story is an interesting read, but in brief (from their Bad Pants Amnesty press release):
Established in 2005 by the youth group from Make Poverty History, this dynamic and exciting is a new type of campaigning social enterprise that makes luxurious yet inexpensive fairtrade, organic and sweatshop free underwear. Working directly with farmers and factory workers and only selling through ethical outlets (so no supermarkets etc!!!) Pants to Poverty is working with over 20 universities for FT fortnight and 40 shops and
Client launch: Eudemonic
Posted by David Wiltshire on March, 6th 2008Eudemonic sought out to refresh their web presence, asking Rolled to step in and make this happen. Collaborating with Richard Ardagh of Elephant’s Graveyard, we worked together to get their new look up and running as quickly and painlessly as possible.
Eudemonic had this to say about who they are and what they do:
Eudemonic is an agency for creative change, learning and communications. We work across organisational development, social & cultural projects, education and events. Our stand of artistic projects are about adding a bit of playful sparkle to everyday life. We are delighted that in less than a very short time we’re making an amazing difference to how organisations, communities and individuals grow.
However, their old site just didn’t do them justice:
Setting Up A Linking Structure
Posted by David Wiltshire on March, 3rd 2008When a search engine spider finds your website, you will want to make sure that you make it easy for them to find all of the additional pages that you have created. This is done by making sure that you have an effective linking structure.
It is a good idea to have a sitemap, which is a single page which has a link to every single page on your web design. You will want to make sure that a link to the sitemap is visible on every single page on your site. You don’t have to make the sitemap link very blatant, as it is not really intended for your human visitors, but
the search engines.
It is also highly recommended that you link your website together in a way that “makes sense”. This means that if you have