Creare Group: Web Design & SEO Video Blog

Nick & James take a further look into HTML5 and validating the webpages.

Nick and James look into the Google Analytics eCommerce setting within the Magento platform

Nick and James form Creare demonstrate the basics of implementing backgrounds in CSS for you website. The tutorial covers standard colour, tiling a graphic, applying gradiants and fixed graphic backgrounds. Check out the supporting blog post at http://www.crearedesign.co.uk/blog/videos/css-backgrounds.html

In this weeks SEO Video blog Nick and James look at how to correctly use 301 redirects for moving URL or specific pages.

James from Creare talks demonstrates how to use Photoshop's Save For Web feature. This video tutorial is part of our series on optimising your web design file sizes. Check out the supporting blog post: http://www.crearedesign.co.uk/blog/videos/save-for-web-photoshop.html

Pete Campbell from the Creare Group discusses the various methods on how to optimise your websites Twitter profile for better SEO (Search Engine Optimisation). How to Add Twitter on your Website: http://www.crearedesign.co.uk/blog/web-designers/add-twitter-widget-website.html Creare Communications Blog Post: http://www.crearecommunications.co.uk/news/seo/optimise-websites-twitter-seo-video.html

Nick and James from Creare talk about the importance of optimising your website's file sizes and discuss some of the best methods and tips for doing this. Check out the supporting blog post at http://www.crearedesign.co.uk/blog/videos/optimising-file-sizes.html

Nick and James from the Creare Group to discuss the best method to embed flash for search engine optimisation purposes, you can see the full version at http://www.crearecommunications.co.uk/news/

Nick and Michael from the Creare Group discuss the advantages of having a lean CSS file. They also go on to show some simple optimisation techniques followed a song to remember the process.

Nick and Amelia from the Creare Group discuss the benefits that accessibility considerations can have for both your users and search engines.

Nick and Amelia from the Creare Group look at various ways to stop search engine optimisation effecting your web pages and usability.

Nick and James from the Creare Group show how to use photoshop actions and how they can benefit you for batch processing images for web design.

Nick and James discuss some of the popular ways of link building for themselves and their clients sites. They run basic techniques such as directory submission through to social media.

The Creare Group introduce 'The SEO Song' starring Charlie And The Martyrs! It aims to promote the problems associated with black hat SEOs, and to raise awareness of the need for small to medium sized businesses to protect themselves against illegitimate optimisation techniques. Too many companies are promising to achieve top results in the search engines when they just cannot achieve these positions. The video seeks to place SEO at the forefront of attention in a fun and accessible way! Download it on MP3/MP4 for free here: http://www.crearedesign.co.uk/blog/videos/seo-song.html Enjoy!!

Nick and James from Creare demonstrate live how to add or claim your business listing on Google Maps. This tutorial ties in directly with our previous video blog on integrating Google Maps onto your website. You can read our supporting blog here: http://www.crearedesign.co.uk/blog/videos/getting-on-google-maps.html

Nick and James from Creare talk about integrating Google Maps onto your webpage and also look at Google's new Directions Gadget. Check out the supporting blog post at: http://www.crearedesign.co.uk/blog/videos/integrating-google-maps.html

Nick and James from the Creare Group take a look at Google Caffeine and what effect it has on Creares listing and potentially their clients.

Jenny, Danii and Sarah from Creare conclude their how to write a PR series with advice on where to distribute your press release.

Jenny, Danii and Sarah from the content writing department at Creare, explain the process of writing and distributing a successful PR. Part 2/3.

Jenny, Danii and Sarah from the content writing department at Creare, explain the process of writing and distributing a successful PR. Part 1/3.

Web Design Tutorial - Nick and James from Creare demonstrate a quick and professional method for web designers of producing prototype web pages for clients. Part one starts in Photoshop with Part 2 & 3 covering Fireworks and Dreamweaver. Find the supporting blog post at: http://www.crearedesign.co.uk/blog/videos/web-design-prototyping-p3.html

Web Design Tutorial - Nick and James from Creare demonstrate a quick and professional method for web designers of producing prototype web pages for clients. Part one starts in Photoshop with Part 2 & 3 covering Fireworks and Dreamweaver. Find the supporting blog post at: http://www.crearedesign.co.uk/blog/videos/web-design-prototyping-p2.html

Web Design Tutorial - Nick and James from Creare demonstrate a quick and professional method for web designers of producing prototype web pages for clients. Part one starts in Photoshop with Part 2 & 3 covering Fireworks and Dreamweaver. Find the supporting blog post at: http://www.crearedesign.co.uk/blog/videos/web-design-prototyping-p1.html

Nick and James from the Creare group explain the benefits of canonicalisation and how to implement 3 ways of telling Google which is you preferred or canonical content.

Web design tutorial that explains how to prioritise the content of your web page with CSS. Nick and James from Creare demonstrate how you can re-organise your page's HTML content to help improve both usability and web optimisation. Download the supporting files at: http://www.crearedesign.co.uk/blog/videos/website-layout-crawl-order.html

Nick and James from Creare explain the issues surrounding duplicate content and search engine optimisation (SEO). More information regarding search engine optimization can be found on http://www.crearecommunications.co.uk/

Creare's Nick and James discuss 10 of their top tips for usability within web design to help with your website's accessability, SEO, bounce and conversion rate.

Video tutorial on how to use PHP to create a random message on your website's design. Simple, free php script that doesn't require a database. Download the supporting Zip file at: http://www.crearedesign.co.uk/blog/website-design/php-random-message-script.html

With the merger of Yahoo and Microsoft search facility, Nick and James from Creare take a look at the new Bing search engine in comparison with Google.

Nick and James discuss the best methods for aggregating a news or RSS feed onto your homepage or sub pages of your site. This is designed for both usability and Search Engine Optimisation.

James from Creare explains how to setup your RSS Feed in Feedburner and the advantages of using the service.

Nick and James from Creare explain the advantages of using a Mod Re-write function on a PHP Apache server to create SEO (Search Engine Optimisation) URLs.

We take a look at CSS 3's upcoming web design features and look at Rounded Corners (border-radius) which have already started to be supported in Firefox, Google Chrome & Safari. Supporting ZIP file available at http://www.crearedesign.co.uk/blog/videos/css3-rounded-corners.html

Nick and James from the Creare Group explain the advantages of sitemaps and the easiest methods of creating XML and HTML sitemaps online.

Nick and James from Creare demonstrate a basic Wordpress 2.8 installation and highlight some important features to take advantage of when installing. This website design tutorial is intended for people who are new to Wordpress.

Nick and James from the Creare Group explain the basics of on site optimisation following on from their previous SEO video blog on keyword selection.

James from Creare demonstrates on is computer how to design and implement a FAVICON onto your website using Photoshop and HTML. The demonstration is done on a Mac with CS4.

Nick and James explain the methods of choosing appropriate keywords as well as looking at some of the tools used at the Creare group.

Nick and James from Creare explain how to utilise headers and footers for good web design and SEO. They also look at how they might be implemented in HTML 5.

Nick and James from the Creare Group explain the new tags of HTML 5 and the discontinued tags from HTML 4.