Frank West's Web development and Search Engine Optimisation blog

Search engine optimisation may well be the best investment you can make, a way to get people in the door and using your products and services.

Everyday I speak with people paying for or wanting to pay for SEO and they all make the same mistake.

Exeter website development offered from the centre of Exeter by Frank West, as I have just moved offices!

Having studied, worked and lived in Exeter for the past 7 years I am finally based in central Exeter making it even easier for you to visit, have a coffee and discuss your websites future.

I have just launched the new Frank West info website, a small collection of pages containing various information about myself and my life.

As the internet continues to expand more and more companies arise in the already competitive markets of website design and development. We often hear them compare themselves with key features such as standards compliancy, non-template designs and fast, fully functional websites, but what does this all mean?

As a website developer who takes great pride in his work I often find it disheartening to hear the words "I can get a website for free". The internet has become the most effective tool for the majority of businesses to advertise themselves and to gain new business, but people still cut corners to save a few pennies. In the long run this will do them more harm than good.

People will tell me such things as:
"A friend's child is developing my website for a school project."
"I can use a template site for free!"

2009 has turned into a big year for me (even though it is only April) and having had so much change in my life, and more importantly in my career over the past months, I have finally decided to enter the world of blogging. I have wanted to launch a new website for a while now but knew that if it wasn't going to be an active website it wouldn't be worth the time.