HTML5 Arrives For Christmas

ImaginedAtom Web Design of New Orleans has launched an entirely new website designed completely in HTML5. This website serves as a powerful example of the beauty, functionality, and speed that the newest iteration of HTML5 provides to web designers and developers across the globe.

HTML5 is the fifth and most recent release of the World Wide Web Consortium’s approved and adopted web standards language, and is seamlessly integrated with the styling of CSS3. Most of the major Internet browsers including Safari, Chrome, Firefox, Opera, and Internet Explorer 10+ have added support for HTML5 to their rendering engines, while earlier versions of IE and Firefox have overlooked the transition. To combat the lack of support, web designers and web developers will have to create alternate stylesheets or browser specific “if” conditions to render their content.

Among the latest features of HTML5 are native video and audio player support, drag and drop interface design elements,; tag supporting vector graphics, data storage within HTML, and JavaScript compatibility. Combined with powerful languages such as CSS3, jQuery, JavaScript, and AJAX, HTML5 accomplishes more website design goals for web designers than its predecessor, HTML4.1.

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ImaginedAtom is a New Orleans web design and development company specializing in web design, website development, HTML5 mobile applications, graphic design, and e-commerce development.

Selecting and Registering a Domain Name (URL)

First of all we need to review what a domain name is. Put simply, it’s the alphanumeric website address that your future visitors will use to go to your site. Here’s an example: http://www.imaginedatom.com. You may also see the term domain name referred to as a URL. They’re basically the same thing for the purposes of this article.

Now that we’ve got the jargon out of the way, it’s important for you to know how to register your domain name. Websites such as GoDaddy and Google offer easy domain registration, and the price of the domain name you select is dependent upon how popular those sites feel the name you’ve selected will become. So, “habaksksloz.com” will probably cost a lot less than “thebestcateringcompanyever.com” simply because the second URL contains a lot of popular keywords (keywords are “buzz words” — words that most people use when trying to search for a page on the Internet). The process of purchasing the domain name is relatively simple; if you’ve ever bought movie tickets online, registering the domain is an almost identical process.

“But how do I choose the right domain name?” That’s an excellent question. And the answer is an entirely personal one — only you can decide what domain name will be most relevant to your business. However this is the advice our article can provide to you:

• Choose a domain name that’s unique (stay away from URLs that are similar to another business’ because you want to stand out)
• Come up with a name that’s easy to remember (avoid lengthy “invented words” unless it’s actually the name of your business, and try to keep it 20 characters or less)
• For commercial websites, select “.com” as the suffix if it’s available and use “.org” for non-profits
• If “.com” isn’t available, don’t panic! You can choose from any other extension that you like, or tweak your domain name to find a .com that’s available

“How long should I register my domain name? The one year minimum or longer?” Go for the gold, baby! The price of a domain name is so minuscule in the scheme of starting an online business that you might as well register the name for a minimum of three years. This also eliminates the possibility that you’ll forget to renew your registration at the end of the first year and lose the use of your URL just as your website is becoming really popular.

If all of your questions are answered, that’s fantastic! And if not, you certainly aren’t alone in this. Consult with a professional and trusted web design and development company to field any final questions you may have.

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ImaginedAtom is a New Orleans web design and development company specializing in website design, mobile web development, HTML5 web and mobile applications, graphic design, and e-commerce development.

Why Go Mobile?

Back in 2007 or so there was really only one Internet experience: PC. Almost all traffic on the Internet originated from web browsers running from a laptop or desktop computer, and accessing any website from another type of device (think Motorola Q, Nokia “smartphones”, Palm Treo) was an impossibe experience. Web pages appeared broken, images were improperly scaled, navigation menus were positioned in the least accessible areas of the screen, and since there were no modern touch screens, navigating a single page by clicking an arrow key on your keyboard was an experience tantamount to self torture.

Fast forward five long years to 2012, and the Internet is a different experience. Today, mobile devices account for 20% of Internet traffic in the United States alone. And when we say mobile, we aren’t including tablet versions of browsers such as Chrome, Opera, and Firefox. The number is really quite staggering. Why this increase in traffic, though?

iPhone. Yes, Apple’s iconic smartphone from 2007 is nearly solely responsible for the spike in mobile traffic on the Internet. Thanks to iPhone and its full browsing experience in Safari, the Internet immediately opened up to mobile devices. And as always happens with a smash hit product, several iPhone clones began hitting the market (i.e. Android OS and the phones that run it) boasting a similar web browsing experience from the palm of its user’s hand.

quoteIn 2014, mobile browsing will overtake desktop browsing.

Soon after all of this, web designers and developers began deploying websites that were optimized for the smaller screen. We now see larger buttons, scaled images, mobile-optimized navigation menus, and custom widgets that all perform within a smaller touch interface.

And so finally on to our [incredibly long-winded] point. Why hire a web design company to develop a mobile website your business? Because in 2014, mobile browsing traffic will overtake desktop browsing.

Don’t leave your website’s viewers in the dust. A solid mobile website design is absolutely critical to staying relevant in today’s world of “on the go”. It’s not necessary to create a completely separate design for your mobile optimized site, either. It’s just important to hire a web design company with the knowhow to implement a design that is easily and quickly displayed on a mobile browser.

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ImaginedAtom is a New Orleans web design and development company specializing in website design, mobile web development, HTML5 web and mobile applications, graphic design, and e-commerce development.

Why We Share Websites and Webpages

Social networking is everywhere these days. You’ve undoubtedly seen social icons for sharing web pages, content, articles, and images to Facebook, Google+, Twitter, and even Pinterest. But why do we integrate them into nearly every website design on the Web?

The answer to this question is a bit tricky but can easily be summed up with one word: visibility.

Every website administrator wants their content to be seen in Google search results and social sharing is an excellent tool for pushing a web page to the top of search results. Google’s search ranking algorithm “rates” pages based on the number of links to each page, and the quality of the sites linking to them. It also factors in popularity of a particular link. So if a certain New Orleans web design company like, uh, ImaginedAtom wants their web design page to rank higher in Google search results, it has to drive a lot of traffic to that page, and also put that link on as many pages as possible all across the Internet.

quote…make sure that your web designer integrates page sharing to as many social sites as possible.

Social networking is just the solution for this goal. Place a set of share buttons (for even the most unpopular of sites) across the page needing visibility, and BAM! Instant opportunity to create viral buzz over the page on Facebook, G+, Pinterest, Twitter, and LinkedIn. The more people that share the page, the more links to the page appear on other websites, and Google ranks the page as more important, placing the shared page higher in search results.

So the last question we’re left with is what sites do we share to? The answer is all of them. So when seeking out a web design company in New Orleans or anywhere to design and develop your next website, make sure that your web designer integrates page sharing to as many social sites as possible.

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ImaginedAtom is a New Orleans web design and development company specializing in website design, mobile web development, HTML5 web and mobile applications, graphic design, and e-commerce development.

Why Your Website Designer Links To You

Every now and again we here at ImaginedAtom will receive the same question from many different clients: “Why is a link to your website at the bottom of mine?” The answer to this isn’t really a simple one, but one that should be answered for all of the wonderers out there, looking around the interwebs, wondering the same thing.

First, it is not advertising. Sure, there may be a few people who love the websites we’ve designed and happen to click on our link at the bottom of a client’s website, but the numbers are few and don’t result in many new leads for web designers. The real reason that link is there is to help your website as well as ours in search engine results. That’s it. The end. Explanation provided.

But it’s not so easy as that. Google, Bing, and Yahoo! use complex algorithms, or equations, to calculate how to rank a website in their search results. If you were to search for “New Orleans Web Design” on Google, the results will change almost monthly. The reason for this is because search engines are always recalculating how a particular website ranks (or scores) using their algorithm. The methodology behind this in Google’s case is called “Page Rank”. And websites are ranked based upon a number of factors such as quality of the content, the frequency the site is updated, number of visitors to the site, overall readability and compliance to Web standards, and most importantly by the number of links to the site.

quoteSo that little text link at the bottom of your site helps your online reputation tremendously, and will actually pull your website higher in search results.

So, in order for our design agency to rank higher on Google, we would need to have a large number of inbound links from other websites to push our rankings higher. And the more links that come our way, the more trusted we are in the eyes of the search engine. This is how our clients start to benefit.

If ImaginedAtom has a high number of links to our website and is ranked accordingly by the major search engines, every page and site that we link to is also looked upon more favorably. (If this sounds a bit like a pyramid scheme, you aren’t alone in this. Blame Google and Bing, not us!) So that little text link at the bottom of your site helps your online reputation tremendously, and will actually pull your website higher in search results.

That in effect, is really all there is to it. A greater number of links to a particular website gives that site more online credibility, and in return all of the sites that link to it are also given a more favorable search ranking.

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ImaginedAtom, LLC is a New Orleans website design company specializing in HTML5 web development, custom graphics, print media design, and WordPress development.

The All-New ImaginedAtom.com

ImaginedAtom.com has been redesigned from the ground up with a beautiful, dynamic, and intuitive new design. Our new website design for our company is more informative, easier to navigate, and packed full of features that enhance and reward the user’s experience.

Some of the greatest new features of our newly redesigned site include:

• Responsive theme that easily adapts to display on mobile phones and tablets
• Dynamic home page web design portfolio that showcases all of our work in beautiful, expanding tiles
• Comprehensive web design FAQ section covering all the topics we’re asked about the most
• Detailed services descriptions detailing exactly what we offer to our clients
• Video demos of the websites and apps we’ve designed and developed
• Integrated company news and website design blog for the online enthusiast
• Gorgeous minimalist display highlighting the information our visitors want, and eliminating what they don’t

To submit feedback relating to the new website’s look, feel, or content, please contact us with any input.

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ImaginedAtom is a full service New Orleans web design and development company specializing in HTML5 website design, mobile app design and development, custom graphics, blog integration and design, and print media services.