New Design : Little Gems Handmade Cards

The Little Gems Handmade Cards website has undergone a update and regeneration. The business has remodelled and now specialises in beautiful handmade cards for a wedding’s “Wedding Party”.

The website www.littlegems-cards.co.uk offers a full range of “Wedding Party” Thank you cards and “Will You Be” wedding party invitation cards. All cards can be personalised, which gives a wonderful keepsake for the people involved in the wedding.

The “Will You Be” range of cards is the perfect way to invite your Bridesmaids and Best Man for example to be part of the special day.

Wedding Party Thank You cards being a way to thank all involved in the wedding day and proceedings. With Cards for Bridesmaid, Flower Girls, Best Man, Ushers and Page Boys, plus Mother of Bride, Thank You Mum and Dad and many more options, in a variety of colours and personalised with names as required.

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A bit about us …….

Diversify : Portfolio Careers / Businesses

In the year 2010 it is not uncommon for people and businesses to diversify?

Adrian and Hazel Rayfield (us) have been doing this for many years and have a small portfolio of careers / businesses.

Web Design and Development : www.breakofday.co.uk
Web Graphics and Website Concept Design : www.webchicboutique.co.uk
Professional Painting and Decorating : www.propertydecorating.co.uk

Plus Blogging :
DIY and Decorating Tips and Tricks of the Trade Blog :
www.propertydecorating.co.uk/blog
DIY By Design : www.diybydesign.co.uk this blog of web design and our news and events.

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Content Is Key – Make A List!

Having a great looking website in itself might be nice but the content of your website is the key to both how search engines list your site, and how your visitors use your site – and ultimately use your services or buy your products.

Many elements make for good content, such as how the pages are set out, consistency of layout, your actual text copy, headings, images, alt tags, links, title tags, meta data, valid code etc etc….. it’s a long list!

So what about lists?

A list can look good on a page, it can attract the visitors eye and allows the use of good key words without having to make long sentences and paragraphs that visitors rarely read. Plus coded correctly search engine robots see the lists too.

If you are coding your list in HTML you can choose from an unordered list with a standard bullet (or use your css to style this with an image), an ordered list which has a number or a definition list which is a list which includes a description (like a list within a list).

Example 1 - An unordered list which has been styled using the css could look like this:

Our Services

• Web site Design and Development
• Graphic Design
• Internet Consultancy

Example 2 – An ordered list could look like this :

Top Best Sellers at Little Gems Handmade Cards

1. Valentines Day Card – Hearts
2. Mothers Day Card – Pansy
3. Art Deco Party Invitations

Simple – make your content stand out – Make a List!

See how the eye is drawn to the content – on a page with blocks and paragraphs of text this is what I would read – wouldn’t you?

Recently over at propertydecorating.co.uk I decided to code some calculators for working out how to calculate the number of wallpaper rolls required for a room, another calculator was to work out the number of rolls of wallpaper or lining paper needed for a ceiling and the final calculator was to work out the amount of paint required to paint a given area, such as a wall or a room.

On all three calculators I decided to supply a feet to metre converter as all three calculators are metric and some people measure in feet and inches, so supplying a quick and simple solution to convert imperial to metric units would make calculating far quicker and easier.

After some research on what figures I needed to know from the users I set about coding the forms. All three calculators are coded by me using PHP. Working out the formula is like Algebra, remember that? a+b=c etc.
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