Questions about optimising

This page is intended to answer some of the more common questions you may have on using jensys to optimise your web site. More specific information is available in the section dedicated to this subject - please use the link at the top of the page.

If you can't find an answer to your question, please contact us. We will do our best to help you.

What is 'optimising'?

Optimising is fine tuning your site making it easier for visitors, and search engines, to access it and find their way around.

We can offer you different levels of optimisation.

Cross browser compatibility
Download speed
Site navigation
Search engine ranking

Why should I optimise my site?

Many web design programs, and unfortunately many web designers, do not take into account the way different browsers will display a web page, or indeed take into account the fact that browsers do not all support the same features. That lovely whizz-bang effect you can see in with one browser may look terrible in another or, even worse, make the page unreadable or crash the user's computer.

Quite often they will also, at best, just pay lip-service to the requirements of the search engines. Search engines have a different viewpoint to people. If you want your site to appear near the top of the list when someone searches for your keywords you have to build in the things the search engines like to see in the order they like to see them which unfortunately, seems just too much like hard work for some.

Poor design can make your site very slow and difficult to navigate. Bad programming code can force the browser to wait until the whole page is loaded before it can be displayed, oversized or wrongly formatted images can take an excessive amount of time to download and if you don't allow your users to move easily through the site to the parts they are interested in, they'll leave.

What do you do?

If we are building the site for you we will incorporate as many search engine friendly features as we can. We take great care over the method of navigation so your visitors can find their way around quickly and easily and all images are compressed and reduced to their optimum size.

If we are optimising your existing site we will go through the source code by hand, correcting the errors and removing anything superfluous. We will again incorporate as many search engine friendly features as we can, optimise all the images and suggest ways the navigation can be improved.

Unfortunately all these do sometimes clash with the visual aspect of the site, in which case we will advise you of the effects and discuss the best way forward.

How much will it cost?

This depends entirely on the service(s) you require and how much work we need to put in to achieve the desired effect. At the end of the day though we are confident you will be pleased with both the results and the price.

Interested? Please see our optimising section for more details.