Now that 2006 is upon us, isn’t it time we all examined the latest web design and marketing technologies?

With the advancement of RSS and blogging technologies, it would seem that any web design company would be using web site hosting services that provided full support for open source scripts using PHP, but this is not true. As of right now, even in 2006, one of the biggest names in web hosting still does not support mod_rewrite. You would think that with the massive demand for dynamic search optimized websites that any company providing web hosting would clearly make this a choice. Guess again. It appears with the service hits a web server gets with a large account load performs a little slower, so to cut costs search engine friendly dynamic web pages are just not possible without a special workaround.

If your wondering what company I am refering to, it is netfirms. They are one of the busiest of the web hosting companies. But until they turn on mod_rewrite support for clients, you will never see a website hosted by them perform as well as any dynamic web pages on a server that indeed supports it.

Since we deal mainly with web design in vancouver we often deal with many clients who want custom web design service with dynamic ecommerce web pages. Taking them to netfirms would be a disaster as of january 2006.

So how do you clean up web pages with incredibly complex URI’s?

The answer is the engine that generates the pages must output clean links to begin with, and how do you do this? Choose your web applications carefully. A Good example is the category generator in x-cart the shopping cart system. The HTML category generator builds static website pages from a database into smarty templated pages directly into itemNamePage.html files, this is an excellent choice to start a business with ecommerce online.

Starting a ecommerce web site?

1. Have the design built by a SEO who can design, I mean really design attractive web pages!
2. Have a developer integrate this design into a shopping cart or other ecommerce solution.
3. Find a professional search engine placement company and have them run analytic tests upon the code, links, content, meta tags, and structure of your entire web site.
4. Find a link building service who will help you promote your sites presence in the global or niche market of your choice.
5. Look for a professional copywriting service who understands search engine optimization strategies. They will absolutely and definitely improve without any doubt your sales conversions. Have a look at their work first before you pay out a penny.
6. Select a Web hosting company that is not too big and has great customer support.
7. Select a hosting company that allows mod_rewrite so that the multitude of FREE web application scripts will function and have the means to clean up messy complex web page URL’s.
8. Choose a hosting company that has your IP Address geotargetted to your preferred market online. If you want improved listings in certain canadian market places on the web, this option will have subtle but meaningful influences on your web positions, in particular for more localized search engine result pages.
9. Select a Vancouver web design company that is also great with SEO and save yourself many headaches later on.

And on a final note on this article.

Please do not buy cheap. If your interested in success spend moderately and do your research. Quality web design work demands a great deal of time and skill to develop, and if your looking for something long term to survive and prosper you simply have to invest appropriately into it.

To your success and forget about luck, just choose wisely and stay informed. What was true last year, could be already gone today.