The Website Accessibility Initiative (WAI) outlines the international guidelines on accessible web design.

The WAI is affiliated with the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and works with organisations around the world to increase the accessibility of the web through five primary areas of work: technology, guidelines, tools, education and outreach, and research and development. (more…)

Did you know when you link to a Hobo SEO post we have search engine friendly links back to your site if approved? Our comments are also search engine friendly you know (once you've commented on a few posts)! Do you need any more encouragement to get involved in the conversation ;)

The W3C was started in 1994 to lead the Web to its full potential by developing common protocols that promote its evolution and ensure its interoperability. (more…)

We’re a professional website design company in Scotland, UK. Here’s some tips to make websites!

PAS 78: Update 2008- Now free to download (keep a look out for BS 8878).

More recently the UK Government issued a consultation document on Delivering Inclusive Websites to improve things largely based on W3C recommendations – See What Is The W3C.

• Delivering inclusive websites (PDF) [PDF, 210KB]
• Delivering inclusive websites (Word) [MS Word, 353KB]
• Website accessibility guidance PAS78 (BSI publicly available specification)

There’s a lot to learn about accessible website design. Here we present some of the facts about web accessibility in the UK, a beginners guide for dummies. **** Note We have just moved this archive to this site – over the next couple of months we are checking the information provided (22 Jan 2008) ****** (more…)

A Free Content Management System When You Buy A Website Design!

Based in Scotland, Hobo is, first and foremost, a seo company, but we make websites. In fact, we’ve built websites for corporates, colleges, universities and charities – and a lot of small businesses. To be successful in Google, you need a website you can update easily, because Google loves fresh content. Understanding this, every site we design needs to be easy to edit.

That’s why, when you hire us to create your next website design, every one of our websites come with a free content management system (a CMS) installed. Yes, that’s right – you do not need to ‘buy it’. (more…)

Wordpress Website Design, Scotland by Hobo

Looking for a cost effective WP powered site? “WordPress is a state-of-the-art … personal publishing platform with a focus on aesthetics, web standards, and usability.” (more…)

Joomla is the perfect website choice for small businesses and SME in Scotland, and Hobo specialises in professional Joomla website design, hosting, installation, development and management. What is Joomla? Joomla is an open source content management system (a CMS) that you build a website “on” which then makes editing a website very simple indeed – with very little training anybody can learn Joomla in a matter of hours and days, and Joomla enables an administrator the options of changing text, images and website navigation & structure, all at the touch of a button. (more…)

SEO TIPS How I visualize seo (note I said visualise – this is not “how it works” as nobody knows “how it works”) and note, this is how I ensure my sales pages get enough Google Pagerank ‘heat’ or ‘Google-juice’ or ‘link equity’ to get into the primary index of Google and then rank. Please bear in mind, a page only needs Page Rank to get into this index – that’s all Google PR is good for. (more…)

SEO TIPS I’m chuffed to reveal the first Hobo SEO UK Interview and bring the world news of Jim’s new venture!

Look out SEOmoz PRO, here comes the amazing Internet Marketing Ninja’s!

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My link structures are usually very simple – no site map needed. Sometimes it’s easy to spot pages Google doesn’t like and decides not to index. What did I do to get a page back into the Google index after I spotted it was obviously banned / filtered / penalised? (more…)

SEO TIPS What is the SEO Magic Bullet? What is the big secret in SEO? How can you deliver it to achieve top number 1 rankings in Google, Yahoo and MSN?

Many people ask me this one and there’s a simple answer. (more…)