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synomics

the brief

• To both stand out from and compete with our competitors
• To enhance the corporate identity
• Increase presence on the major search engines and directories
• To have an attractive and user-friendly web site

the design

• Completely redesigned to extend the corporate branding and achieve effective
  search engine indexing
• The redesigned site was aesthetically pleasing, easy to maintain, has strong
  usability and is quick to download
  
• The site was designed with concise HTML
  
• New graphics were created to accentuate the existing corporate branding
  
• CSS (cascading style sheets) separate content from style
  
• SSI (server side includes) for ease of maintenance and quicker download speed
  
• DHTML was used to create the navigation menus across the site and rollover
  layers on the home page to enable search engine indexing of this extra content
  
• Dreamweaver templates were also used to enable site wide HTML changes to
  be achieved quickly
  

search engine optimisation

• Search engine optimisation was a primary factor
• All aspects of search engine optimisation were implemented
  
  • Search engine friendly design (good body copy / concise HTML / keyword
    specific headings / external style sheets and JavaScript)
    
  • Title and meta tags used effectively
    
  • Site content targeted at search engines
    
  • Keywords researched and targeted
  • Site was submitted manually to top search engines
    
  • Significant improvements in search engine traffic were noted

visitor site statistics

• Visitor statistics package purchased and analysed regularly to improve aspects of
  the site and monitor visitor demographics (http://www.mycomputer.com)
  
• Monthly figures produced for product managers

atomz search facility

• New search engine facility researched and implemented (http://www.atomz.com)
  
• Improved user satisfaction
  
• Provided weekly stats on which words users search for
  
• Could make improvements to site from these
  
• Can also target external search engines from these results
  
• The template maintained the web site branding

n.b.: The url http://www.synomics.com/ now re-directs to http://www.accelrys.com/
because Accelrys bought Synomics in July 2001. The screen shots below illustrate the
design of the site.

synomics home page

synomics home page layer rollovers

synomics home page navigation flyouts

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