Blog archive for 2010

Jadwiga is a new member of the Perrysburg Area Chamber of Commerce Board. Congratulations, Jadwiga!

Accessible Web Studio, Ltd. will host a booth at the annual Rossford Business Fair. Please stop by and visit with us!

Rossford Business Association 2010 Business Fair

The 2010 RBA Business Fair was a great success!

We warmly invite you to stop by our booth at the Holland Springfield Chamber of Commerce 2010 Business Conxions Showcase that will be held Saturday, February 27, from 10am until 2pm at Springfield High School.

More information about this event at Holland Springfield Chamber of Commerce.

Having a website is not enough any more. The website must also have great content. Great content that is findable by search engines. Web standards, accessibility work together to help your website be findable by search engines and your human visitors will love it too!

Some of HTML tags used to create a website are more important in helping search engines to find your website. For example the <title> tag is one of the most important. There is a right way and a wrong way to use the <title> tag. Other tags that are also important are <strong>, <em>, and anchor tags.

Technologies such as Flash, JavaScript, audio, and video all create SEO headaches if not used properly.

What do search engines want to find in your website content? Content that is naturally keyword rich, content that is visible to search engine spiders, content that communicates clear information, content that loads quickly, content that isn't trying to trick the search engine. Web standards and accessibility compliance helps us achieve all that!

This information comes from the book "Building Findable Websites - Web Standards, SEO, and Beyond" by Aarron Walter

The last five years have gone by so quickly. It makes us stop and think of all that has happened during the last five years. Here is a brief recap of those first five years of Accessible Web Studio, Ltd.

January 2005

Company is formed. Operates under a different name - Simplex Web Solutions, Ltd. for about one year. We develop tools and processes to serve our customers well. We learn how to design and develop websites accessible to people with disabilities and compliant with standards of W3C.

January 2006

Simplex Web Solutions, Ltd. changes name and becomes Accessible Web Studio, Ltd. We re-design and re-deploy our new website, new look, new colors. Our first big project - The Way Library in Perrysburg. Library applies for a grant to get their website designed to be accessible to people with disabilities. Accessible Web Studio, Ltd. implements the website.

May 2006

Accessible Web Studio, Ltd. applies and is accepted to the Guild of Accessible Web Developers. This is a huge honor and achievement for us.

November 2006

Accessible Web Studio, Ltd. gets certified as a WBENC company - a women owned company.

April 2007

Accessible Web Studio, Ltd. applies for and is accepted as an Authorize.Net Preferred Reseller. We develop eCommerce websites trusting in Authorize.Net as our payment gateway. We employ the highest security protocol - AIM - for data exchange with the gateway.

May 2008

Time for a new look - Accessible Web Studio, Ltd. re-designs its website. Website, brochures, business cards, fliers, display booth - it all now makes marketing sense.

December 2009

Accessible Web Studio, Ltd. applies for and becomes a Better Business Bureau Accredited Business. We get a highest rating (A) possible for a business that has been in operation for only 5 years.

Accessible Web Studio will celebrate 5 years in business this month. Wow ~ the time does fly when you're having fun! We love what we do and we do it well.

At Accessible Web Studio we believe that foundation for an accessible website is laid with a website developed by adhering to the standards of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). There are many advantages to a standards compliant website design. With this foundation in place, we make an extra effort to create a website accessible to all.

Check out our portfolio.