Just recently Steve has been helping to improve the performance of a web site. More from the webster himself in a mo’, but first…at first, I thought, “Carp Fishing! – what’s that all about then?! My experience of fishing and fishermen being the ones who fished the canal on my commute route. They’d regularly whip they’re tiddlers out when I cycled past! (snigger). Anyway, Carp Fishing, and Carp Fishing holidays are really big in France. Turns out that some people are as passionate about Carp Fishing as Steve is about cycling – so bordering on an obsession really.

The website that Steve has been helping with is for a fishing lake in the Corrèze department near Coussac-Bonneval. It’s called L ‘Etang Rompu, and it’s 3 acres of Carp infested fishing heaven (if you’re a Carpist). Groups of fishermen or families hire the whole lake out for a week, or even two, so that they can fish all day and all night. Set in 65acres of forest with walks and mountain bike trials. Liam, the owner told us that the forest is home to wild boar, deer, kites, buzzards, owls, and like so much of the Corrèze, once you’re out in the countryside you could be a million miles away.

I thought we’d got some big Carp in our pond, but the Carp in Liam’s lake are ‘really’ big, with the biggest being 50lbs!!!

Now a few words from webster Steve, who”ll eplain what he’s been doing…..

“i’ve been re-sizing and optimising the images for best display at fastest down load, paring down the HTML removing redundant and deprecated tags so that the page jumps onto the screen. I’ve also been working with Liam on new copy for the site focusing on keywords to improve the site performance on search engine results. See, while the site looks pretty good visually I found that some great keywords were actually stored in javascript files and pulled in at each load of the page. Now while this makes for easy site maintenance it does nothing for SEO as search engines don’t index the content of javascript files. We’ve still got a way to go, but by the time we’ve finished we should have something that we can all be proud of.”

Very interesting Steve….zzzzzzzzzzz