Well the recession may be over for the UK but it certainly seems over for Simon Green Motor Engineers! Is this a result of their new website?
The website has was launched on November 5th 2009, since then Simon has received more traffic and more calls though the website than ever before.
In January 2010 the website received 853 unique visitors, 537 of which came from highly relevant search terms on Google, this lead to 191 calls, this roughly equates to one in every 4 and a half visitors calling in – that is a staggering conversion rate!
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Skypanel will be launching a new website in the coming months that will showcase the CMS, publish available add-ons and serve as a support hub for customers.
I’m going to be working very hard on a dedicated support area that will be available to customers subscribed to Skypanel support. This section will feature tutorial videos that will demonstrate the basic functions of the CMS.
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Setting up contact forms on website can be a bit of a pain, especially if the client wants loads of custom fields, you not only have to set up the form in HTML its self but then write the fields into your sending script. With this script you won’t need to write your sendmail script over and over again. This script will simply loop through the array of posted variables to gather all of your fields, it will then format them nicely in HTML and send the data to an email addres!
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Captcha forms, having to type in obscure numbers and letters into a form to verify you’re a human is almost as annoying as receiving spam its self. I’ve spent some time thinking about an alternative to a captcha form that still detects if the form submission is spam without the need for users to enter an annoying code, here is the solution I’d like to share with you.
The theory is as follows; when a spam bot comes to your website, it does not see your website as regular users, nicely styled with CSS… it sees code, specifically forms, textareas and text inputs, then it fills them out and submits the form.
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