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Yorkshire has amassed an incredible level of creative talent over the last few years with new web design companies popping up all over the place. For those looking for expert advice and creative talent you no longer have to leave the beautiful countryside to find it, the big smoke doesn’t seem so alluring any more. Yorkshire boasts some of the best talent in the country and this post is dedicated to showcasing the best of the best.

The Floating Frog has searched high and low for the best web design companies in Yorkshire, with over 100 companies making the list and 30 making the cut. We were looking at companies that boasted a high level of creative flair in their portfolio’s, who practiced what they preached on their own website and who we felt could bring creative and technical innovation to every project. We present to you, in no particular order…

Yorkshire’s Got Talent!

9xb – Harrogate – Visit

9xb

MadeByPi – Leeds – Visit

Made by Pi

Cefar Marketing – Leeds – Visit

Cefar Marketing

Fuse8 – Leeds – Visit

Fuse8

Mixd – Harrogate – Visit

Mixd

Viaus – Hull – Visit

Viaus

1081 – Leeds – Visit

1081

Tea Bag – Leeds – Visit

Teabag Studios

Fabre – Hull – Visit

Fabre

Magnitude – Harrogate – Visit

Magnitude

Net Construct – Wetherby – Visit

Netconstruct

New Media Boutique – Leeds – Visit

New Media Boutique

Label Media – Leeds – Visit

Label Media

Bronco – Ripon – Visit

Bronco Internet

Extreme Creations – Harrogate – Visit

Extreme Creations

Edit Studios – Harrogate – Visit

Edit Studios

939 Design – Hull – Visit

939 Design

Creode – Leeds – Visit

creode

Bloom Media – Leeds – Visit

Bloom Media

Till Willy – Leeds – Visit

Tillwilly

Fish Tank Creative – Leeds – Visit

Fishtank Creative

Optical Juice – Leeds – Visit

Optical Juice

Enjoy Digital – Leeds – Visit

Enjoy Digital

Turn Design – Harrogate – Visit

turndesign

Welford Media – Leeds – Visit

Welford Media

Anoveta – Durham – Visit

Anoveta

Think Synergy – Harrogate – Visit

Think Synergy

Darren Atkinson – Hull – Visit

Darren Atkinson

Matt Cutts released a YouTube video talking about having multiple H1′s on a page, quoting “… it’s not so bad to have multiple H1′s”. Semantically best practice is to use just one H1 on any page so this video has caused confusion throughout the web industry.

Video of Matt Cutts talking about multiple H1′s

Questions questions questions

Are Google ignoring the W3C best practice techique?
Will your website rank better on the SERPS by having multiple H1′s?
Will it validate?
What’s more important, ranking on Google, accessibility or semantics?
What’s the hell is Matt Cutts talking about?

Recent comments on this Video

baselover84 – i believe that all of this is bullshit.
they analize pages with no hierarchy or structure with ease, and all of these questions (and answers) are semi-bullshit.
or at least irrelevant.

McSnookerman – How complicated are the Google algorithms really? They sound pretty advanced sometimes, it feels like a human is looking at the source code.

marksimons84 – For accessibility, I use H1 to head up main sections on a page, Screen readers can recognise that they are top headings of areas and users using them can jumpo between H1′s. H2, H3 etc.. obviously follow underneath these.

Webnauts – Google is preaching to optimize web sites with users in mind, and now they are telling that the use multiple h1 tags is ok? Now I do not understand the world anymore…

erinteare – Yeah, I would never overdo, we were just using the h1 to pull in logos in css and an h1 to deliver the actual header. Thanks for the info Matt!

Discuss!

ASCIIJeeves LogoAsciijeeves.com is a geeky mix of Ask Jeeves branding and the power of Google search. The logo and figure on the website is made up entirely of ASCII code and the active search system is a Google custom search, giving you the same results you’d expect from google.com itself.

After the fun we had with the ASCII portraits we thought we’d have a bit on fun with this project. The site took just a few hours to develop and was immensely fun to work on. We hope it gets popular, with a bit of DIGG, Stumbleupon love it will have a fighting chance.

Screen shot of ASCIIJeeves.com

ASCCIJeeves.com - Search engine for geeks

ASCIIJeeve Logo

Made up entirely of letters, as live web text on the website.

ASCII Jeeves logo

There you go, another random project by The Floating Frog

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