We are currently working very hard on promoting this site and the number of visitors is increasing day by day and we are receiving lots of positive feedback. Thanks for all of your emails.

So far we have optimized the site, submitted to the directories, written and re-written our content, posted in forums, created free templates, participated in link exchanges and more. Then, we had a bright idea and decided to look at other web design directories and email some suitable web designers directly. Whilst this was a good idea in practice the shortcomings of our plan became apparent when we started to click on the links to some of the web designers sites.

After clicking on the first 20 links on the first page of a well known web design directory we found only three that we felt would meet the criteria to be listed on Real Design Network. Almost every site was a mess of table based layout, horrible graphics and inaccessible coding. The majority of sites did not even work properly on the browser we were using (Mozilla Firefox). We are not looking for perfection to be listed here, only competent, standards compliant design. Are we really asking too much? It would appear so. Why these web design directories exist I don’t know. I thought the whole point of them was to list web designers that would be of some use to a client!

We know that there are plenty of quality web designers out there and we are going to continue the search and keep building up the directory bit by bit. We are also beginning a PPC advertising campaign shortly so hopefully we will have more success with that.