Steel Industry Portal Completes Successful Site Upgrade



March 28, 2005 -- Steelonthenet.com is pleased to announce the successful redesign, reconstruction and relaunch of its website. The news and information portal, originally launched in 2001, has just completed a major upgrade involving technical modernisation of site structure and site architecture, as well as significant improvements to general W3C conformance.

Commenting on the site's reconstruction, CEO Andrew M Kotas said "We have been aware of the need for this investment for some time. The upgrade will bring many benefits such as easier site navigation, a more modern appearance, faster data retrieval and friendlier web browsing. The modernisation also gives us much greater 3rd party advertising capacity, which is important from the commercial perspective."

Adds Martin Bailey, Technical Director of SheetMetalWorld.com and author of Marketing your Business "From the technical standpoint, it was important for Steelonthenet.com to take advantage of many of the functions and technical structures that we have utilised on Sheetmetalworld.com." Notes Bailey, who oversaw the entire design and implementation of the steel portal's relaunch "The upgrade means that the site is now substantially quicker to load and more 'search engine friendly' - resulting in higher rankings. It also make it much quicker to add or modify site content."

Continues CEO Kotas "All too often, companies build a website and then become a little complacent as technology and technical capability move on. If businesses are to stay in the game, they need to keep their ears to the ground - and to continually learn, adapt and move ahead. Whilst our own journey is by no means over, with Bailey's assistance our eyes are certainly more open now to the technical world around us, and our journey has at least begun."

The upgraded Steelonthenet.com information portal went online on 24th March 2005.





Steel Industry Portal Completes Successful Site Upgrade