August 2008 Archives
The headings (H1...H6) in its original and default form range from very large to smaller. In the early days of the Web, it was terrifying to visit a Web page that had H1 heading. It was almost as terrifying as seeing the blink that followed the first version of Java Script, but that is a different story.
September 2008
The header tag (H1...H6) is a tag of many disguises. It has by default certain size, but it does not always appear in that form. It has a special role in the structure of HTML Web pages, but Web designers do not always apply the header tag to that role. This may sound confusing, but so are many things in HTML.
September 2008
We have previously discussed Web page speed optimization and how optimizing the HTML code and especially images can improve Web page loading time. The reason is very straightforward. According to our study, images are more than threefold the size of HTML markup source code.
September 2008
Making a Web page load as fast as possible in the user's browser window should be on top of every webmaster's priority list. It does not matter whether the hosting environment is a dedicated server or a shared account. Everyone can optimize Web pages for speed. The results are often rewarding.
September 2008
HTML tags to display your data and content in a list are many. Some of them are unordered list UL, ordered list OL, table and DIV. The truth is the DIV tag makes it possible to do any type of list and data tables, but the more specific tags can make your life easier.
September 2008
You can use the ALT attribute in many different ways, for your Web site's good or bad. How long should ALT attributes be? What should the ALT attribute describe? Should you apply the ALT attribute to all images or only few? These are perhaps the most common considerations a webmaster has regarding the ALT attribute.
September 2008
Oftentimes the ALT attribute can help in enhancing Web site's findability. It can also emphasize important keywords and phrases. In case you did not know the ALT HTML tag is an attribute associated with the IMG tag, which itself is a tag that marks up images on Web pages.
September 2008
The RSS and Atom feeds are an important part of marketing and advertising a Web site. The XML/RSS interchange data format is not very readable for humans, is frequently criticized, and many choose other formats such as Json when exchanging data with Ajax powered Web sites.
September 2008
The semantic Web is a buzzword used more frequently than before. How to make a Web page marked up semantically is beyond the scope of this humble piece of text. Semantically marking up HTML page is possible today, it has a learning curve, but webmasters heading into the future may eventually have to consider the concept and get a hang of it.
August 2008
Content on Web pages is usually text, video, audio or images. Text is the only type of content that search engines understand and know how to handle. Search engines do not understand the other types unless described with text. Therefore, text is primarily the content a webmaster should think about search-engine- ranking-and-spider wise.
September 2008
How many links should a Web page have? Where is the best location within a Web page to place navigational links, at top, at bottom or somewhere in between? Common sense tells us that it should not matter where the navigational links are located indexing wise. It is more important to ensure links are alive, crawl able and are of a standard format the search engines can understand.
September 2008
