Optimizing Web Sites
XML documents contain their own markup language. It is difficult to write software that understands all XML documents. That is the reason why we rely on standards when exchanging certain types of information via XML. This includes RSS for distributing, exchanging feeds with Web site related news and information, and for publishing XML-sitemaps that help search engines index Web sites
October 2008
Assuming that a Web page has a content that has an indexing potential with the major search engines then the single most important part of that Web page is the Title. This is not only the opinion of this Web site's webmaster, but also the opinion of many. There is wealth of knowledge available on the Web about this single Web page element.
October 2008
Findability is a fascinating word. It emphasizes the goal of every publicly accessible Web site. If a Web site has findability then it is likely to have Web users visiting it. Findability is a concept often associated to the search engines of the Web. If a Web user finds a Web site in search engines and has a good position among search engine results then it is findable and has findability, but that is only one piece of the puzzle.
September 2008
Fast loading Web pages and Web pages that are easy for other computers, including search engine spiders, to access and retrieve information from are more likely to enjoy success with search engine marketing.
September 2008
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
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
