Coding is one such area of specialization where even big daddies commit silly mistakes and it is the website that gets punishment for that. Careless coding not only makes a website unresponsive at times, but it can also make a website virtually invisible in the online industry. Therefore, if you are running a website, you need to check and recheck all the codes to increase the visibility of your website and to make it more search engine friendly. Here we are going to share some common HTML and CSS coding errors that can have detrimental effects on your website’s overall online presence.
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Ok, so there are a lot of articles out there on HTML5, especially since Google Wave arrived (because it’s the first major app to run on the language), but all the information that you need to know in order to start using it now is either too complicated, or spread out over various websites / articles / tutorials. Hopefully in this article we’ll be able to amalgamate and condense a lot of this information so that anyone with basic HTML knowledge can start using it.
Before I start I’d just like to say a big thank you to the Speak the Web guys who put a series of talks on in the north of England over the last two weeks. The gigs each had a speaker from Opera (amongst others) who enlightened many of us to the true potential of HTML5, and why we should start using it sooner rather than later.
You often hear developers talk about the importance of semantics, but do you know what “semantic” means? I’ve noticed that it tends to be an arbitrary word that’s thrown around the web by people trying to sound smart (I’m guilty of that too). You often hear that semantics are good for SEO and essential for proper and clean code, but what exactly is semantic code?
Semantics literally means description or meaning. Writing semantic code means writing code that’s self-describing, so that little comments are needed. To have semantic code, you need to properly name your IDs, classes, images and other items as descriptive as possible. (For example: “left sidebar”). Semantics also means that you use the code properly, i.e. styles go in CSS and not in HTML.
A website’s design gets all the glory. When someone visits a site, you’ll hear them talk about how awesome the design is–but, do you ever hear someone talk about how awesome the code is? Never!
Regular people can’t see code, nor do they care to see it or what it looks like. It’s precisely this reason that there’s so much ugly code in the web world today. People don’t see it so developers don’t believe that clean code is important, but it is.
Search engine optimization, or SEO, is a very complicated science. While no one knows exactly how Google ranks websites, we do have a lot of proven techniques.
Good SEO depends on several factors in your website, but when you usually think of SEO, you probably think of dealing with content and inward links. But did you know that there are several ways to improve your traffic and SEO by changing your code? Increasing traffic and rankings in code depends on three factors.
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