Why valid HTML code is crucial to your web site’s search engine optimization efforts and subsequent high rankings: Many webmasters and newcomers to web page design overlook a crucial aspect of web site promotion: the validity of the HTML code. What is valid HTML code? Most web pages are written in HTML, and as for [...]

There is a lot of competition to get good spots in the search engines. Proper html syntax and a clean code will help toward better positoning. With website design mostly done with wysiwig editors now, there seems to be a lot of reliance on these tools without realising that they are far less than perfect. [...]

Once you’ve written a web page, you can upload it to an HTML validator. This site, run by the web’s standards body, will check that your site is valid (‘correct’) HTML, and give you some idea of how to fix it if it isn’t. This is an essential step in the development of any website [...]

How often have you seen a webpage called “no title” a quick Google search yields over 1 million. The Title tag is probably the most important meta tag for page optimization and over a million pages have just squandered it! Most people make a web page using a web page template and another common mistake [...]

Step 1 – Get used to looking at the code If you use Dreamweaver as i do, i recommend moving into split screen mode from the start. The more you are aware of what is happening in the code area, the easier adjustments will feel at the fine tuning stages. If you use Frontpage or [...]

Semantic HTML means using HTML tags for their implied meaning, rather than just using (meaningless) div and span tags for absolutely everything. Why would you want to do this? Depending on the tag, the content in the tag can be interpreted in a certain way. Here are some examples. Header tags If you use instead [...]