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Web Semantics, and why we need them!

There has been updates to the web standards authority site. It’s also moving on up in Google’s SERPs. All in all, great info and SEO.
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It seems to keep coming up in conversations I have - that the WordPress CMS is probably the best platform for a site owner to run “out of the box”. And with that, there are tons of (X)HTML correct and valid, Semantic WordPress Themes available. Heck, I will even create one for [...]

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During the end of last year (2007), and up to now (August 15th, 2008), I have gone from switching my web host company close to four times - yes, I did say four times! And I say “close” because just recently I switched back to the one I am on now. I [...]

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Semantic Advertising (advertising based around the meaning of text). Now that’s a topic worthy of discussion, especially when one considers an alternative to Google is tangible.
According to CEO Amiad Solomon,
(Semantic Advertising (advertising based around the meaning of text))…will help make advertising more relevant to viewers.
What do you think?
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I’ve read some disparaging remarks that some marketers (pretty much all of them…) have said in regards to semantics. Specifically statements to the effect that, “I tried using valid web standards markup, but they didn’t pay off in SERPs, so I stopped using them.”
Too bad for the world. These marketers will continue [...]

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For many designers, learning how to hand code (X)HTML is too much effort, especially when you can use Photoshop/Dreamweaver to do it for you.
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Do you remember when you first checked out the source code for a web site in the 1990’s? My experience was with the Netscape browser, and the Netscape proprietary blink tag. Let me tell you that from that time on, I would print out the HTML markup and study it. Even then, [...]

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If you are a web designer like me, you find that you spend allot of your time researching web sites that are niched in web design. I actually seek out sites that not only are service oriented companies, but ones that also have a web design blog for the latest in design information and news [...]

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I have been under the gun on several occasions that required me to outsource certain aspects of a clients web design project. Now, I am assuming that you, my readers, are geeks that have at one time or another designed semantically correct websites. But have you ever been so pressed for time that you needed [...]

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