Semantically Correct HTML Benefits. Is there a real, measurable benefit to creating semantic HTML websites? Or are the web standards purists out on their own agenda? Well, speaking as one of those purist standaristas, I can tell you that the only agenda I have is to promote semantically correct HTML for the benefit of accessibility [...]
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Monetary standards is what I call the working partnership between Plain Old Semantic HTML, Website Accessibility, and generating monetary returns from a website. I’ve seen, from personal experience, what the use of valid, cutting edge XHTML and CSS together, with the separation of content from presentation, will do for a site’s SERPs (Search Engine Results [...]
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Without great and awesome web accessibility, the content of your website will be too hard to reach for some. And that means that your site’s as useful as a kite without any wind. Here are some weblog tips and tricks to improve the usability and accessibility of your website. Why is that important? Well, it’ll [...]
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Semantic HTML There is much talk today about Semantic HTML (Semantic HTML) and how if using Plain Old Semantic HTML (Plain Old Semantic HTML) does lead to higher rankings in a SE’s (Search Engine) SERPS (Search Engine Results Position). Most times it’s very true, that marketing a websites and using semantically correct markup will butt [...]
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I feel as though I need to touch on a marketing subject that seemingly doesn’t have much to do with POSH. But I feel that once you get your POSH groove on, your website should be a monetarily asset to you. And there is a real market for article submission as organic SEO technique. Let [...]
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In our first article, 7 Worst Web Design Mistakes – Part 1, we stopped at the first item in the list of the 7 worst design mistakes a web designer can make. I wanted to keep that #1 mistake isolated to it’s own article because it’s such an important part of the whole design process [...]
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So you want to create, or buy, a fully operating website. It has to perform flawlessly, accepting incoming customer announcements, or form submissions from people wanting to sign up on your Membership Web page, or even something as simple as accepting user comments. Believe it or not, those web 2.0 style operations are the easiest [...]
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It seems now more than ever, people are moving away from Black Hat SEO to Plain Old organic SEO. A simple example of organic SEO would be as follows: If you’re like me, you want people to read your blog, like what they read, bookmark your site and become a regular reader. They’ll link back [...]
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I was describing Semantic HTML to my wife with all the enthusiasm I have for web standards, and mid-speech I saw it. Right there in front of me. I saw “The Look”! What look you ask? Some of you Standardista’s already know what I’m talking about, but for those of you who have not crossed [...]
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Standards Based Article Submissions are a feature not many content designers really look at with much interest. We all are very busy in our lives, and writing a 500/600 page article on standards, and standards compliance, well…it just may seem too much work to do. But if we all took the time to pen (type) [...]
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Semantically Correct HTML Benefits