Web Standards
If you already have a website has it been done to the web standards and guidelines (HTML, CSS, XHTML or XML, 508)? Is it viewable, no make that usable, across all of the different browsers?
Web sites that are done according to the web standards and guidelines load quickly. Well they should load quickly. However, if the page involves several large graphics or there are server issues that can affect load time.
Do you know how well is your website coded ? Do you know what it looks like across …
Outdated: Yes, it is!
“Best viewed using…”
Well Internet Explorer is not the only browser. It currently does have a larger market share, but if a web designer cannot design for other browsers (see list below) then they aren’t very good at all or lazy or worst of all uninformed.
Browsers:
- Firefox (PC and Mac)
- Mozilla
- Netscape
- Opera
- Safari (Mac)
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What’s In : What’s Out
What’s Out
Font tags, complicated nested tables, marquees, blinky things.
Okay, what is it with website designers still using <font></font> tags???
A friend that is also a web designer/developer is in the process of updating a website. On one page alone there were over 626 font tags. Aaaccckkk!
Using any uncessary code aka bloated code causes search engine spiders to slow down while roaming a site, adds weight to the page, and let’s not talk about how long it would take just to update all of them.
What’s In
CSS!!! …
Marketing Tip #1: Email Address
One of the simplest of things is to use a business email address versus an Earthlink or AOL or other ISP address. In addition, it just plain appears more professional.
Quite often when an interview takes place a contact email address will be in the news article but not the URL of the business. So get and use an email address that has your domain name in it.
And don’t tell me or anyone else that it’s too difficult or time consuming to check it. I know that you can …
