Roger Johansson has recently posted a fantastic article on the basics of search engine optimisation. His main points include writing good content, useful page titles, structured headings, friendly URLs, getting people to link to you and the importance of valid, semantic, lean and accessible markup. After reading it, the points do really seem like common sense, but it’s amazing how many sites just get it wrong. It’s definately well worth a read, if you haven’t already.
Category Archives: User Agents
Standards Policy
I have finally got around to publishing the final version of my standards policy today. The document is designed to explain my opinions about accessibility, graceful degredation and proprietary extensions; and to explain why this site fails to render correctly, yet remains accessible for IE users.
Additionally I’ve made use of a conditional comment in order to provide a message to IE users to explain why this site degrades so noticeably. If you don’t have IE, or just don’t feel like opening it up, the message, which appears at the top of the page, simply states:
Find out why this site degrades in Internet Explorer.
Devedge Sidebar: DTDs
I’ve just updated my copy of the Devedge Sidebar with the list HTML 4.01 DOCTYPEs and an HTML 4.01 Strict Template. It should be now available to everyone from the HTML 4.01 Quick Reference pages. If not, be sure to clear your cache and reload them all from the server. For those of you with your own local copy, download the updated sidebar.zip file.
It doesn’t include the XHTML DOCTYPEs, but I’m planning to do XHTML Quick references later on for XHTML 1.0, 1.1 and possibly 2.0. However, it does include a link to the W3C’s list of valid DTDs.