What can I say?! I love the Internet. I’ve been ‘online’ for a really long time. In 1996, I started my journey as a webdesigner and I’ve been hooked ever since. It’s a great platform to create things for and I love teaching you how to get started. Get inspired and start building! Browse through my articles about HTML and SEO.
Since the mid 90s it has been agreed amongst all tech savvy internet people, that a robots.txt file on a server could specify access policies for robots. Creating a robots.txt file is very easy. In order to get started open a text editor (mac) or notepad (windows) to create a …
Elsewhere on my website, I’ve already explained a little bit about how search engines rank websites when showing sites on its SERP (search engine results page). All together, there are about 200 rules that either are known or are rumoured to play a part in the SERP ranking. Google PageRank …
When most people talk about Google ranking they’ll be referring to the search results pages, or the official term SERP. SERP stands for Search Engine Results Page. It’s the page you see after you’ve hit that Search button. Most websites wish to score really high on these pages and that’s …
They often say: “If you are on the second or third page of Google, you could just as well not exist”. Everybody wants to be on the top of the result pages, but that could be a challenge at times. The way a search engine ranks the websites changes constantly. …
Every website is of interest to a crawler. However, a website will be passed on to be indexed when there’s a readable, aka Friendly URL, and readable content. Only codes will be read, but will be considered to be not valuable. Text and images will. As soon as that’s been …
When you’ve put a lot of time and effort into your website, then you want to be found easily as well. Ofcourse, word to mouth will get you your first visitors, and please don’t be shy to use your social media to get that working for you, but a great presence …
When you get into designing and building web sites, you will quickly run into the term “SEO”. It stands for Search Engine Optimalisation. Even though the goal with it is to optimize a web site for search engines, currently it means to optimize the website for a better ranking in …
It took a little bit of effort, but I’m happy to announce that I’ve just posted a new HTML course online. The old course has always been a popular feature of the site and I hope the new HTML course will help a lot of people along in their attempts …
It’s been like a lifetime ago since wrote my first Step By Step HTML course and yes it has had a few revisions since. A few tweaks here and there were made to make sure you don’t get to far removed from what’s going on now. But now, there’s HTML5. …
Nothing has changed in the way that HTML files are built up, so the file still consists of two main sections: a head and a body. Add a <head>-element Change your file to look like this and save it. <!DOCTYPE html> <html> <head> <meta charset=“UTF-8”> <title>Whatever title of your file</title> …
