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’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> …
It’s time to really start building the website. <body>-element Add the following bold printed section to your sample file: <!DOCTYPE html> <html> <head> <meta charset=“UTF-8”> <title>Whatever title of your file</title> </head> <body> </body> </html> Compared to the old HTML course, this is where you begin to really notice a difference in …
What’s a website without content, right?! Our next step, is to be adding some text to the sample file, which sounds easy enough, but you have many options available to you now. Adding text to your website Because you have various ways of adding content to your site now, I’ll start …
HTML5 also has some new elements that you can use for specific content or even specifying parts of your web site. They are intended for sectioning content within your <body>-element. This could come in handy when you are coding in another scripting language, like PHP . <address>-element The address element is …
Nothing has changed in comparison to the old HTML version to add images. You still use the <img>-element. Make sure you know the exact name of your photo file, including caps, spaces, dashes etc. The name in your HTML code should match exactly with the file name and location on …