Sometime over the next couple of months we’re going to be putting together a Web design NACHI.TV show. I’ll be using some material from a course I taught last year, but would like to cater as much as possible to specific topics most interesting to home inspectors.
So in preparation for the show, I’d love to define some of the topics you folks want me to cover, and (even better), line up some specific questions that I can answer.
I know that search engine optimization is high up there in the list of topics. What else? Also, what are specific questions you’d like answered?
When we went to the new message board this year I found some of your explanations regarding columns, column widths, colors, etc interesting. I see some HI websites that require excessive scrolling, they overlap off the right side, etc. So, a specific question might be "How does one effectively design a web page for easy viewing? Also, how about “How do ‘frames’ affect a website?”
For the most part that is correct, the majority of placement is taking place with title’s, page verbage content and so on. Less and less is being put on Meta Tags because they tend to be abused.
Most of the best linked pages have titles that list the major search terms or content that lists the major terms without it being repetative to a point it is considered spam listings.
With that said meta tags should still be used because their are some smaller spiders and none mainstream engines and directories that will still use them in indexing…but the larger ones do not any longer.
I think Inktomi/Yahoo is the only search engine that even looks at meta keywords and meta descriptions–and they only give 'em a tiny bit of weight. Meta tags are easily abused, so most search engines have just about dropped 'em from their search algorithms.
Well, clearly this is a problem. So your software is actually creating images of your verbiage and uploading that rather than just uploading the plaintext?
I assume its attempting to do some version of WYSIWYG (What you see …)
But I have been unsuccessful in just simply getting it to just load HTML and/or text.