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Page layout. Matt Brendzel GA Boston Programs Producer. William Neely CEO, Piecewise.com . seo. SEO (or how to succumb to the master’s wishes). Use head tags appropriately H1 most important H6 least important Use brief descriptive filenames Apple.png not image1.png Use the alt tag
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Page layout Matt Brendzel GA Boston Programs Producer William Neely CEO, Piecewise.com
seo SEO (or how to succumb to the master’s wishes) Use head tags appropriately • H1 most important • H6 least important Use brief descriptive filenames • Apple.png not image1.png Use the alt tag • HTML validation Create accurate page titles • Show up in search results Improve URL structure • Lowercase, no spaces,- not _, descriptive
seo Continued Mostly text for navigation • Avoid images, Flash, JS • Image replacement technique Create fresh, new content! Other things • Submit pages and sitemaps
Code challenge Art is hard (debugging competition!) Form 2 person teams Give your team a name Five points to the winner 15 minutes to find as many possible SEO improvements, deprecated elements, and HTML errors
Seo Image replacement Use CSS background image • Hide the text Current method • Text-indent:100%, overflow:hidden,white-space:nowrap
Seo When to use CSS Image links • Bad SEO • No text, no info Headers for logo • Text for SEO Image part of a theme Replacement of text w/image Sprites Print page w/o image
Seo When to use html tag Image part of content Printing image http://iam.beyonce.com/
Seo Ecard.ly Open Ecard.Ly Break down into pieces Get this shiznit on the roadster
Seo Box model hack Additive box • Like Brook & Lynn Removes need for calculations
CSS Home work reading Read the article "All About Floats", Css Trickshttp://css-tricks.com/all-about-floats/ Read the article "CSS Float Theory You Should Know", Smashing Magazine (optional)http://coding.smashingmagazine.com/2007/05/01/css-float-theory-things-you-should-know Students will catchup on all the concepts and class work up from classes #01-#04.