Website design is a fairly complex and difficult position, even for the professionals who are paid to do it every day. First time web designers have an even harder time understanding the concepts, but it can be done. Here are a few simple tips that cover the basics of website design. These tips are easy to understand and implement during the design process.
Duplicate content problem
A lot of website designers run into problems with duplicate text content on multiple web pages. Having duplicate content on your pages is bad for search engine optimization and can severely hurt your ratings. However, it is sometimes necessary, such as a tag line that is beneath your company’s logo. The logo is on every page and the tag line beneath the logo is on every page as well. This same tag line will appear to the search engines as duplicate content and that won’t be good for your overall search ranking. To get around this error in the system, put duplicate text into image files. If the text is part of an image instead, the search engines will not be able to understand it and there will be no penalty. This is the solution that most website designers use for logos and taglines.
Clean up your code
Keep your website code simple and in HTML. Alternative code, such as Java and CSS should all be externalized and organized. A search engine is only capable of reading HTML, not JavaScript or CSS. Other website code on your page only confuses the bots and may scare them away. The Google crawlers can even mistake alternative code for faulty HTML, which is not good for your website rankings. As was mentioned before, the loading speed of your website is very important. Additional code causes web pages to slow at times. The best way to include other code is simply call to it from your HTML code. Remember to keep everything as organized as possible.
Early call to CSS
Calling to your CSS sheet as early as possible is another great way to reduce the loading time for your web page. The CSS sheet tells the HTML code exactly how it will look, without the need to repeat the same code for multiple webpages. Making a call to the CSS as early as the guidelines will allow improves the loading time for any webpage. There are some guidelines, so be sure that you have read and understand HTML code well enough to know where you can or can’t place the call to CSS.
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