Whether you're a beginner or an expert in HTML, there are many things that everyone should remember. Whether it's something simple like using lists properly to something a bit more complicated like learning every HTML element or separating content from separation, these are all some important best practices to remember for your next project.
Last week, I posted a tutorial on creating a website design with Gimp. Today, we will be converting that design to an HTML/CSS design.
I'm sure you've gotten junk mail via snail mail before. Especially the ones that are all crowded with unreadable advertisements. Maybe sometimes they were so cluttered that you actually went out of your way to not buy their product. The same applies to web design as it does in print design. Use of whitespace can mean the difference between a good-looking website, and HavenWorks.
A couple of weeks ago, I've been thinking about the importance of a website having perfectly validated XHTML and CSS. I was creating a website design, and I had noticed that some CSS3 properties caused a few errors in the validation.
There are some benefits of having valid markup, such as some SEO benefits, and the more professional look of a valid website. It's also nice seeing that green bar when you run your site through the validator.
I used to think that the w3c validator was an absolute rule to follow, but it's actually just a guideline to follow to help to improve your code.
By default Wordpress adds a nofollow attribute value to some links, such as in the comments section. This is used so that, generally in user-generated content, they can share the PageRank with the website that they want to share it with, and not share it with potential spammers. This is used to deter spammers from posting because they wouldn't get any "link love".