31 August 2017
Follow the Leader – Best Practice
Work smart, not hard. Do not do unnecessary work. Do not re-invent the wheel. These are mottos to live by. So, how do we apply them to a website? Well, if you’ve got an e-commerce site, look at Amazon. Look at what they’re doing and the way they are doing it. Look at other big, successful online retailers too. Think about what you can learn from them. If you’ve got a brochureware site (i.e. one whose sole purpose is to introduce your company and its products/services to potential customers), look at other companies’ websites. Take a peek at big blue-chip
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The Benefits of Validated XHTML & CSS Code
In my role as CommerceTuned UI lead, an essential part of the development process of our CSS/XHTML overhauls has been to validate all my CSS and XHTML code using the various W3C validation tools available. At first this was chiefly for debugging purposes – if the page looks strange then it could be as a result of mistakes in hand-coded XHTML or CSS – but the benefits of validation are by no means limited to aiding the website development process. Search engines love to crawl semantic mark-up Imagine search engine spider’s behaviour as like someone reading through the pages of a word document. A well-structured, validated xhtml page should be
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