Entries Tagged 'HTML' ↓
July 21st, 2004 — HTML
I’d mentioned earlier how enclosing my recent entries lists in headers had caused Google’s search results to become increasingly irrelevant. Too many people were being brought to the wrong entry.
Not wanting to waste my <h6>s I moved them to my breadcrumbs (which appear only on individual entry archives). Caused Google to grab the text just below: my Amazon associate links. Speaking from the vantage of greed that might be desirable (unless at some future date Google should look on it as black hat SEO).
On some but not all archives I’m using them for my list of my theme or category archive pages. May prove an equally fruitless direction but it is interesting to see that Google really does take headers seriously.
May 30th, 2004 — HTML
A couple of months back I added more headers to my weblogs markup. For a long time all I had was <h1>, <h2> and <h3> for entry title, weblog name and titles within entries.
I shuffled some of that about, making the individual entry’s link to the theme archive a <h3>, making the sidebar section names <h4>. And I thought I’d each line item in the list recently commented on entries in<h6>.
Google noticed and took my word for it that I knew what I was doing. Tracking my search engine responses I saw that individual entry archives were drawing more and more inappropriate hits. The more popular the search phrase the more likely it having been marked as a headline in the sidebar would bring folks to a wholly irrelevant page.
If I’d really given the issue a five seconds proper thought I’d realize that what I’d done was wrong if only because the list of recently commented on entries changes every day. The visitor would arrive and even if been of that rare species willing to look or I had Google highlight working there’d be nothing relevant for them to see.
I’ve made my recently comments list merely a list again and used <h6> for my breadcrumbs at the bottom of the page.
May 5th, 2004 — HTML
Only read the online copy. I’m browsing through simple CMS packages.
XStandard Pro is a WYSIWYG editor that is typically integrated into browser- or Windows-based content management applications. Non-technical authors use the editor to manage rich content. Formatting is achieved through CSS that are referenced by styles, selected by business users from a drop-down menu. Business users can insert custom tags and author content in any language, including Chinese, Russian, etc. The editor’s features include support for layout and data tables, lists, hyperlinks, floats and drag-and-drop.
$179 is above my budget but there’s also a free version:
XStandard Lite has all the features of XStandard Pro (above) with the exception that access to Web Services is limited to XStandard servers.
XStandard: WYSIWYG XHTML 1.1 Editors
March 28th, 2004 — CSS: Design, HTML
One of my many deferred projects is redesigning my comments form. For now I have the excuse that I don’t want to make any substantial changes until the release of MovableType 3.0. But I’m accumulating links to the most useful discussions of form design I’ve found.
March 11th, 2004 — HTML
Bookmark dump of color picking tools. Mostly I’ve just stayed with SLUGS for the longest time. The last few were too formidable for me to benefit from. Maybe one day I’ll get brave enough to try having colorful weblogs.
SLUGS (Simple Little Utility for Generating Schemes) is a simple yet unique colour picker which can provide suggestions for colours which look nice together.
The author’s home page won’t come up. You can still download it from the HTML-Kit plugin page.
ColorCache is a professional color picker and palette management tool. Use ColorCache to select screen colors, create harmonious color schemes, and to manage and share palettes and color swatches.
ColorCache
Pick a color value format, input two valid CSS color values in the format you chose, and pick the number of midpoints you’d like to see. The palette will show the colors you input as well as the requested number of midpoint colors, and the values of those colors.
Eric Meyer’s Color Blender
Ever tried using a color picker on a high resolution monitor? It’s impossible. That’s why the this color picker has a magnifier attached. Control it from the keyboard and grab up to 16 colors at once.
Iconico’s Color Picker
I’ve always liked More Crayons’ color cube.
The Color Picker allows you to blend two colors or see all of the tints and shades, taken from the Netscape Color Cube, of one color.
Porter Glendinning’s Color Picker
The 6×6x6 Browser-safe Color Cube
The 216 Color Cube Background Maker
This colorpicker is based heavily upon the code from ColorMatch 5k. I’ve made it more compatible – it now works in Mozilla, and should also work in Opera, since I’m using a much better slider control.
ColorMatch Remix
This application generates color schemes of several types. Every scheme is based on one (base) color, which is supplemented with additional colors making together the best optical imperssion – using one of the authentic algorithms.
Color Scheme
The Man in Blue: Technicolor
The Munsell system is different because it is based on how people perceive colors. At its core is a set of data from perceptual studies (done in the late 1930’s) where people were asked to judge the differences in color pairs.
Munsell Palette
Google Directory: Web Design and Development > Authoring > Online Tools > Colors
October 19th, 2003 — CSS: Design, HTML
HTML Dog is all about how to make web pages in the best possible way with HTML and CSS, the most common technologies used in making them.
If you are a beginner, the step-by-step HTML Beginner’s Guide will get you started. If you are already a competent web maker, the HTML Advanced Guide and CSS Advanced Guide are the places to look for advanced tips, tricks and good practice techniques.
HTML Dog
October 19th, 2003 — HTML
Meta tags have never been a guaranteed way to gain a top ranking on crawler-based search engines. Today, the most valuable feature they offer the web site owner is the ability to control to some degree how their web pages are described by some search engines. They also offer the ability to prevent pages from being indexed at all. This page explores these and other meta tag-related features in more depth.
Danny Sullivan,Search Engine Watch: How To Use HTML Meta Tags
March 13th, 2003 — HTML
The charts below will allow you to copy and paste the appropriate character and numeric entities for your documents. To be sure a particular browser supports the entities (both named and numeric), simply open your browser to this pages and view the charts.
A Simple Character Entity Chart