HTML (HyperText Markup Language) is the predominant markup language used for creating web pages. In modern web pages, HTML is used to markup the contents of the website, while CSS and Javascript are used to define the styles and behaviors respectively.
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Alt attributes for dynamically generated images
I have an image gallery for a commerce website which consists of several small thumbnail images and one large image. All of the images are photographs of the same product.
What would be the most ...
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Which method is the best to specify the language of a page?
There seems to be two ways to specify the language of a page:
<meta http-equiv="Content-Language" content="en-us">
and
<html lang="en-us">
Which one is the preferred way? I know I ...
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Uses of LINK tag
The <link> tag appears to have many uses aside from stylesheets. For example the W3 suggest using it for previous/next/index pages.
I know that Opera also has a Navigation toolbar that will ...
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Is title tag position relevant in html pages?
I'd like know if having the title tag positioned at the end of <head> tag or in any other position, always inside the <head></head>, can lead to some kind of problem, I'm not talking ...
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Are HTML sitemaps important from a SEO perspective?
Are HTML sitemaps (like this one http://www.google.com/sitemap.html) important from a SEO perspective, or is uploading an XML to Google enough?
Beside from visualizing a data structure for the user, ...
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STRONG and EM tags inside H1 and H2 and SEO on database-driven website
I am trying to tweak the SEO of my Website, I have read a 400 SEO Bible PDF document that I came across. An aspect of my website that was not included in my SEO optimisation.
The STRONG and EM HTML ...
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What can be done through XFrames, as compared to IFrame in html?
What can be done through XFrames, as compared to iframe in html?
Is there any new feature other than making it easier to bookmark in XFrame as compared to IFrame?
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Linux HTML/XML W3C Validation Utilities
What programs can I use to validate HTML/XML markup?
Basically, I want a local, command-line based, version of W3C HTML validation service (like lint) that I can use for detecting errors.
Update
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SEO wikipedia content and blockquote - duplicate content
I have a large website that aggregates content both from the websites and Wikipedia.
Even thought it's someone else content, the way it's combined is unique ad provides a valuable user experience ...
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Convert Microsoft Word documents (.doc/x) into HTML files
Does anybody knows of a good application to get it done quickly and efficiently ?
I bought Word Cleaner but the results are merely sufficient and I need go over all the generated html files to clean ...
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In Robots.txt, how do I disallow all pages except for the index page?
I want google to index my index page, but do not index any other pages.
User-agent: *
Disallow: /
So far I have this. However...when I do this, Google does not index my index page. When I search ...
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When opening a local HTML file, how do I ensure I get the content not a cached version?
I have an issue where the newest content of a local HTML file is sometimes not displayed. Instead, the browser shows a cached version. The workaround is to press <Ctrl>+<F5> but I'd like ...
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Is there a simple way to protect my webpage by password?
I am writing some simple HTML pages. I need to protect some pages and some files (to be downloaded) by requiring username and password. Do anyone has a simple solution? Thank you very much!
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Are there any good reasons to intentionally serve a new web site in Quirks mode?
I was a little surprised that Amazon's site doesn't specify a doctype, and is rendered in quirks mode. What could possibly be the reason for this? I understand what quirks mode is and why doctypes ...
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Using hreflang to specify a catchall language
We have a site primarily targeted at the UK market, and are adding a US-market alternative. As per Google's recommendations:
To indicate to Google that you want the German version of the page to
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Migrating a small web application for smartphones by creating narrow HTML pages?
I have a small web site offering a couple of functionalities, but it was not designed to operate with smartphones then. I don't have experience with smartphone application development (and this might ...
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Big stylish quotes using only HTML/CSS?
Is there a simple way to pull off this style of quotes in HTML/CSS without having to resort to images or things like absolute positioning? It seems every time I look away something new and awesome is ...
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Will linking individual words within my content help or hinder my SEO Ranking?
I am trying to improve my SEO Ranking, will linking my content to other pages on the site hinder or help my results. For instance if I was to link back to the home page every time I mentioned the ...
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What is the way to properly implement a Facebook Like button on a page for best SEO purposes?
On our site we want to put a Facebook Like button/widget-thingy. It is possible to create a like button, where the URL associated with the button is the page it sits on, rather than a Facebook page.
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Create single HTML file from many HTML files by keeping header, sidebar & footer section common
I don't know whether I am missing a trick in HTML. I have one simple HTML website which has over 100 HTML pages. For each page the header, sidebar & footer section are the same but the content is ...
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hProduct-microformats not work in google
I'm trying to work with hProduct
was testing tool for google microformats ( http://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/richsnippets ), but it is not recognizing the data:
does not recognize the photo
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Difference between linking to specific page or folder
Is there a difference between linking to www.example.com/site/index.html and www.example.com/site/ since it'll point to the same page?
I point everything i can to a folder on my website, i just think ...
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SEO pagination link title
I have pagination links like so:
<a href="?page=2" rel="next">2</a>
Now when searching google google link to this page is 2, as you see here (google link).
Does adding a title to ...
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If I override <STRONG> in CSS, does it retain any style elements?
As per title - If i override the HTML tag <STRONG> in CSS, by specifying a different font weight and size, does it retain any other style settings/properties?
strong {
font-weight:700;
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Is there a class or id that will cause an ad to be blocked by most major adblockers?
Is there a general class or ID for a html element that a high majority of popular adblockers will block on a website it has no information for.
My intention is to have my advertisement blocked, ...
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What are the pros and cons of using Dublin Core meta tags?
This is an open question on why, how, or when to use or not use Dublin Core meta tags. For example, <meta name="DC.title" content="Title of my Webpage" />. Should this be used in addition to or ...
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Canonical Tag Not Being Recognized
I'm puzzled by the first Google search result in this list.
The first result has the following rel="canonical" tag:
<link rel="canonical" ...
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Possible to only load specifiv div of a website?
I have this project i'm working on and id like to add a really small list of nearby places using facebooks places in an iframe feature from touch.facebook.com I can easily just use ...
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multilanguage site meta content-language tag
I have a website which is in 3 languages: English (primary), German and French. When a language is selected all of page's content is translated to the selected language (the page content is always in ...
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Why do all of the various design grids neglect horizontal spacing?
Whether its 960grid or Fluid or 9/12/16/20 column grid systems...they all factor in vertical spacing but never horizontal spacing. Granted we view sites top-to-bottom so we don't necessarily design ...
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Duplicate alt tags in a big gallery
Our website mainly consists of galleries, while usually smaller, they sometimes reach over 100 images per post.
As each image is bound to the same topic, they are automatically named after the post ...
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How to overcome politics of the net (Google translate code refuses to work from a specific region)
According to the FAQ's I am not sure if my question is a ok to ask or will be closed or should I post it in the meta or even I would blame some one for downvoting it. However it is one that has been ...
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Adding my blog to my website
Hi
I've got a blogspot blog. I want to display my posts in my HTML-Based website. What should I do? I've already tried adding it as RSS but failed. I want everything to look natural. I don't want my ...
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Embedding a Disqus forum on my website: showing scrollable area instead of expanding the height
I hope I put this question as it should, I am not an expert in html/css/javascript, so forgive me if it's not very clear.
The issue is as follows. I made my first website last week for the birth of ...
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Favicon will not show up… Searched other questions, no answers
My favicon will not show up. I have searched the site for similar questions and I do not see where I am going wrong. Here is my tag:
<head>
<link rel="shortcut icon" href="/favicon.ico" ...
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What is this image type on Youtube.com?
Go to this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qrO4YZeyl0I on Firefox6.0
Now, right click on the black image (View Background Image), you will see this in the address bar:
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Breadcrumbs in H1 - How does it affect Google?
Is it good for Google?
Like this:
<h1> Home >> Services >> Toilet cleaning >> Showcase </h1>
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Importance of 'href' attribute within an <a>
I am aware of the 'content is king' seo rule, but I'm also wondering whether empty <a> HTML elements is a relatively big downside regarding SEO.
To be more precise and actually cut to the ...
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Should a Computer Scientist do the HML + CSS job when building a website?
I'm studying Computer Science, and I've always been more interested in programming than in designing and creating the layout of some websites.
Is this something I should know? Or should I focus on ...
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Best and safest SEO way to hide h1 tags
I want to use images that I created in PS for page titles. Because they will be images they will not be picked up by Google, etc. What is the best practice for hiding the <h1>? I was planning on ...
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domain names ending with book
I want to make a humorsite, not a social network, but a humorsite. But my domain name ends with book.
Do you think facebook would make a fuss about it?
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Which is better to use <b> or <strong> for SEO?
I've been coding for a while and it's just struck me, what's better to use in terms of SEO:
<b>Hello</b>
or
<strong>Hello</strong>
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Space in img:s “ALT” attribute good/bad for search engines?
I am trying to make it easier for search engines to crawl my website, as it is almost 100% dynamic.
I have a couple of transparent images which are actually links to sections of my page.
I wonder, ...
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Speeding up website“speed”?
We use Google Analytics to measure traffic on one of our websites (who doesn't?).
One of the thing that strikes us is the "page speed" tab. It shows that our website takes on average 5.69 seconds to ...
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Can I safely include “self-defined” HTML Tags in a HTML Website?
I have seen a website that has a doctype of
<!DOCTYPE html>
This website uses HTML Tags that I have never seen before like <section>.
My Question:
1.) Is this kind of "generic ...
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SEO on my website
I have a website that I made for a friend who runs his own business.
I designed and built the website for him and then hosted it on MY hosting package and URL - Lets call this URL 1.
He was happy ...
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Can the webpage title be changed after site has been loaded.
Can the web page title be set to be dynamic?
I want to let some part to be updated in title, if any changes occur, an automatic update resulting in a bit of word addition to the title.
Example : the ...
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HTML/CSS website hosting [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to find web hosting that meets my requirements?
I would like to host my HTML/CSS website (actually, just one page, but it may grow). Since I don't need PHP, MySQL or ...
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Question aboud Headings For Professionals <H1>… <H9> in SEO & Browsercompatibility Differences
We all know the importance ans significance of Headings for Professional Webmasters. These were known for professional developers as <h1>Heading 1</h1> h2 ... h6.
As a daring webdeveloper ...
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How can I slice parallelogram shapes to HTML/CSS?
I have to slice website design to HTML/CSS. Main navigation menu looks like below:
I am beginner webdeveloper and I don't know how to slice this design into compatible and cross-browser code. How ...
