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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How many H2, h3 h4 are the maximum recommended?
I know that only one H1 is recommended, but what about the other titles? I've read that you can put "as many as required H2 elements to denote sections on the page".
Is it correct?
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Do search engines understand multiple rel values?
I need to have hyperlinks on my page that will look something like:
<a href="/someurl" rel="prettyPhoto[main] nofollow">Link</a>
So basically the rel attribute has two values.
I know ...
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How can I automatically clean, beautify, and autoindent dynamic HTML code?
Using content management systems to build dynamic sites invariably results in ugly HTML. Indent levels are often wrong, white space litters the page, and a host of other tiny annoyances plague anyone ...
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Alt attribute for SEO recommendation
If I want my site to be no.1 for a particular keyword search, would it harm me or help me if I put alt="keyword" in all of the images I have in the site?
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Are 22 words too many for an h2 tag?
I'm laying out the structure of my page like this:
<hgroup>
<h1>Heading One</h1>
<h2>Tagline</h2>
</hgroup>
And while I don't have a tagline per se, I ...
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Is using HTML entities (for language-specific characters) in UTF-8 necessary?
As in the subject-line. Saw the situation the other day on a page which felt weird to me. Except for markup-delimiting characters such as pointy brackets or the ampersand, escaping, say, German ...
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Which is faster, adding rounded corners to images, or adding rounded corners in CSS
Which of the following will load faster,
Creating a square image and adding rounded corners via CSS
Adding rounded corners to the image by default and not using the extra css.
Also, if 2 is ...
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Sitename alternate suggestion SEO
I had a question about SEO.
Say, I've made a restaurant website, which is running for a while now. I added some titles, meta tags, keywords,description,etc,etc on it's pages.
Now, let's say for ...
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Google Webmaster Tools says my XML sitemap “appears to be an HTML page”
We're running a lot of sites and we've started to get a lot of these errors in Webmaster Tools:
Sitemap is HTML
Your Sitemap appears to be an HTML page. Please use a supported sitemap format ...
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Is there a way to save MS Word document as HTML w/o the ms proprietary stuff?
So normally I wouldn't use this feature ("Save as Web Page") but I have large documents from clients they just want put on their site as HTML, and formatting it all by hand seems like a waste of time.
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Do you have stats/trends for use of different HyperText Markup Languages?
For example: html-XYZ, xhtml, html5
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What is the maximum size of an HTML file that Google will crawl through?
I have a 10MB HTML file. Will Google crawl through the entire file, or does it only look at the first X MB?
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What is this thing called?!?! (bottom of screen popup)
I am looking for the name and some possible jquery libraries etc for the standard bottom of screen popup bar.
Its like a little bar that pops out on the bottom of the screen after X seconds or ...
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SEO optimization for AJAX site and dynamic HTML canvas
I have a site that uses AJAX to query the Last.fm database and then dynamically draws a graph of the results on an HTML canvas. In the search function, I have a command that sets window.location.hash ...
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Page Speed Optimization Questions: defer parsing and specifying a char set?
Continuing to optimized a web site, I'm using Chrome's Dev Tool add-on for Page Speed.
I've been able to do a good bit of performance tuning thanks to its suggestions, but these two have me ...
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Using js and cookies to show different content on homepage? Good or Bad Practice?
I just wanted to get everyone's opinion on this, so I've been thinking about using a cookie I set on our ecommerce site to show customers different content when they return to the website. It is ...
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[pic] Possible to style a text with CSS?
Preparing for a meeting with our designer later today, I was looking through his Photoshop sketches and wonder whether the following one could be expressed in HTML/CSS, without the need to render the ...
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Math to create web design grids?
I have my own grid layout, and I am creating multiple column designs for a website. Is there any formula I can follow to create different column designs with identical gutter space, ie. margins?
Most ...
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Fonts: Is changing the default font a good practice?
I've searched PW, but I saw that no one has asked specifically yet. Is changing the default font a good practice for the main body font? What are the pros and cons to using different fonts? This ...
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Do search engines use the id's and classes of HTML elements as clues?
This is more for interest sake than anything else, since I assume it will make very little difference, but I was wondering whether there is any evidence that search engines (Google, Yahoo!, Bing, for ...
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Automatically generate and cut off the blog post preview texts from the full post text? Yes, no?
I run a blog with over 1000 posts that are only separated by tags, so each post can have multiple of those.
As it is mostly short news, videos and galleries, the description consists of 3-5 lines of ...
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Fixing validator error “cannot generate system identifier for general entity”
The W3C validator shows a "cannot generate system identifier for general entity" error when attempting to validate a page that contains the following code:
<script type="text/javascript" ...
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What meta/link html tags important for seo? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
New META TAGS with positive effects for seo ranking in 2011 and beyond
What are meta tags important for seo? Especially for blogs. I often find something new, maybe you ...
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SEO in image's path?
Does including keywords in the image's folder path of any importance at all for SEO ? (Keywords for the image's filename are important.)
/foobar/images/keyword.jpg
vs
/keyword/images/keyword.jpg
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How do the professionals slice PSD's really fast?
I've got a solid background in HTML and CSS, but my company frequently outsources PSD to HTML slicing to another company, and they somehow return the results really, really fast. Has anyone had any ...
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Is this safe? <a href=http://javascript:…>
I wonder if href and src attributes on <a> and <img> tags are always safe w.r.t. XSS attacks, if they start with http:// or https://.
For example, is it possible to append javascript: ... ...
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Semantic Form Markup for Yes or No Questions
I frequently receive mock-ups of HTML forms with the following prototype:
Some long winded yes or no question? (o) Yes ( ) No
The (o) and ( ) in this prototype represent radio buttons. ...
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Could link decoration be considered deceptive?
A discussion in the warrior-forum made me wonder if google might perceive link decoration as an attempt to deceive the visitors..
The issue being if you style your links to show like normal text.
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Can I change the type of elements in the microdata format?
With regard to microdata I was wondering if the elements must be exactly like the examples (http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=176035) or that Google/Bing look if the ...
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Make HTML static site more SEO friendly
I am desinging a website as shown in below image, right now it's just a basic structure. This site is totally static, basically I've 6 main pages in website. navigation section, slider and footer will ...
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Will a search engine lower the rank of my page if i have hidden iframes?
As a praxis, all external content on our site is put in iframes to lower the risks of any external parties injecting stuff to our users. We also do it to make sure our content shows up before banners, ...
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Is content in option tags indexed?
Is data inside an <option> tag indexed?
For example, would the following option tag allow "Volvo", "Saab", "Opel" and "Audi" to be indexed by a crawler?
<select>
<option ...
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Sending HTML to Gmail always lands in Spam
I am having an issue with sending HTML emails to Gmail. I can send them to Yahoo, Hotmail, RR, AOL, etc. with no problem at all, but when I send them to Gmail I get kicked to spam.
I have checked ...
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Would using AJAX only “Add to Cart” buttons be wise?
I want to AJAX enable all of my Add To Cart buttons because search engine bots are indexing these and not paying attention to my robots file or site map. I just don't want to loose potential ...
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JS and CSS caching issue: possibly .htaccess related
I've been using the HTML5 Boilerplate for some web projects for a while now and have noticed the following issue cropping up on some sites.
My CSS and JS files, when loaded by the browser, are being ...
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Does using onclick on div's effect SEO?
I have a few elements on my page that uses onclick as the link, e.g:
<div class="service" onclick="location.href='<?php echo $fields->service_1_link; ?>'" style="cursor:pointer;">
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Can I get IIS to treat some .shtml files as .php files?
I want to be able to get IIS to interpret SHTML files (only in a specific directory) as PHP, and interpret the rest as SHTML.
If so, then how?
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html 5 doctype & SEO
I am trying to get my pages validated using Markup Validation Service on W3C validator.
We are getting validation against the XHTML 1.0 Strict doctype comes back with the following error:
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My website title shows up slightly different from what's in my title tag, only in Google search
I've included my page title in the title tag in this format:
" blah blah blah | sitename ". But for some reason it's showing up on Google search results as " sitename: blah blah blah ".
It shows up ...
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Effect of removing home page content
I have a business website that I'm working on and I'm replacing the text I initially had on the home page with new columnized paragraphs of text. The text I'm removing though has a h1 tag and probably ...
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Implementing inline editing for a web order form without using Javascript
As the title states, I'm trying to find a good solution to implement inline editing for a web order form with just HTML/CSS.
The only mediocre solution I have right now is this -> ...
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Will google crawl a page with a 302 redirect?
I am trying to lock content on my Wordpress site, but obviously I want Google to crawl it. When I lock the content, the header comes back as a 302 redirect(redirecting to a page where someone can ...
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<!--hppage status=“protected”--> Bad for SEO?
I've just come across this protection code:
<!--hppage status="protected"-->
It hides the html and page code from anyone who wants to right click and view source. I can't see a work around to ...
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What tool to use to modify HTML file structure
I have HTML files with all sharing the same structure. Something like this:
Body
Table
tr1
... (more nested tables)
tr2
... (more nested tables)
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Disabling frequent reloads of visitor
In my website i have some pages, that makes connections to 3-4 sites and checks the results with my database and gathers a full table. This table includes all the data that the visitor would need.
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Effect on SEO of lazy scrolling on HTML comments
I am thinking about using a JS script that lazy loads HTML when scrolling ( http://ivorycity.com/blog/2011/04/19/jquery-lazy-loader-load-html-and-images-on-scroll/).
I am not too sure about whether ...
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HTML Editor for Windows Mobile Smartphone
Are there any HTML editors for windows mobile smartphones with which I can create HTML on my smartphone?
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Do mobile devices support file uploads via HTML forms?
I'm making a job application form for a website where one of the fields lets you attach a CV. I'm also mobile optimising the site with media queries. Can any mobile devices upload files in this way ...
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Easy user management on html site?
I hope I'm not asking a question for which the answer is obvious...If I am, apologies.
Within my html site (i.e. not Wordpress, Joomla, etc.) I want to be able to have a level of user management. ...
