Recently I went through some tutorials in w3schools.com about XHTML.
I got the idea that XHTML is just the combination of XML and HTML. It is just some changes which has to be done to the traditional HTML pages to make it XHTML page.
Now, my doubt is that is it that the search engines especially Google rank website page according to the HTML specifications they use in the page.
Like, will a XHTML page have a more edge over the HTML page when it comes to search rankings?
I couldn't tell you FOR SURE whether this is true or not. I can tell you that my website gets ranked very well even though it doesn't have a whole lot of links or traffic. The little traffic I do get comes from google and other search engines. I get search phrases that I never thought anybody would use to get to my site. I really really believe this is because the W3C XHTML and CSS standards compliance of my website. There's not an extreme amount of content on my site, but anything that is on there gets crawled by google extremely fast (an hour or maybe a few hours) and I get 1st page search results for very small insignificant keywords. I also have a pretty fair amount of meta data in the head of every page on my site, so that might help too. But the point is, in my opinion, my site gets a lot more traffic than I think it should. lol. But I guess I shouldn't complain.
If you're debating whether to redo your site in xhtml or not, my advice would be to just go ahead and do it! If it's too much work, I'm sure there are scripts out there that will do it for you. Or you could just make a script yourself. I may not be sure that it will help search engine results, but I am sure that it will not hurt! You gotta stick with the times. Eventually HTML 4.01 will die! You might as well just start cleaning up your code now, rather than waiting til it's too late. Then once you get it clean you can put a nice little "Valid XHTML" link on your site.
The biggest differences are that all tags need to be closed in xhtml, all tags must be in lower case, all attribute values must be quoted, and the cascade applies, still, so there CAN be CSS in the xhtml file, because having it in the xhtml file affects the cascade, but it really is wiser to seperate the content from the styling. Google and the other Bots prefer the xhtml files because the validated files tend to be smaller in size since the 'style information' is not in the file and the content is easier to find, identify and sort through. In a nutshell, xhtml is a stricter coding language/structure and as suggested above, you can benefit now and in the future by staying with the current recommendations. Eventually the xhtml rules will apply across the web, so either learn it now, or suffer the consequences of not staying current.
Here's the deal. I am new at working with web objects in photoshop. I have CS3, and I created a
really nice template. I'm told I have to do something with slicing. So I have the template, and
it has images, buttons, and text on the buttons, and text fields, etc. How can I export this to HTML
and images, and be able to open it up in dreamweaver in an editable web page? I've tried
exporting to "web and devices" and exporting as HTML and Images, but when I open it up in
dreamweaver, it looks right, but it is all images. Thanks...
im looking for any kind that is free really.... i use windows but if you have one for a different
platfor, go ahead and add it for reference for other users. If you have one for normal text editor
and wysiwyg, add them both. i have been using notepad as my normal html editor but im looking for
something different... at least so i can see the different colors of the codes. Right now i am
downloading moxilla's seamonkey suite but im not sure how good it is... i will post a review if
i ever use one. If you have used the html editor you suggest or you just heard abou...
im a noob when it comes to web html to design web sites, can some one tell me where to find a good
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Naming Web Page Files
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Everybody talks about meta tags, keywords, good title names and how they can increase page rankings,
etc. But I was wondering whether the page name itself holds any value in indexing. Yes, I am
talking about the web page file names (some-thing.html) NOT the one which you put in title tags. I
am going to express my views and want to know what you think is correct. I have seen pages named in
various ways like these: 1) my_web_page.html 2) DoYouLikeMyPage.html 3) hey-see-my-webpage.html (I
think this way is more appropriate) 4) this.is.a.page.html (somewhat confusing) ...
Hi I need some help , Im designing this website for school studies However, I made a flash drop down
menu, works perfectly, but you know how flash has a background when you export it in to a SWF file?
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navigation is only 50 px my buttons is width of 50px and the rest of the content is the drop down
animations i want to insert it into my navigation div box but i want to set the flash background to
transparent so that when the drop down menu comes down it overlaps the text or whateva...
I was desperate to finish a site I was designing after I lost my hard drive and my software. I
downloaded Expression Web from the Microsoft site for a 3 month free trial, and guess what? It's
surprisingly good! Nothing like that crappy frontpage, it's standards compliant and very
good for writing CSS. Haven't heard anybody mention the program and wondering if anybody else
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Help! Php Or Just Html?
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i try to start this topic in webhost category but it seems like i cant. i dont have the permission
so i just post my topic here. im sorry mod.. i want to build a website which contains: - Links to
videos - Informations - photos - flash i don't know if i should use php or just HTML. guys,
what are your opinions..??...
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will be passed along html_user(and if i have a distinct user then i can just query the database with
that info and get what i want) But how does this work? I am sorry i know this is cryptic i'm
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A Small Html Problem
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umlauted letters (such as " é " and " ë ") as question marks (" ? ") on my website. I come across
the same thing sometimes when looking at websites which use non-English characters. Funnily enough,
the other day, I looked at a site and the apostrophy ( ' ) was also shown as a question mark.
That is a very common character usually, I would think. I thought it had something to do with the
character encoding settings, and let me also mention I use Mozilla Firefox as my brows...
I am currently learning the basics of web building and i am wondering if and when you should use
html lists or css lists? The way i see it is if you are going to make a css list you are going to
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own question? or is there a web standard where you should always use css for lists? idk....
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After few years when I take a look of the web, I find that what I have learnt before is totally
obsolescent, the standard is changed a lot. So I go to book store to look for a book to learn it
from the beginning. I find there is too many books about web design. What I want is a book can tell
me the situation about the popular using method. After looking for about 1 hour, I find this book
"HTML,XHTML&CSS Sixth Edition" which was writen by Elizabeth Castro. I think this book is meet the
needs of me. What I want is to get the information of the new standard of web desig...
Well being a HTML its easy for me but what do people use the most? Is it HTML or PHP. It depends
really on which you learnt first. So im gonna have a poll.Post HTML for Html and PHP for php and we
will see which is more popular....
As of this post I am trying to convert my current html website to a flash site. I use iframes in my
html site and i am wondering if i can import html into a dynamic text box. I am wondering if i will
need to redo the entire design in flash or if I can just import the html. If anything is confusing,
please tell. Thanks in advance for the help /biggrin.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":D"
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Before I began creating websites myself, i used templates. The best selection of free ones is here:
TemplatesBox . Tons of free HTML and Flash templates (although you need to pay for the nicer ones),
I'm not affiliated with them I just thought there were alot of threads looking for templates and
this is a great resource....
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conditions are.... * Its free * It has syntax highlighting * It has a preview mode (like on
dreamweaver or whatever). * It doesn't have any spy/adware! I figured that theres probably
a great program out there somewhere, I just havent found it yet. I used to use one that I liked but
since the Great Hard Drive Crash of 2004 it has disappeared from my PC, and I can't find
anywhere to download it either.... Which (free) editor do you use? - Vacant...
Besides Html / Css
- what kind of of coding do you use in your sites? (11)
Hey guys I have a question for normal sites what kind of coding do you use besides the regular HTML,
and CSS I realize for logins and forums etc.. php is common and the language of choice for database
interaction but besides that for more cosmetic appealing appearence do you use anything else? Im
asking this question cause im thinking of learning Java but im not sure how much that would help my
web site design skills. And if thats not the one(in your opinon) to learn if I want to get better
at website coding which one is? I have a shallow knowledge of VB and C++ but c...
Hi all, does anybody use the TSW webcoder? I ave been using this to do my site for about 3 months
now and it's great. It's easy to use and just got alot of functions. Has anyone got te
newest version of it? and wats new in the new version? Thanks...
I'm new in web design and I want to build a web site where my family can view thumbnail pages
with family photos and select the thumbnails to view the original photo. As a starter I thought
about a couple of thumbnail pages to increment or decrement. I want to generate the pages with a
free tool in order to review the html code for self learning purpose. Is this a good approach and is
there any free tool suitable for this? Tillo...
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website ,.for example , something like User Name (text box) User Email: (text box) COmments (text
box) Submit form Reset Form Just like that, so that when user click on UBMIT form, button, it
takes all the inputs from the above boxes and sends to a pre defined email adress.and on submitting
it shows a new thanks page. Well..there are some forms when you fll everything, they open ur default
mailbox and then send etc etc i want that to send direct (i.e. without opening the ...
What is a HTML editor? A HTML editor i basically a text editor but it has some advanced
features.The important one being able to translate written text into HTML codes.Nowadays everyone
uses HTML editors but still there are some guys doing it over a Text editor What do you fell about
this At present iam creating a webpage with MS FP .It is user friendly and actually a very good
tool for a beginner.Beginers look no further than FP.Also one cannot expect,atleast 99% ,a flop show
from Microsoft.It has an integrated FTP. But all sites do not support FP extensi...
Which CMS are standar compliant? I know it also depends on the template, but not totally. I know
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know particularly about mambo, php-nuke and xoops, but if theres another which is also as good as
those...)?...
Hello, I have some few questions about a HTML Editor... :/ does it help make your site easier? what
does it do? where can i get a good one, any recommendations? If it helps make your site easier then
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PHP is only a scripting language, meaning you will need HTML to make the output look good to the
user. However if you insert HTML normally PHP will generate some errors, so read this tutorial to
learn exactly how you need to format HTML for it to work with PHP. Lets say we want to display to
our users the following: Welcome to my website! In HTML the code for that would be: Welcome
to my website! However in PHP we need to add a forwards slash () in front of every quotation
mark so that we dont interfere with the quotation marks in the PHP functions. Lets t...
QUOTE The CoffeeCup HTML Editor is two editors in one. If you know HTML or want to learn more,
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HTML, use the drag and drop WYSIWYG Visual Editor. You also can go back and forth between the Code
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Hi! Im working on a little HTML project for myself and am teaching myself.. So I would like to
know how to set roll over effects and a short guide on it! What I mean is, I would like to know
the code of making the mouse over on links make the links go red... Or if anyone can give me a way
to do it on frontpage, because I cant find it! Thnx in advance!...
Does anyone know of any tutorial or can help me with making a form. I'll describe the situation
and lets see if you can help me. Ok like a few form or text areas that when you put some text into
them they'll input the words from the form area above into another form or textarea under it.
Sort of like an online html maker where you can select your background colors, put an image url in a
field, and some other options THAN you hit a button that says generate. and it generates a website
html source code where you can copy the whole thing and paste into your own we...
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