Website owners and designers can provide instructions to search robots to deny or provide access to specific parts of their website. It can be helpful if you have specific pages or sections of a website that you do not want to show up in search results. The practice can be abused as well, as some...
Let's say you built a website locally and need to upload the whole thing to a remote UNIX / Linux server, but your site is quite large with numerous files, which would take a while to upload. Also, sometimes uploading a copy of a website can be tricky if you miss a file and forget to check the...
Making a user's experience enjoyable and hassle-free is a vital part of web design and development. In many website projects, you may need to have an HTML form with values pre-filled to describe the type of field the user is accessing. This is one of the simplest ways to execute this approach. It...
As part of our web design tips and tactics guide, here is a sometimes useful javascript technique of hiding broken images and their ALT text. This can be useful ( as a quick, temporary fix) when pulling from another source such as a dynamic array or a database output which may have a few broken...
by Jonathan Franchell, CEO of Ironpaper - For more tips and hacks: Need to remove a new line after h1 tags? Both web designers and SEO practitioners need to employ headline tags: H1, H2, H3 in several ways to improve web page structure and tag content with varying degrees of importance. You may...
WC3 released an updated working draft to guide web designers with the use of HTML5 and some comparisons to the previous version of HTML. There are a number of new changes that greatly extends the language by introducing new, fancy features but also it drops some elements from the language...
For a long time web designers had to battle limited choice with typography and font usage for their creations. In order to make an accessible website, a designer was forced to limit their choice to a handfull of fonts--the other option was to make a lower utility site using images for text--not a...
Although it is possible to place style sheet links (links to CSS files) anywhere in the body of a web page, it is a best practice to place your style sheet link in the head area of the document. By placing the reference link in the head area, your web pages will appear to load faster because it...
Organizing and making data shareable, searchable and classifiable is in increasingly vital practice within the field of web design. Designers must understand that their art is more than the intersection of verbal and non-verbal communication but it is also a practice of communication to machines,...
Link relations is a way to explain why a resource is be linked to as well as build an understanding of the relationship between data. Common uses of link relations in web design are linking to a stylesheet, image or a javascript file. HTML5 expands the concept of link relations even further by...