Three Things To Avoide In Web Design
Three things to avoide in web design:
Flash Animations. Search Engines can not read flash yet, soon they probably will, and they see the flash content as empty space. When they find flash animations they just skip them, having nothing to index, and your site will register as nothing to index. I know that these flash animation can look very cool, but try to avoid them, if you use them don’t call them automatically when the page loads, put a link where the visitors can call and watch them if they want to.
JavaScript. JavaScript is another little beast, again to be avoided, the search engines might read them as been the content of the page, which of course has nothing to do with the content of the page, and that can confuse the search engine spiders and the result is that your pages don’t get listed. The best way to use javascript is to put the script into a text file with the js extension and then put a line between the head tags that calls the script; something like this: “<script type=”text/javascript” src=”http://www.yourdomain.com/folder-where-the-file-is/somescript.js” language=’javascript’></script>. I like javascript because is quick and doesn’t reload the page when it makes the changes, I think is really cool and if used calling a file with the js extension, as I explained above, it doesn’t do much damage.
HTML Errors. I go deeper into HTML error in another post Rank 1, but without being boring I won’t stop insisting on the importance of reducing the error as much as you can. The Markup Validation Service gives two types of error one is called “error” and the other is called “warning”, try to get rid of the errors completely and keep the warnings to a minimum.
