Thursday, May 28, 2009

Dreamweaver

The more I use it, the better it gets, but lets face it you got to know what you are doing before any HTML can be written. The ability to switch from code back to UI is important, but I can't imagine anyone who is not "initiated" into programming doing any serious web design without knowing code. Is now everything "template" driven with a depth of point-and-click only. Agree?

Wednesday, May 27, 2009

Relevance of Title Header for SEO

I have listened and read about this from various places, and the most I can decipher is that the *title* is probably the most important html tag in your webpage that has very strong effects on your overall SEO strategy. Having said that, I can't seem to find a consensus of how to optimize it. That is, some say to put relevant keywords into the title. Others say that this "stuffing" of keywords is idiotic since the title will be picked up as a description of your site by Google, which would make the description difficult to read and follow. Another idea I read is to define the most relevant, the most money-maker keyword and build a sentence around it in the *title* tag. What works? Don't know, still tinkering. One of the ideas was to copy the *title* from one of the sites that you wish to mimic...not sure if this is effective and/or ethical.

Any thoughts?