[WSG] Standards in the community space
Hey WSGers, While this doesn¹t fall into our normal definition of technical¹ web standards I am positive meetings like this will help in our endeavour to define what standards will be necessary in the shifting online community. Hurry the tour starts Monday! The Digital Kingmaker is coming to Australia ³Obama¹s secret political weapon, Ben Self will visit Australia next week to tell the story of the most successful online political campaign in history. This tour is rarer than a Farnham farewell and will not be repeated. Register your interest now: Exclusive Executive Lunch at 12.30pm Sydney CBD on Monday 16 February Exclusive Executive Lunch at 12.30pm Melbourne CBD on Tuesday 17 February Communication Professionals Cocktails at 6pm Melbourne CBD on Tuesday 17 February Exclusive Executive Event Canberra CBD on Thursday 19th February BOOK HERE - http://couchcreative.com.au/kingmaker09/ READ MORE - Obama's web strategist to advise Rudd http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2009/02/13/1234028253832.html A reason to love him:- Despite willing to help out with its internet strategy, in a separate, video interview with The Australian Financial Review, Self criticised the Rudd Government's controversial plan to censor the internet, saying it's always a dangerous thing to start filtering content of any type. Hope to see some of you there, Dannielle *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: memberh...@webstandardsgroup.org ***
Re: [WSG] SEO, fact or fiction
Hello Everyone, Thanks a bomb for all your thoughts! You've been most helpful. In future I'll be more careful with keeping any queries more obviously standards-centric. Thanks again, Dannielle On 9/3/08 7:46 PM, Mark Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: tee wrote: On Mar 7, 2008, at 12:36 AM, Stuart Foulstone wrote: Hi, Search robots are essentially blind users. Anybody knows about this? I think what Kevin meant is that the googlebot takes no notice of graphical navigation or information, much as a blind user is unable to see it. The googlebot is also unable to process javascript navigation and links, so be sure to have alternate navigation. If you develop your pages with blind users in mind, it will serendipitously help you with the googlebot. The robots text is good for search robots, but I read from somewhere, that robots text no longer is needed when Google Sitemap is implemented for the site. I didn't know robots text was important for accessibility, however I learned from the accessites team that it is. As Lea said, someone is confused. No assistive technology that I know of pays any attention to the robots.txt file, nor would they gain much information from it if they did. The main use of a robots.txt file is to tell unwelcome search bots to go away. cheers mark *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ***
[WSG] SEO, fact or fiction
Hi Weberati, First, apologies to the list if this discussion has been had before, I'm newish here. I'm interested in how you all feel about SEO experts? Me, I'm old fashion and tend to rely on meta tags to content ratios and link exchange. Am I being naive? Or are the following types of promises more valid than free tools like this one:- http://www.submitexpress.com/analyzer/ ... let me undertake an SEO health check of your site. Just a quick look at your site tells me immediately that it is not presently optimized for search engine performance. A professional SEO report will ensure you change the right things in the right way. The report will identify the best phrases to use to improve your organic ranking and get maximum free traffic. Using specialist Search Engine Optimisation tools I will identify the optimum keywords for your business. I will document where your site currently ranks in the top 100 results for each keyword and allocate a percentage difficulty to each of them and advise you (objectively) on which words to integrate into your copy. I will ascertain your current link strength/popularity and advise how you might improve that and provide detailed recommendations on HTML title elements, meta tags, navigation structure, use of Flash, correct code validation and much more. It is the best investment you can make before changing anything on your website. Thanks! Dannielle *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ***
[WSG] Quality, quality, quality
Hey Sydney-siders, How great was Ben Buchanan last night?! So inspiring! Thanks Ben! For those that missed it, here's his blog:- http://weblog.200ok.com.au/ Now to start writing that documentation... Cheers, Dannielle *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ***
Re: [WSG] books
³Cascading Style Sheets: The Designer¹s Edge² by Molly E Holzschlag Think it costs about $100AUS but it¹s worth every cent if you are a beginner. This is Molly¹s website: http://www.molly.com/ Enjoy! On 19/2/08 5:31 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anybody can suggest me some good books or other resources for ·Webstandards · css technics · Ui design and development · javascript (especially for UI purpose) I prefer books Thanks a ton Naveen Bhaskar Menon *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ***
