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Posted by How does it work on 01/11/08 20:49
On Jan 10, 5:47 pm, dorayme <doraymeRidT...@optusnet.com.au> wrote:
> In article
> <c687dc93-06f8-4a5d-84c4-b50318c34...@f3g2000hsg.googlegroups.com>,
>
> How does it work <mydreambas...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> > When building a site your index page should be built just like the
> > other ones right?
>
> > Meaning keywords, description and title should be page spacific and
> > include all the links to your other pages within the domain or sub-
> > domain and all other pages just have a home link on it?
>
> It is rarely a good idea to put on the home page the links to
> every single pag. That is what a site map is for. The whole
> question of navigation is a big one. Care to ask something more
> specific?
>
> I can suggest to you that it is a good idea generally to put
> links to the gate pages of all major sections of the website on
> the home page. But there is no need and it is often simply
> confusing and overkill to go further. A pox on all such sites, a
> pox on the absurd use or overuse of dropdown menus.
>
> The important thing is that each major section has a local
> navigation for its own content and a means to get back to the
> home page and also the other section gateways. If you were to do
> just this, you be doing something good and sound and true.
>
> > How important is text to code ratio?
>
> Now that is a nice question! The sort that can stimulate debate
> depending on the interpretation. If you mean markup text (like
> tags and such) to content (where content is basically real
> information available the user) then let me propose a theory: the
> bigger the ratio (with content being the big bit), the more
> elegant and better the website. Overcoding and over specifying
> and over everything is the normal crappy thing to be found daily
> on websites. But simplicity of structure and rich in information
> is the rare delight.
>
>
>
> > When you build your index page should you add your sitemap.xml to it
> > and where in the head?
>
> I put a sitemap link in the footer of every single page quite
> often, but there is no hard rule, there are good arguments for
> making this more prominent I am sure.
>
> --
> dorayme
Thank you
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