Archive for the ‘webdesign’ Category

Google vs Webdesign best practice

Monday, November 26th, 2007

I can’t believe it, but this is a “helpful solution” for problems with the google bot:

Where possible, use absolute rather than relative links. (For instance, when linking to another page in your site, link to www.example.com/mypage.html rather than simply mypage.html).

To be honest: if somebody does this, I will get aggressiv ;P Let’s think about it: Maybe your website ist located at mytest.mydomain.net so the link to your main page should point to http://mytest.mydomain.net/index.html instead of ./index.html. So you’ll have a lot of fun when moving to www.mydomain.net and changing your links…
Yes, I know the function “search & replace”, but I don’t like regular expressions and you just have to change the href=”xyz” stuff :D

font families

Wednesday, September 26th, 2007

Ok, the first thing I’ve learned right today is:
Fonts in the web aren’t perfect. I didn’t see the difference for a until I’ve changed the css sheet from
code {
font: 1.1em 'Courier New', Courier, Fixed;
}

to
code {
font: 1.2em Monospace;
}

There was a differnce, but I was too marginal for me.