Bite Size Standards - bitesTasty nuggets of web standards goodnessCleaning up code with semantic anchors- July 12, 2006 The a element is all too common when building websites. We use it to create hyperlinks to other parts of our site and to external sites. We can also use it to link to specific sections on the current page, so a visitor can click on a link and jump to a footnote or to a specific answer on a Frequently Asked Questions page. This type of link points to anchors on the page&8212;anchors made originally as follows: <a name="content"><a> With such an anchor on the page, you could...http://bitesizestandards.com/bites/cleaning-up-code-with-semantic-anchors How to stop search engines from indexing your pages- July 12, 2006 Got something you want to put online, but you don't really want it showing up in search engine results Here are two quick and easy solutions. Use a specific meta tag For each page you don't want to appear in search engine results, have only one <meta> tag. Not a description, not some keywords, just a single <meta> tag for robots. <meta name="robots" content="noindex,nofollow,noarchive" > Pop that into the <head> of each page, and you're telling search engines not to..http://bitesizestandards.com/bites/how-to-stop-search-engines-from-indexing-your-pages Forget not thy head!- July 3, 2006 When researching and learning about web standards, it can be easy to get wrapped up in all the various important things that happen in the <body> of a webpage. Terminology like "semantic markup", "box model layouts", "DOM scripting", and a vast array of other things are enough to keep you so busy that you very well might end up neglecting one of your documents most important sections - the <head>. Before we get started, it's probably worth mentioning that this writeup is targeted...http://bitesizestandards.com/bites/forget-not-thy-head |