These are interesting times for internet customers. Facebook got told for selling our data, but Google is roaming free. Data Protection laws are sprouting up yet more people are making a career out of data analytics and tools. Google Custom Search Engine perfectly illustrates these blurry lines of our shoddy times.
A common SEO practice is to rack popular keywords and fancy snippets; meanwhile a descriptive URL is often all that is needed. The neater the URL, the easier it becomes for people to remember WTH is the page doing in their bookmarks.
In the World WILD Web, the law of the jungle prevails: when people search for information on a webpage, they don’t necessarily want to research the topic. They only want to find the facts they need and get their quick feed!
Ah, good old error pages. They used to be as ugly as it gets: first because they left you in the middle of nowhere, second because their lack of design looked really dry. Developers would spend years before spotting their mistakes!
Did you know that the word accessibility almost always evokes the image of a disability sign in people’s mind? Developers are not any different: they want their webpages to be the most attractive, stylish and efficient, yet they frown internally when the talk of accessibility comes up.
As I said before, I’m new to the Website findability jargon. So when I first read about microformats I thought: “Yet another tool that nobody really uses but everybody likes to talk about”. Well, I was wrong.
In this blog, I will be focusing on Website Findability issues such as SEO, search, analytics and mark up. This is all part of my Web development course. So, over the next few weeks, I will research and review some of these essential topics, then post my findings on this blog.