Try as we might to understand the ins and outs of seo, we are never really entirely sure because we aren’t google. So we test things out, play around with scenarios and see if anything correlates well. If it does, chances are its a good thing to do generally.
So its bloody annoying when you see something that defies any logic based on what you know to work and what you’ve been told by google.
Google webmaster guidelines have said for quite some time that all web pages should have what is know as a doc type in the header coding for each page. It should also have a UTF tag too etc. Without these google says it doesn’t rank the websites as well as others.
Balls! It ranks them just as bloody well, in fact better in some cases! I spend hours upon hours optimising web sites according to google guidelines only to find sites that don’t conform to any standards at all.
Why oh why do we bother?
Because at the end of the day it’s what testing and experimenting tells us works. Without this kind of knowledge it would all be pure guesswork.
Why does it happen? For the same reason blatent abuses of doorway pages still rank high…..no one knows what goes on inside google’s head (figuratively speaking of course).
The good news is that our educated approach still works too and its more predictable than pure guess work and luck!
Posted by Grande Fromage | Posted in web design | Posted on 22-07-2011
This has to be one of the most frustrating things going – designing and perfecting html forms. How many people have ended up with some less than attractive looking thing because they had to accept they just couldn’t do anything with it. And it’s not even the grand things like hiding emails to avoid spamming or creating captchas. No it’s getting space between those blasted text boxes!
Why am I talking about this now? Well because I had cause to create some whitespace between the rows of a form the other day and I wanted to see if there were any new developments on form designing. I searched for ages to find something that talked specifically about increasing or decreasing the space around table cells in a html web form.
It was painfully sparse and I spent a good half an hour looking. So I thought I’d help a few of you out. Beware, this is a tad on the complex side!
Formatting the space around cells in a html form table.
If you want to increase the amount of space between cells in your html form table, hover your cursor over the lines of the cell you want to increase and just drag it downward. Voila! You have now successfully added space in between the upper text box and lower text box.
Sometimes the simplest of things can seem so annoyingly difficult, yet its often because we overlook the most obvious solution.
Ok, so this solution assumes that all you want to do is make space around an already sized form element. However, when you want to resize the actual width or height of the text box or input element, that’s a different kettle of fish. Its still simple enough but its worth a post on it’s own.
If you need to know just mail me and I’ll create one for you.
