Sunday, January 24, 2010
Website Architecture
When constructing your website bear in mind the following points and check your website out to ensure it complies with all disability requirements and that it is constructed well so that it renders well in different browsers and is easily indexed by search engines.
- URL structure - do the urls use sessionids etc or are they search engine friendly, see Search Engine Friendly URLs;
- HTML structure - make sure pages are constructed using divs not tables. Tables are only used now for tabulated data. Do not use frames, avoid using Flash etc, see Search Engine Friendly Websites;
- Use external CSS and JS files;
- Navigation - is it the same on every page and is it clear. Every page on your website should be no more than 2 clicks from the home page.
- Website accessibility - test your website so that it complies with all disability and accessibilty requirements, see SEO Tools;
- Use of rel=canonical, see Using rel=canonical;
- Coding, check your HTML and CSS is compliant, see Website Tools;
