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Image Naming for Search Engine Optimization

jesse — Sat, 13 Nov 2010 02:10:58 +0000

We recently came across a great article on ZDNet regarding image naming and SEO.

The article talks about the proper ways to optimize your html and images for SEO. These SEO for image tips include: how to name your image, how to properly display image meta data, how to use alt text tags, image location, building links, and proper sizing of images.

Although fairly simple, if you follow some of these rules set in the ZDNet SEO article, it will help your site appear in more long tail searches and optimize images throughout your site your webpages.

Correctly optimizing your images for SEO is often overlooked. We at EJHost think that every bit of SEO counts and helps your website reach the top of SERP.

New Google WebP (weppy) Format Images

jesse — Fri, 01 Oct 2010 04:03:32 +0000

Today Google announced a new and exciting[?] image format, called WebP (pronounced “weppy”), with hopes of improving the web by reducing image sizes and in turn also reducing the massive amounts of data that flow through data centers such as Google’s.

Read the full article over at Web AppStorm..

HTML – Section 508 compliance

jesse — Wed, 26 May 2010 22:33:54 +0000

HTML Section 508 compliance are a set of standards for the blind or visually impaired. Too many websites are not in compliance, rendering them useless to those visually impaired or blind. Section 508 compliance standards are listed here.

A checklist of what Section 508 HTML and scripts compliance regulations are involved can be found here.

EJ Host’s website and HTML development process includes section 508 compliance. Section 508 compliance is an important regulation that many designers ignore. These developers are cutting off a significant portion of web traffic from accessing their sites.

HTML website development references

admin — Sun, 25 Apr 2010 17:32:14 +0000

Website design & development HTML, ASCII, and ISO-8859-1 codes can be difficult or impossible to remember. W3 Schools is a great website with references to almost anything you’d ever need when programming. They not only provide a great reference guide, they do a great job of explaining and providing examples. Use the following design / development / html references next time you’re developing a website

Website Design / Development / HTML References

HTML ISO-8859-1 Reference
http://w3schools.com/tags/ref_entities.asp

ASCII reference
http://w3schools.com/tags/ref_ascii.asp

HTML symbols
http://w3schools.com/tags/ref_symbols.asp

HTML URL Encoding
http://w3schools.com/tags/ref_urlencode.asp