Meta Tags & Keywords

Hi Everyone!
Well, my website's looking better... still needs more color
variation, but it works, and that's the main thing right now...
always accepting constructive criticism though.

My next step is adding keywords and meta tags. I have absolutely no
idea what they do, other than help the search engines determine how to
find you. Any help in this would be greatly appreciated. Thanx a
bunch!

~Paula~
www.bodysaltz.com
ps. I realize there are still some errors on my site, but not sure how
to fix them just yet... any help on that gratefully accepted too!

Body Saltz wrote:

Hi Everyone!

Hi, Paula

Well, my website's looking better... still needs more color
variation, but it works, and that's the main thing right now...
always accepting constructive criticism though.

My next step is adding keywords and meta tags. I have absolutely no
idea what they do,

A good sign you needn't bother.

other than help the search engines determine how to
find you.

Well, not quite. See below.

Any help in this would be greatly appreciated. Thanx a bunch!

http://www.bodysaltz.com
ps. I realize there are still some errors on my site, but not sure how
to fix them just yet... any help on that gratefully accepted too!

Errors and Warnings as numbered by the validator:
Warning 1 ("character "<" is the first character of a delimiter but
occurred as data."):
Stems from #2...

Error 2 ("literal is missing closing delimiter"):
<meta name="description" content="Buy ...Relaxed./> lacks a closing ".

Warning 3 ("character "<" is the first character of a delimiter but
occurred as data."):
<meta name="keywords/> should be <meta name="keywords"/> as a minimum
(actually, the *real* minimum is to leave the whole meta element out),
otherwise make it <meta name="keywords" content="body saltz, body salts,
spa, healing" /> or similar. My understanding is that most or many or
all or some search engines completely ignore the keywords element. The
"description" meta element does appear to be used, if only to display
some text *after* the page is found to match soem search criterion.

Error 5: See #3.

Error 6 ("document type does not allow element "ul" here; assuming
missing "li" start-tag ."):

You're already in the middle of an unordered list (id="navlist") so you
either have to end the list with </ul> or nest a new <ul> *inside* one
of the <li> elements. Looking at your code I'd say this should just be a
</ul>.

Error 7 ("document type does not allow element "p" here; assuming
missing "li" start-tag ."): Stems from #6, because the <ul> is looking
for <li>'s and only <li>'s. Change #6 and this one goes away.

Error 8 ("there is no attribute "border"."): Not a valid attribute.

Error 9 ("end tag for "li" omitted, but OMITTAG NO was specified."): Fix
#6 and delete this superfluous </ul> tag.

Errors 11 and 13: should go away with #6.

Errors 15 & 16 ("there is no attribute "align"."): There isn't.

Error 17 ("end tag for element "ul" which is not open ."): Can't have
too many closing </ul>'s, I always say. Oh wait a minute; yes you can.

I don't remember if we talked about your use of XHTML (rather than HTML)
is previous rounds. But if it is of any use to you, it is as a means of
checking your syntax with the validator. Of course, you can use the
validator for HTML just as well, too, so HTML 4.01 strict might be a
better choice.

I *do* seem to remember we talked about scrolling. Your use of overflow:
keeps my mouse's scroll wheel from working. This makes me not want to
use your site more than, say, lime green text on a purple background does.

The "View Tub" button doesn't seem to do anything.

HTH
--
John

On 2007-02-13, John Hosking wrote:

Body Saltz wrote:

The "View Tub" button doesn't seem to do anything.

There are INPUT tags, but no FORM or ACTION.

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On Tue, 13 Feb 2007 13:56:49 -0800, Body Saltz wrote:

Hi Everyone!
Well, my website's looking better... still needs more color
variation, but it works, and that's the main thing right now...
always accepting constructive criticism though.

My next step is adding keywords and meta tags. I have absolutely no
idea what they do, other than help the search engines determine how to
find you. Any help in this would be greatly appreciated. Thanx a
bunch!

~Paula~
www.bodysaltz.com
ps. I realize there are still some errors on my site, but not sure how
to fix them just yet... any help on that gratefully accepted too!

Hi Paula,

I should preface my comments by stating that I am still a beginner, but
a enthusiastic one :-) I liked the general look of the site and I can
certainly appreciate the work that has gone into it! some constructive
criticism:

1. Would the navigation (navlist) be better situated below your main logo?
I am not such a big fan of the position:fixed; that you have used for the
div that holds your navlist but I guess that is a choice :-) Pages are
always arguably better allowed to flow.

2. Some of the errors, at least on the opening page are relatively trivial:

i) <meta name="keywords/> is probably a typo?
<meta name="keywords" content="blah, blah, blah" />

ii)<meta name="description" you have simply omitted the " at the end.

iii)There is probably not a good reason for making the section under
your navlist an <ul> ? (particularly when you use <p> instead of <li> in
the list :-) Did you actually mean to close the navlist before this
section?

iv) 'there is no attribute "border".' = this is not permitted in the
strict Doctype that you have selected. Specify this in the CSS if you
need to.

v) there is no attribute "align". this is not permitted in the
strict Doctype that you have selected. Specify this in the CSS if you
need to.

3. Would you consider adding a light border:left to your #content div?

4. There is a fairly high use of &nbsp; and <p align="center">&nbsp;</p>
on the opening page which could probably be trimmed away with judicious
attention to the CSS

BTW I like the idea of 'BodySaltz' for dogs! We have a cavalier king
charles spaniel and this would be perfect for her. Pity you are in the
other side of the world!! (I am in Australia).

All the very best,

Andrew

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