| The practices that may increase the usability of a | | | | machines. It helps both the machine and human |
| web design and would also contribute to a better | | | | visitors to understand the content. |
| Symantec web. | | | | Why it is important that we should make our it |
| Managing a web site has become so easier these | | | | machine readable? Well first of all it improves your |
| days. Anyone can just get online and buy a domain | | | | search engine ranking, this means that you appear |
| name plus hosting, anyone can auto install an open | | | | more prominently in the search results if someone |
| source CMS such as Joomla or WordPress, and within | | | | searches for the information you are sharing. |
| minutes anyone can start publishing content. This is | | | | Secondly, it helps the indexes like search engines and |
| wonderful, such freedom and such openness was | | | | other organizations to collect data about it, its |
| never observed by the mankind. These great | | | | growth, what kind of information is published and |
| communication tools are actually a big leap in the | | | | how the access to the web can be made easier. |
| history of communication and speech. | | | | A good web design makes sure that colors are right |
| However, it is growing at extremely fast speeds. | | | | for human eyes. Fonts are not too small or too large, |
| Each day millions of new pages are published. | | | | the design is follows the guidelines provided by |
| Hundreds of Indexes are maintained across the globe | | | | standardizing organizations such as W3C. Check your |
| to keep track of all these and to make them publicly | | | | links to make sure there are no broken links. Add |
| accessible. Still, hundreds and thousands of sites are | | | | page with the contact information of the publisher of |
| those that do not appear on these indexes or buried | | | | the website, add an about page, add features like |
| so deeply that are almost inaccessible. In this article | | | | search so that your site's human visitors can find |
| we discuss how ordinary publishers who are not | | | | more information and Share this buttons so that the |
| experts in programming, coding, or writing | | | | information can be shared by your human visitors to |
| documents; can contribute towards building a web | | | | their social networks. |
| that is accessible and usable. | | | | A better web design for machines and search |
| The foremost important thing on a site is not just | | | | engines should have proper keywords in the title tag, |
| the content; it is that makes the content readable | | | | keyword meta tag and description tag. The headings |
| and accessible. A bad design makes the content | | | | should be made clearer and the textual content |
| inaccessible or unusable which ultimately kills the | | | | should be available for machines to reach on |
| purpose of publishing. Sharing information and data is | | | | documents where there is no text content, just |
| not good enough, this information and data should be | | | | graphic content such as images or videos. |
| wrapped under a nice web-design. | | | | Keeping it clutter by simply using some common |
| What exactly is a nice web design? | | | | practices would help all of us eventually. More |
| A nice design take cares of two kinds of visitors or | | | | information will be shared, more information will be |
| readers. The first kind is the human web surfer and | | | | published and more information will be accessible to |
| the second kind is crawlers, bots, and machines | | | | the mankind. Just building the library is not enough we |
| reading your content and storing information about its | | | | all need to make sure that we work towards a web |
| availability. A Good design takes care of both. It | | | | that is accessible to everyone. |
| makes your content readable by readers and also by | | | | |