So, I was inspired by the recent SEO’s losing weight contest and after spending far too long overweight. I’ve decided to begin my goal towards reaching a healthy weight. To be honest, I started this venture on July 1st, but this is the first chance that I’ve had to post and let people know what I’m embarking on.
So I guess first and foremost, I should let everyone know my starting point, where I’m at, and where I want to go.
July 1st, 2008
Starting Weight - 224lbs
Over the next 4 months, my goal is to lose 48lbs, or approximately 3 pounds per week. Feel free to follow along, join me in getting in shape, or make fun of me as I go. I’ll update everyone each week to let you know how things are going.
So, now that you know what’s going on, I’d like to let you know where I stand. After the first week, I must say that with a holiday included, I’m pretty happy with the progress so far.
July 8th, 2008
New Weight - 220lbs
Total Loss - 4lbs
4lbs down, 44lbs to go! Stayed tuned for some great fun.
So, I have a friend who is a professor at a University here in Baltimore, and I came across a link on their Facebook page about this video. This is a video of how you should setup your web site. I thought it was a very unique and interesting way to discuss building a high quality web site.
Make sure to take a moment and review this video. Definitely should be one of your favorites.
Design with Quality Video
So the last few months have been crazy with the Holidays, Work, My Business, Buying a Business for my wife and so much more. I’ve been unable to focus and keep up to date with this world and for that I apologize. I’m back and will be focusing on the original article surrounding 25 keys to building a great website and expanding on other topics of interest surrounding web design and building a great world.
A well structured web site will offer access to all visitors, including the ability to easily access information throughout each page. By offering quicklinks to sections of the page, visitors using alternative browsers such as a Screen Reader or a text based browser can easily get to the meat of your page.
We recommend a minimum of three key sections on each web page. They include:
- your main navigation
- your main content
- your secondary navigation
This navigation can be most easily achieved through the use of an unordered list and CSS. Here is an excellent article on skip navigation by renowned accessibility expert Jim Thatcher.
Once you have the list in place at the top of the page, you’ll need to place anchors through the page and the final step is to choose how to style these links and then you’re done. Make sure to read our Web Site Basics article with 25 items that create a solid foundation to your web site.
Well, it’s been quite a while, but we’re picking up where we left off a few months back.
Our next point in our series on 25 items that make a quality web site is that each page should have an author declared within the meta information.
Inside the head tags simply add this tag
<META NAME=”author” CONTENT=”Author Information”>
While this more an item of politeness. In a well structured document identifying the author of the document allows folks looking for specific information a place to begin with and notes who holds the rights to the documents.
