Category Archives: Best Practices

Why URL design matters in email

Posted on March 30, 2007 by Mike Schinkel

I’ve long believed email provides one of the better justifications for good URL design. Having a well designed URL structure inspires a user to have faith in a site’s URL integrity making it more likely then will email a URL … Continue reading →

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URL Quote #2: Think about your website’s “public face.”

Posted on March 3, 2007 by Mike Schinkel

“…one should take an hour or so and really think about their website’s ‘public face.’” -Scott Hanselman on “A Website’s Public Face“

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Best Practice: Always ID your Heading Tags

Posted on January 18, 2007 by Mike Schinkel

Here’s a simple best practice. Always ID your heading tags! For example, if you’ve got an <h2> element, be sure to make it <h2 id=”some-heading”>. IDing heading tags is especially important on long documents. Why? Because if you don’t, someone … Continue reading →

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