Rather than blatantly join blind-leading-the-blind SEO sect by making more web pollutant, why don’t we take a lot more challenging “contest” such as CSSReboot.
What is CSSReboot?
The CSS Reboot is a community event for web professionals and enthusiasts. Every November 1st and May 1st at 18:00 GMT, Rebooters from all over the world launch their standards based website redesigns simultaneously; bringing traffic, interest and a little respect to their sites. There are no prizes or arbitrary winners, just great exposure and the knowledge that we all participated in something great.
All we have to do is redesign our current website into somewhat beautiful website and adhering to webstandard.
If you have no idea what the heck web standard is, let me explain it to you in SEO manner.
- Put XHTML, CSS, and JavaScript into separate files. Not only you took advantages of browser’s cache capability (thus, load faster). Structured websites are easy to read by human. And eventually, by your beloved Google Robot.
- Imagine your killer resume. You only have one title, that is, your name, on it. You represent several relevant context in subheading such as “Educational Background” or “Professional Experiences”. The same thing happens when we build a readable website. We use HTML tag in respective uses. We address this matter as semantic web.
- Semantic URL a.k.a pretty permalink. Pretty permalink is a good thing because :
- It is easy to remember by us, human beings.
- It is the future. To RESTified your website, you need semantic URL. Imagine such snippet:
books = “http://yourbookstore.com/popular/chicklit”
book.each { |book| puts book.title }
So what it’s gonna be?
I see Deny Sri, Gage Sevenova, and Arif Widi are already in. It’s clearly that I don’t make beautiful web sites as they do. But heck, I’ll overcome my fear to be a brave soul and tag along.
Here’s my design preview. It’s done from scratch in just about 4 hours using Gimp. Bear with me.
Building website that readable, and hopefully lovable, by any human being is far more challenging rather than build a website so satisfy Google Robot.
So what are you waiting for?
Don’t be such a chicken sissy. Pick the right fight contest.
