The Code Under your Hood
I want to start this blog with a post advocating clean, compliant source code. A Web page is just TV to many people. Who cares what the underlying markup looks like?
Well, that’s like hitting the car wash regularly but never looking under the hood as long as the car runs OK. On a Web site as with your SUV, neglecting the parts you can’t see has consequences.
Advantages of avoiding trashy markup:
- Faster loading because the browser gets it in one pass
- Faster loading because there’s less to load
- Faster, easier updating because content and style are separated
- Higher search engine ranking because spiders like clean code.
I developed admiration for clean, elegant code while studying for my CS degree in the Middle Ages. Today, I don’t care how much RAM, disk storage and bandwidth we all have to waste; brevity and elegance matter more than ever. That’ll be true as long as online content and functionality need to be updated.
Categories: Code, Rants, Search engine ranking Code, compliant, fast loading, search engines, web site, xtml
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Good points. I didn’t know all that. Hmmm, makes one think….