Some Notes on Web Design

Here's a site design I like

http://www.veen.com/jeff/archives/000687.html

An article on search engine optimizing and web permanence

From the comments

Meta data is basically ignored by search spiders. Certainly by Google. It is useless because it allows authors to describe a page by something other than its content, which of course lends itself to abuse. (I developed a site for a guy who insisted on putting rougly 300 words in meta tags, despite my repeated insistence that this is junk that only serves to drive up his bandwidth costs.)

But most people have figured out the major factors in Google ranking already--meaningful words in the URL, PageRank of linking sites, use of header tags to structure the document, terms inside anchor tags, etc.

http://journalism.nyu.edu/pubzone/weblogs/pressthink/2005/02/20/abt_nyt.html

Reread Dave Pollard on Getting Things Done

http://blogs.salon.com/0002007/2004/12/23.html#a993

posted February 21, 2005