Category: Old stuff

Normally, it is pretty common to use the ul lists. Ul means unordered and, well, most of the time you can say that items are unordered. But there are situations when you really could use ol lists, which means ordered lists. Especially when it comes to accessibility.

In this post, we style an ordered list to inform the user of his status in e.g. a registration process. This is a thing you can do also with divs & co., but it has something nice if done with ordered lists. Really. Continue reading Styling ordered lists

I’ve redesigned my personal website, not yet the blog. I’d by happy, if you could check out the new design and post comments.

First, I played with the thought of moving away from the blue design, but I came to the insight that blue is part of the websites identity. So now it’s still blue. It’s more a refining or rearrangement, than a redesign… well, there are more pictures on the home page now, and the text on the other pages is not just a “block”.

I want to redesign the blog over the next weeks, if you got ideas, post them here.

Everybody wants to optimize his site for search engines. Here comes something you should know.

A long time ago, there was some rumor about meta tags. Nowadays, it seems they are useless. Everybody could put something in there, so search engines don’t pay much attention to them. However, I noticed that you can still affect your search engine results by using the meta description tag.

<meta name="description" content="Your text" />

Your description will actually appear on Google. It’ll be shown if

• the keywords someone searched for are in the description
• the keywords are not found in the body, but in the title or URL
• you do a search using “site:” only

You see, the meta description can still be useful. Users and potential clients will benefit from a clear description.