Enhance your web development practices by adhering to essential guidelines that ensure performance, maintainability, and user experience. This collection covers key aspects such as technology selection, site structure, error handling, and optimization techniques, empowering you to create effective and user-friendly websites.
In order to keep the content you add is healthy (doesn't have grammar or spelling mistakes), follow the below steps once you add a page:
Readability of URLs is important, so you should consider making a short URL. However, it is not just making the length as short as possible - it should be friendly.
The following structure allows you to keep your website clean of clutter:
When search engines or auditing platforms visit your site they expect a clean sitemap.xml. A broken or poorly formatted sitemap wastes crawl budget, hides new pages, and triggers avoidable health errors in reports.
Many times a website contains directories that don't have an index page, and this means a user navigating via the URL, see a 404 error. You don't want this to happen, so make sure you always have an index page in every directory, even if it's just to show the files inside it.
A stylesheet file (.CSS) should be used to dictate how the fonts, headings, tables, captions and everything else on your HTML should be displayed.
On large frontend projects with lots of components it's common to have issues with your CSS classes overwriting each other or conflicting. There are a few different ways to solve this.
Make sure there are equivalent closing quotations for HTML attributes. A small mistake of missing a quotation could lead to undesired results on a web page.
Displaying code on a website is an important aspect of creating developer-friendly content, ensuring the code is clear, readable, and accessible. When done correctly, it enhances user experience and helps avoid confusion.
You should understand the hierarchy and try to use the heading tags (<H1>, <H2> or <H3>...) for titles and subtitles.
You should only use one H1 tag on a page. Search engines weight this heavily and can get confused by multiple main headings.
The following are benefits of using heading tags: