Design Coding - Poetic Prophet
Posted by admin | Filed under CSS, Code, Design, Fun, Uncategorized, Video
Roughly a month ago, Chuck; aka the Poetic Prophet/SEO Rapper, posted a hysterical and yet absolutely marvelous video about web design.
This post is just an ode to Poetic Prophet for promoting web standards. In case you haven’t seen it, below is the video and even lyrics, so you may sing along. Hope you enjoy it as much as I did when I first watched it a couple weeks ago.
Lyrics:
Your site design - the first thing people see,
it should be reflective of you and the industry.
Easy to look at with a nice navigation,
when they can’t find what they want it causes frustration.
A clear call to action to increase the temptation,
use appealing graphics they create motivation.
If you have animation - please use with moderation,
cause search engines can’t index the information.
Display the logos of all your associations,
highlight your contact info that’s an obligation.
Create a clean design - you can use some decoration,
but to try to prevent any client hesitation.
Every page that they click should provide and explanation,
should be easy to understand like having a conversation.
Create a site style you can use your imagination,
but make sure you use correct color combinations.
Do some investigations, look at other organizations,
but don’t duplicate or you might face a litigation.
You done, congratulations - start construction,
move into production - follow these instructions.
Your Photoshop functions - slice that design,
do your layout with divs make sure that it’s aligned.
Please don’t use tables even though they work fine,
when it come to indexing they give searches a hard time.
Make it easy for the spiders to crawl what you provide,
remove font type, font color and font size.
No background colors, keep your coding real neat,
and tag your look and feel on a separate stylesheet.
Better results with xml and css
now you making progress, a lil closer to success.
Describe your doctype so the browser can relate,
make sure you do it great or it won’t validate.
Check in all browsers, I do it directly,
gotta make sure that it renders correctly.
Some use IE, some others use Flock,
some use AOL, I use Firefox.
Title everything including links and images,
don’t use italics, use emphasis.
Don’t use bold, please use strong,
cause if you use bold that’s old and wrong.
You use CSS, you’re page will load quicker,
your client satisfied - like they eating on a snicker.
They stuck on your page like you made it with a sticker,
and then they convert - now, that’s the real kicker.
Make you a lil richer, your site a lil slicker,
design and code right - man, I hope you get the picture.
What I’m telling you is true - man, it should be a scripture,
if it’s built right you’ll be the pick of the litter.
Everyone will want to follow you like twitter,
competition will get bitter - you’ll shine like glitter.
If you trying to grow - your company will get bigger,
design and code right - man, can you get with it?
∂ meow
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