Web Optimization Archives - AwardSpace.com https://www.awardspace.com/tag/web-optimization/ Free Web Hosting with PHP, MySQL, Email Sending, No Ads Wed, 13 Mar 2024 14:02:45 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 https://www.awardspace.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/awardspace-favicon-120x120.png Web Optimization Archives - AwardSpace.com https://www.awardspace.com/tag/web-optimization/ 32 32 CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) https://www.awardspace.com/glossary/css-cascading-style-sheets/ Wed, 20 Sep 2023 07:31:28 +0000 https://www.awardspace.com/?p=68789 World Wide Web is a subgroup of the Internet that involves websites and webpages that users can access via a web browser. Since all sites and pages are text documents, they need to be written in descriptive language that specifies the page structure. This language is called HTML (hypertext markup language). HTML makes the page […]

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]]> World Wide Web is a subgroup of the Internet that involves websites and webpages that users can access via a web browser. Since all sites and pages are text documents, they need to be written in descriptive language that specifies the page structure. This language is called HTML (hypertext markup language).

HTML makes the page only readable without explicit styling. To control exactly how HTML elements look in the browser using whatever design you want. This is where CSS (Cascading Style Sheet) comes in.

 

What is CSS (Cascading Style Sheet)?

CSS is a style sheet language used for formatting content in HTML web pages. So it’s important to remember that CSS is not a programming language. Cascading style sheet is a design language that makes a website look more appealing than just pieces of text.

This is a design tool that often is combined with HTML or XHTML markup languages and requires creativity.

 

Where can we use CSS?

With CSS you can change the appearance and formatting of text, tables, and other elements separately from the content itself.

Cascading Style Sheet can be used to change the color and size of headings and links and even to create effects such as animation.

Based on where the CSS is added in the HTML document there are three types: Internal, External, and Inline. So in order to know which one is best to style our web pages with, we need to tell them apart.

 

What are the types of CSS?

 

Internal CSS (Cascading Style Sheet)

Internal CSS is also called embedded CSS. This type of cascading sheet is when the CSS code is inserted in the <head> section of the HTML document. This defines the style for a single page. This CSS style will be reloaded every time the website is refreshed. For example, you can use an internal style to assign colors to paragraphs on your page.

 

External CSS (Cascading Style Sheet)

With this type, everything is done externally on a .css file. This means you can do all the styling on a separate file, called a stylesheet. Then you have to create a link to this CSS stylesheet and put it in the <head> section of your document. You can apply the CSS to any page that you want. This helps you define the style for many HTML pages. As a result, by manipulating only one file you can change the whole look of the website.

 

Inline style (Cascading Style Sheet)

This style works with specific elements that have the <style> tag. So we can apply a unique style to a single HTML element. This makes it unfit for use on large-scale projects. In this case, we’ll have to search in HTML code to pick out where we’ve used inline styling.

 

Using CSS improves the page speed and the user experience.

CSS is a rule-based language. This allows you to use one CSS rule and apply it to all appearances of a certain tag within the HTML document. Which improves site speed. Also, it’s easy to improve user experience as CSS allows user-friendly formatting. You can apply specific formatting rules and styles to multiply pages with one string of code.

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]]> Breadcrumb https://www.awardspace.com/glossary/breadcrumb/ Mon, 18 Sep 2023 14:07:55 +0000 https://www.awardspace.com/?p=68441 On websites that have a lot of pages, users need navigation to find their way around more easily. Like the breadcrumbs in the fairy tale “Hansel and Gretel,” they allow the users to retrace their steps back to where they started.   What is a breadcrumb? A “breadcrumb” (or breadcrumb trail) is a small text […]

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]]> On websites that have a lot of pages, users need navigation to find their way around more easily. Like the breadcrumbs in the fairy tale “Hansel and Gretel,” they allow the users to retrace their steps back to where they started.

 

What is a breadcrumb?

A “breadcrumb” (or breadcrumb trail) is a small text path, located at the top of a page that shows the user’s location on a website or web application. Breadcrumbs are designed to make navigation more easy for the users. By providing a simple way to view the directory path of the current folder or page on the website. Each of the directories that shows the website hierarchy is clickable, providing quick access to parent folders.

 

Why breadcrumbs are important?

Breadcrumbs have a path-based structure and are important navigation marks to fully optimize a website. These elements not only help users navigate the website but also help Google understand how the site is structured.

There are several types of breadcrumbs depending on what elements are included on the breadcrumb tail.

 

What are the types of breadcrumbs?

 

Hierarchy-based breadcrumbs

These types of breadcrumbs indicate where the user is in a page structure and how many steps can he take to return to the main page.

 

Path-based breadcrumbs

Path-based breadcrumbs are also called history-based breadcrumbs. These navigation marks show the actual pages the user has visited. They are rarely used as the “back” button does the same job.

 

Attribute-based breadcrumbs

These breadcrumbs display the filters or attributes that a user selected on a previous page. We can use them most commonly on e-commerce websites. These elements show which category or filter the user clicked on or the attributes that the user has selected on a particular page. Also, we can implement attribute-based breadcrumbs as tags for categorizing blog posts and types of content.

A great way to improve user experience is when we add breadcrumbs. These navigation elements make it easier for site visitors and search engines to better understand the website’s structure. Not only that but also the connections with on-site content. Breadcrumbs direct users to other pages on the website and help them stay active decreasing the bounce rate.

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