Revised: April 24, 2000

Common Problems in Doing Web Pages

<ALT> tags for images - Should always have them, phrase should be descriptive; if the image is just being used for spacing, saying ALT=""

Email address - Include your email address somewhere in the site so that if people want to contact you, they can.  Make it a link, i.e. <A HREF="mailto:wpegram@erols.com">wpegram@erols.com</a>  Some people think this should be on every page

Images - If your page is supposed to include an image and you don't see it, check the following:

• If you are testing the page locally (not on the internet), an image you reference from the internet will of course not appear; although you could download the image and test it that way, you may just want to test the file once it is uploaded
• If you are testing the page on the internet and the images are files on your site, you must have uploaded the image files as well to the appropriate directory.  The directory structure on the server should match the directory structure of the website on your computer

Links - Links to other pages in your site should be relative, rather than absolute links.  Thus there shouldn't be references in your links to c: or a:

Order of items in a list -- Alphabetical, Chronological, order of importance as opposed to random

Tables - Consider use of table to present information in two columns rather than a list going down the page which requires vertical scrolling

<TITLE> tags for pages - Should always include a title - The title is the primary thing from the page that shows in search engine results so title the page the way you want it to be presented