If you want some tips on how to make the pages of your website more search engine friendly then this tutorial will help you.

This tutorial gives advice on the main things that you should not do when you are setting up your website.

Today more and more web site builders are using Flash and Java. While it may be fun to watch the creativity of our world-wide neighbors, the time it takes to download many of these pages is far from fun. This article looks at Java Applets, Web Graphics and Flash and talks about whats behind them and of which gives you some ideas on what choices you could make.

As we mentioned earlier, there has been an explosion of devices for connecting to the Web. As wonderful as this phenomenon may be, it places a considerable burden on authors (like you). No longer can authors write documents with expectations on how the content will be displayed. This is because each of these devices is a very different medium than the computer – the physical characteristics of the devices are different, the relationship between the device and the user is different, and the cost of using the device is different.

Earlier in this chapter, we talked about media groups. One of these media groups dealt with presentation to continuous and paginated media.

The second mechanism for associating style sheets with media types is to use the <link> elements media attribute, which specifies the intended destination media for the external style information.

In a previous chapter, you learned how to embed and link style sheets to documents. This same mechanism may be used to associate style sheets with different devices and media types.

One of the most exciting things about writing XHTML is that whatever you write can be viewed anywhere in the world, regardless of the type of computer being used to view the content. This means that whatever content you write, you had better be prepared for it to be viewed on any number of computers, television set-top boxes, game consoles, handheld digital assistants, and mobile phones.

The World Wide Web is a wonderful thing: computers all over the world - connected together - sharing documents and multimedia. In recent years, the World Wide Web has begun to grow beyond this comfy computer-based family of devices. The Web is now accessible on mobile phones, handheld digital assistants, and televisions.