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Started by bjraines, May 21, 2007, 11:04:58 AM

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bjraines

May 21, 2007, 11:04:58 AM
I was hoping some of the gurus would share their SMF tips. I know this takes on many many forms. Just wanted to get your thoughts.

Dannii

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May 21, 2007, 11:31:52 AM
Backlinks
Clean HTML
Nice URLs if you have time after making SMF's HTML clean (which I doubt).
"Never imagine yourself not to be otherwise than what it might appear to others that what you were or might have been was not otherwise than what you had been would have appeared to them to be otherwise."

bjraines

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May 21, 2007, 11:38:12 AM
What do you mean by clean HTML? Do you not consider the Core theme to be clean?

Also I have been unable to get any of the nice URLs to work so far.

Dannii

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May 21, 2007, 11:49:35 AM
It's very unclean. Lots of disgusting tables and inline CSS and JS. And no headers!
"Never imagine yourself not to be otherwise than what it might appear to others that what you were or might have been was not otherwise than what you had been would have appeared to them to be otherwise."

bjraines

#4
May 21, 2007, 11:55:26 AM
where there is nothing wrong with tables or inline CSS as long as it validates. There is no optimal CSS for forums. Some people argue that the definiton tags could be used but semantically they are just as bad as tables. 

Using divisions would make it massive and use embedded divisions that are frowned upon also. So either way it is bad. Just the nature of forums I believe.

I am not a fan of js though.

Dannii

#5
May 21, 2007, 06:32:38 PM
Tables used for design are very bad. They waste lots of code, and confuse search engines. Using too many divs can be bad, but its much less likely. Search engines don't care if something validates. They care if they can't understand the page.
"Never imagine yourself not to be otherwise than what it might appear to others that what you were or might have been was not otherwise than what you had been would have appeared to them to be otherwise."

Ben_S

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May 21, 2007, 07:13:18 PM
Quote from: eldʌkaː on May 21, 2007, 11:49:35 AM
It's very unclean. Lots of disgusting tables and inline CSS and JS. And no headers!

Out of interest, why are you so bitter?
Liverpool FC Forum with 14 million+ posts.

Dannii

#7
May 22, 2007, 03:54:07 AM
I'm not bitter. It's just ugly legacy code.
"Never imagine yourself not to be otherwise than what it might appear to others that what you were or might have been was not otherwise than what you had been would have appeared to them to be otherwise."
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