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Your Text: Insert Slimies » Insert UBB Code » Close Last Tag \| All Tags UBB Help	[quote] [b]hawkwind dave said:[/b] i guess it's a down to what the client wants. Customer wanted a scrolling news thingy, customer gets a scrolling news thingy. And at the end of the day, the customer is always right even when they're wrong. [/quote] That works great as a motivational poster in a grocery store break-room perhaps. In the real world, it's a more complex matter, and 'what the cusstomer wants' in regard to web design is something that needs to be shaped, at least in part, by the web designer/developer. The bottom line is that such a thing as this scrolling text is bad practice on pretty much every level. Clearly you are at liberty to use such things if you desire, but you must understand the negative effect such things will have as well. You may wish to do a search on something like "web design 101" for a ton of additional reference and study in regard to such things... [quote] [b]hawkwind dave said:[/b] the marquee at the bottom is helping the britsuperstore site rank for allsorts of product searches it wasn't ranking for before hand. That text is not for the site visitors to read, it's for the search engines. Hence being stuck in a marquee tag rather than the big dull list of keywords plonked at the foot of his pages for all and sundry to be offended by. [/quote] As you can clearly see, things like scolling text do a perfectly good job of offending 'all and sundry' ;) There are far more effective methods of improving a site's search rankings - again, a simple search for 'SEO' will return many a good article, study, and tutorial in this regard. Do you seriously think it wise to distract visitors to a website with something as mundane as keywords, scrolling across the bottom of the page, diverting attention from the actual content? [quote] [b]hawkwind dave said:[/b] I couldn't give a toss what tags w3c thinks we should and shouldn't use. [/quote] You don't care what the body that governs the standards we code by has to say about the code....? :confused: Don't know what to tell you then..... Loading...
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