by Stephen James Hall | Oct 6, 2026 | Accessibility, HTML, Information Architecture, Optimization, Retrieval |
Originally published 1/1/2015, rewritten 10/6/2026 A WordPress navigation menu helps people understand your website and find their way through it. Its links also give search engines paths to other pages and context about those destinations. The useful SEO work is...
by lucent | Sep 30, 2026 | Accessibility, Optimization, Web Design |
A link takes someone to a resource or location. A button performs an action, such as saving a form, opening a dialog, or revealing details. Choosing between them starts with what the person expects to happen—not with how the control looks. A control should tell the...
by lucent | Sep 30, 2026 | Accessibility, Browser, HTML, Optimization |
A modal dialog temporarily changes the boundary of an interface. It asks someone to pause the surrounding page and complete a focused task or decision. If the implementation only draws a box over the page, different users may remain in different contexts: some inside...
by lucent | Sep 29, 2026 | Accessibility, Optimization, Retrieval |
“Google found the page” sounds like a clear statement. It may mean only that Google encountered a URL—not that it fetched the page, processed its content, or included that content in its search index. Discovery is awareness of a URL. Indexability is technical...
by lucent | Sep 29, 2026 | Accessibility, HTML, Optimization, Retrieval |
Anchor links, often called jump links, point to a specific location within a webpage rather than only to the page as a whole. They use a URL fragment beginning with a hash symbol, such as #installation, to connect a link with an element carrying the corresponding id....
by lucent | Sep 18, 2026 | Accessibility, Browser, Optimization |
Someone opens a page and increases the browser zoom to read comfortably. The text becomes easier to see, but a fixed header now occupies much of the available view. Farther down, a form’s action button has been pushed beyond the edge of a fixed-height container. The...
