January 14th, 2004 by Jemaleddin Cole

As an adden­dum to my last post, I’d like to point out that I’m going to make an effort to start using links and link text that helps Google to make sense of the web. I’ve always tried to make my links fun, and like all design­ers in the IC-​Style, I use title attrib­utes promis­cu­ously. Hope­fully Google will start to deter­mine mean­ing from those as well.

I wish I could do more to help make sense of the web. As an exam­ple, I watched a pro­gram about motor­cy­cle builders the other day and went look­ing in Google for Billy Lane As of today, you don’t get the link to his site until the fourth page. The only thing I can think to do is add a cor­rect link in the cor­rect format point­ing to Billy Lane. Maybe that’ll help the next person who goes looking.

On a com­pletely dif­fer­ent topic that’s of inter­est to the one person who’ll under­stand what I’m talk­ing about, my office asked me to help redesign two of the pages I was asked to redesign four years ago when I was hired. Ugh. I know that’s not much to go on, but if you knew what I was up against, you’d all be hold­ing your man­hoods cheap.

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