Quoting Orson Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
Wade Preston Shearer wrote:
It depends on from what perspective. They are related and both
important in terms of the success of your website, yes, but SEO
standard for "search engine optimization" and has nothing to do with
usability. I website that is very well optimized might is likely to
more usable than one that is not, but you can have a very, very
optimized website that outperforms all of the others that is
completely unusable.
And for those that prefer English:
It depends on from what perspective. They are related and both important
in terms of the success of your website, yes, but SEO stands for "search
engine optimization" and has nothing to do with usability. Only the
search engines care about SEO. A website that is very well optimized is
likely to be more usable than one that is not, but you can have a very,
very optimized website that outperforms all of the others that is
completely unusable.
Take a couple examples from the CSS Zen Garden http://csszengarden.com/
Both of these have the exact same html, and thus, the exact same SEO.
White Lilly
http://www.csszengarden.com/?cssfile=036/036.css
Wiggles the Wonderworm
http://csszengarden.com/?cssfile=/099/099.css
White Lilly is clean and easy to use.
Wiggles the Wonderworm, while interesting, is harder to use.
I love SEO and CSS equally. The logical and clean structure of a
CSS-layout markup not only can help SEO, but also lends itself for
better accessibility. If you have good structure technically, good
structure of page content is screaming out at you. At least you are
more likely to actually THINK about it.
That being said, you can have usability as well. IMO, this is a case
where you can have your cake and eat it too. The effort is in trying
to get them all: good structure, content, SEO, usability,
accessibility, maintainability, etc.. I believe this is more than
possible, and should be the goal of every web site. They are
definitely all separate, and equally important. The thing I've learned
is that if you start off right with clean CSS-layout markup (like
CSSZenGarden does), then everything else is a lot easier to implement
right.
CSSZenGarden is a design exercise site. That's what the Wiggles design
is. Honestly, I don't care if it's usable or not. I think it's
absolutely brilliant, and very creative. I don't think he'd do a whole
site this way. He was making a point. I loved it!
-- Cole
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