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Kevin Potts

"Web Design and Marketing Solutions for Business Websites"

This helps organize tab index values and allows for plenty of headroom when adding
more links. If a page contains a search box, the first tab index should always jump to the
input field.
Forms and tables
Standard, out-of-the-box HTML offers a host of tags and attributes, yet many of the minor
tags are forgotten about in day-to-day development, even when they offer tremendous
semantic value. For instance, forms comprise a critical facet of the Web??”allowing the visitor
to instigate communication??”yet are rarely written with proper HTML. Similarly, many
of the markup nuances that describe tabular data were lost to the overwhelming abuse of
and when it was in vogue to build pages using tables for structure.
The more accurately and effectively the correct HTML tags are used in the correct situations,
the more meaningful the data becomes. And the better you can semantically
describe the contents of a web document, the more accessible it becomes. And the more
accessible your web pages, the more awesome you become.
Forms
Just about every corporate site employs forms, if only on the contact page to collect visitor
inquiries.


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