Life on the beach

I’ve been thinking latley about the importance of html markup being Semanticly correct.
being in croydon and working on a high profile web accesability has opened my eyes to this. I have always been an advocate of accessable websites, and always had an interest in SEO. On the train this morning I was thinking how the last decade has seen the web explode with sites that look great and work well but have realy quite poor markup behind the scenes. if you take away all the styling and dhtml and look a the pages underneath they are effectivley meaningless.

think of sombody with a screen reader ! what is a heading and whats not ? how many sites would benefit from having correct markup that a searchengine spider would be easily able to digest ?

I’ve been doing some work on a freind of mines online store, the heading for each page was formed using a style applied to a span rather than an H1 tag.

I’ve corected the markup and he is now enjoying notably better search engine rankings.

In short symantecly correct markup is important.