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Tag vs Attribute Semantics

QnQ — Tue, 11 Sep 2012 02:09:27 +0000

Feel free to file this under the “Who really cares” label, but when it comes to professional web designers and developers advocating best practices, those involved in making recommendations to others on website optimisation (including SEO) need to be mindful of perpetuating bad information. Common-use doesn’t make for correct-use.

One of the most frequent mis-labelling of web terminology concerns HTML “tags” and “attributes”.

Rather than repeat what’s been well explained elsewhere, I recommend you start with Roger Johansson’s article on Elements, Tags and Attributes.

The W3C maintains a more specific definition of Elements and Attributes.

The reason for this article is to clarify – once and for all – that there is no such thing as an ALT tag.

This particular misuse is so widespread that even respected developers, search marketers and digital literati have been known to use “Alt tag” when they really meant ALT attribute (not that I’m going to “out” anybody here).

So what’s the harm? None really – this is about semantics and trying remove confusion from an already confusing subject for most people (website development). The greater clarity and respect for technical terminology – the easier it is to make consistent reference to.

QnQ Consulting no longer actively trading

QnQ — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 01:00:13 +0000

Effective January 9th, 2012, QnQ Consulting Pty Ltd is ceasing active trading in services for Website Optimization (SEO/SEM/CRO/WPO). Company director and sole consultant Mike Hudson has accepted a position as SEO Director for acclaimed search agency FirstClick Consulting.

As such, any requests for services will be forwarded to FirstClick Consulting for consideration.

The website QnQ.com.au will continue to provide related resource material, insights and to sponsor it’s sister-site sitespeed.com.au, as well as maintain hosting services for existing web properties.

Introducing sitespeed.com.au

QnQ — Fri, 15 Jul 2011 01:11:56 +0000

Speed optimization and loading times are a major factor in website performance. With that in mind, and with the ever evolving rate of new development in this space, QnQ Consulting has created sitespeed.com.au, a micro-blog of links, quotes and snippets from around the web that provide tools and resources for people involved in web-development, and website owners to measure site speed and rectify any issues.

Many of the links gathered on sitespeed.com.au will be collected and published here at QnQ on our own site speed resources page.

Zenith Internet is now QnQ Consulting

QnQ — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 20:00:07 +0000

Mike Hudson, founding director and lead consultant of QnQ Consulting has announced that the entity previously known as Zenith Internet Consultancy (NZ) is now known as QnQ Consulting.

Background

Zenith Internet Consultancy was set up in 2003 as a small website hosting and development agency that provided design, development, domain registration and SEO services to SMEs in the Taupo regionlocated in the center of the North Island of New Zealand.

In 2006, Zenith Internet merged services with leading digital agency Digithink Interactive, where Mike Hudson took on the role of Technical Director.

In 2008, for personal reasons, Hudson left the shores of NZ for it’s nearby neighbor Australia, settling in Melbourne. Over the next 2 years, continuing services under the operational control of Zenith Internet were migrated to the entity that has now become QnQ Consulting Pty Ltd.