Lorelle VanFossen is one of my favorite WordPress authors. Today he talks about What is a Properly Formed Link?
Lots of web writers will just get lazy, and post the address, instead of a good clear link to the other page, especially if it is on another site. This isn’t clear to the reader, doesn’t help the other site with SEO, and just looks ugly.
So fight bad linking habits with good, clean, easy to use links.
What is a Properly Formed Link? was originally found on Access 2 Learn
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Walter Wimberly is an Assistant Professor at a regional college in Tennessee, teaching Computer Science in the Software Engineering track. He works as a student advisor, oversees curriculum changes, develops new courses, and manages the advisory panel.
Walter taught full time for about 7 years, before going back into “industry” as a full stack Software Developer for a dozen years. There he focused on web based projects coding in JavaScript/jQuery and utilizing the Bootstrap CSS Framework on the front-end, and coding in PHP, ASP/ASP.Net, SQL on the back-end.
Since he loves teaching, he taught as an adjunct web and digital media classes for eight (8) years, while working in industry, and has since returned to teaching full time.
He has been married for over 25 years, and is father to several special needs boys. As such, he is working on some projects to help others who have special needs to be self-sufficient, and support the care givers of those with special needs. Check out his Autism blog for more info.
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