Crazy_Fool - 2:38 pm on Feb 3, 2002 (gmt 0)

great post brett. each of those points there could be expanded into whole documents covering the "how and why" of what a webmaster needs to do.

what you've posted is effectively a good basic foundation that will serve everyone extremely well. those that require more than this will need to work harder than this on every point you have made.

i found WmW last summer and followed some of the points being made. the first site i built following the advice here went straight into 11th place on google for a fairly competitive search term. minor modifications have lifted the site to 5th + 6th place on google and top ranking in almost every other search engine / directory. what works for google works just as well for other engines and directories!

i've gone back and rebuilt a couple of other sites following the advice from WmW and again, top (or near top) rankings have followed.

thanks guys :)