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As the structure of HTML is simple and it can be used easily but even the best HTML programmers’ commit mistakes in coding if at all they tend to develop some of the bad HTML habits. Here let’s discuss the bad habits that are related to HTML which will keep even the best HTML jockeys from obtaining the proper accessibility. So try to understand some of the HTML bad habits that are developed by most of us.

Sometimes, most of us might not have been using the style sheet to that extent to ease the confidence on the formatting of Font tags but as you get into the world of HTML, you will surely find out that this is a type of code that might work but to exact specifications.

#1 Bad Habit

The number one bad habit in the HTML is the improper usage of headings. The agents of the users can build a table of the contents just by reading the headings on the webpage. So, making use of the H1 trough the H6 in order to structure the information and it is important and using all these tags to increase the text can cause the problems.

#2 Bad Habits

Nowadays the transparent image has become the de facto work around by which the most of the web builders avoid HTML’s layout limitations. These types of images will however make difficult for the user agents in order to distinguish between ancillary images such as spacers and real content. Instead of using all these, just use the style sheets in order control the spacing, margins and many other page elements.

#3 Bad Habits

Another thing that should not be used is block quotes or the list containers in order to control the indention. These both are the workarounds that are commonly used by the web builders in order to indent whole pages or paragraphs. The main problem in this is that the software might interpret and also deliver the information in a certain way just because of the tag. So the text to voice reader may interpret the block quote information as the quote them accordingly when in fact you were trying to indent the paragraph. Again the style sheets will offer the best solution as they will allow you in order to separate the visual appearance and formatting of the material from structure of a particular page.

#4 Bad Habits

The other concern is the use of the absolute text formatting of the tags instead of using the relative ones. For example: the tags might render the same in any kind of browser and that does not mean exactly the same thing. The tag was designed in order to indicate the structural emphasis that will be able to take the form of visual change or audible change. So if at all you want to improve the tags, then do not ignore them. So you need to provide the alternative contents if you are creating the pages with some of the elements.

There is lots of focus on the Web design sites on how wide and your webpage should be as width is very much important to a webpage. Have you ever thought on how long should your webpage be? Conventional wisdom tells that one shouldn’t make a page longer than a particular screen full of text as readers will hate to scroll down the page. The content below the screen full is called as fold and most of the webpage designers have a belief that the fold will not be visible for the readers.

The study done by UIE has found that most users will be ready to scroll over the pages without a single comment.

Scrolling is not the only thing that hides the information

One of the most common arguments that are found against writing long pages is that it more often causes the information on the page to be hidden that is below the field and readers will not be able to read or see that. When you put that information on any other page will altogether will hide the entire information. In other words we can tell that, if some 100 people visit the first page and later only 50 make it to the second page and only 25 visits the third page and so on. The viewing drop rate will be very much high from second page.

Normally when a page is long, for the reader there will be a visual cue in the form of a scroll bar on to the right side of the page. In order to make their pages to look too short, most of the designers will change the length of their page’s scroll bar. If it is done in this way, people will not see that and will be reading the entire page. When you create small pages and provide a link to the nect page where you can give more information without telling the user on how long is the page. If the information is put in only one page, the readers will show interest and will scan the entire page.

Some thing block the scrolling

If at all you have long pages and want your users to scroll through the entire page, you have to see that nothing blocks the scroll bar. These are some of the elements on your webpage that implies that the page is over. The elements are
Lines of text links
Horizontal lines
Social media links or navigation icons
Short or wide graphics

Finally how long should be your webpage?

Your page length will ultimately depend on your audience. Like adults, children will not be having long attention spans and here if a topic is good to read, then it will be of no matter how long is your page.
So no article should or must exceed two printed pages
If your content is merited, you can put it one page and make your reader read the page and make them to go to nect page.