Comments on: What is This Page About? The h1 Tag. http://meganmcdermott.com/2007/05/01/using-the-h1-tag/ Web design and that Fri, 04 May 2012 23:55:22 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Megan http://meganmcdermott.com/2007/05/01/using-the-h1-tag/comment-page-1/#comment-6552 Megan Fri, 04 May 2007 18:44:19 +0000 http://www.meganmcdermott.com/2007/05/01/using-the-h1-tag/#comment-6552 It does bring up another question as to what to do with the page header in this case. If it's not the h1, then what is it? The article I linked suggests using h2 instead. When you think about a regular document, though, that's not what you would do in a word processor. The h2 is usually a descendent of the h1. If you had a document, like a report or something, how would you structure the header (and footer)? You would just have a header and footer. I read that they are proposing to develop some new structural tags for HTML 5 that would solve this problem. These would include tags for <header> and <footer>. The other common practice that I'm starting to question is putting the logo in as an image background. A logo is not just decorative - it does convey information. So then the logo should be an image rather than a CSS background. But we've still got the question of whether it should be wrapped in Hx tags or not. I don't think it really matters that much, to be honest. Search engines do consider headers to be more important text, but after h1 it's not as big a factor. Your site title would also be included in the <title> tags and elsewhere on the page as well so you're probably covered well enough. It does bring up another question as to what to do with the page header in this case. If it’s not the h1, then what is it? The article I linked suggests using h2 instead.

When you think about a regular document, though, that’s not what you would do in a word processor. The h2 is usually a descendent of the h1. If you had a document, like a report or something, how would you structure the header (and footer)? You would just have a header and footer.

I read that they are proposing to develop some new structural tags for HTML 5 that would solve this problem. These would include tags for <header> and <footer>.

The other common practice that I’m starting to question is putting the logo in as an image background. A logo is not just decorative – it does convey information. So then the logo should be an image rather than a CSS background. But we’ve still got the question of whether it should be wrapped in Hx tags or not.

I don’t think it really matters that much, to be honest. Search engines do consider headers to be more important text, but after h1 it’s not as big a factor. Your site title would also be included in the <title> tags and elsewhere on the page as well so you’re probably covered well enough.

]]> By: David Zemens http://meganmcdermott.com/2007/05/01/using-the-h1-tag/comment-page-1/#comment-6529 David Zemens Thu, 03 May 2007 21:05:20 +0000 http://www.meganmcdermott.com/2007/05/01/using-the-h1-tag/#comment-6529 Great article Megan. It was a very interesting read. I had been using the H1 tag for my page header for quite some time. What you write makes perfect sense to me, so I modified my newest site to use a DIV for the header and H1 for the post titles and page titles. Thanks again for getting me thinking... Great article Megan. It was a very interesting read. I had been using the H1 tag for my page header for quite some time. What you write makes perfect sense to me, so I modified my newest site to use a DIV for the header and H1 for the post titles and page titles. Thanks again for getting me thinking…

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