> Someone has been telling you furphies, because (somewhat regrettably),
> none one has paid any attention to search engine issues so far. If
> anyone would like to propose goals for meta tags and such, or provide
> some suggestions on that front, it would be greatly appreciated.
It was just something I heard on Footnotes about search engines reading
top to bottom for search relevance. Honestly, I don't think Google uses
metatags.
> In fact, [...] regression now. ;-)
Fair enough, I stand corrected.
However, I just remembered the wonderful world of CSS @media, which
would be ideal for cleaning up/tweaking pages for various media types.
> Actually, lots of pages do, because the content is exactly the same as
> it used to be with the old design (only the layout was changed), which
> had hideous graphical headers on every page.
I'm just thinking about maintaining a well structured document. Every
non-HTML document you produce in your life has a main header, so why not
the HTML ones? I chose the gnome logo because it is in every page of the
web site. Naturally pages *should* in most cases also have individual
heading based on their individual purpose <h2 />
eg.
<h1>GNOME Development Site</h1>
<h2>gnome-vfs Documentation</h2>
> Not sure what you mean by 'pair' here, say again?
Sorry, a <dt/><dd/> pair.
The current structure is <dl><dt/><dd/></dl><dl><dt/><dd/></dl> when it
should be <dl><dt/><dd/><dt/><dd/></dl>. (I think this was done for
padding, but thats just a dd{padding-bottom:10pt;} .
> I think the use of id is pretty well justified in this context, given
> that every element with an id is actually unique. We use classes where
> there are multiple uses of that style, id when we are dealing with a
> specific page element. We could make more use of selectors, depending
> on compatibility, and the header needs some work as described above.
I'd say 9 out of times this is true (are there even 10 uses in the
page?), but I'm always thinking of the future (usually ignoring the
present), and who knows, you may need to at some point add a second
header, use a footer somewhere else, put a sidebar on the other side
(see my example page), and then its nice to have some reusable,
generalized classes already at hand rather than having to alter half the
site.
> Not the sighted leading the sighted again? ;-)
Only sometimes. We tend to be zealots over the whole table issue.
.Brian
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