[WSG] Marking up news

2009-02-19 Thread Essential eBiz Solutions
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Re: [WSG] Marking up news

2009-02-19 Thread Christian Snodgrass
I'd suggest this as well, normally. However, it seems like how this is going to be used is to provide a list of news articles, and since it's a list it makes sense to use a list element for it's markup. At least that's what I inferred from the initial examples. Mike at Green-Beast.com wrote:

Re: [WSG] Marking up news

2009-02-19 Thread Mike at Green-Beast.com
i would not suggest to use h1 for our news cause what benefit I agree. That was just for demonstration purposes... I would certainly suggest using whatever heading would be appropriate and semantic. I didn't have that info so I created a new document and dropped the news in just so I could

RE: [WSG] Marking up news

2009-02-19 Thread Essential eBiz Solutions
Hi, it is going to be a list of news events and will hopefully when I figure it out print the info to RSS that's why I was thinking of the DL so it's just a list of some events rather that full news? Hope that makes sense -Original Message- From: li...@webstandardsgroup.org

Re: [WSG] Marking up news

2009-02-19 Thread David Dorward
Kay in t Veen - Gmail wrote: i would not suggest to use h1 for our news cause what benefit would a h1 have on the keywords our news. Think about page structure first, and what search engines think about it second. further a news module is a sub part of your site and never use h1 for that and

Re: [WSG] Marking up news

2009-02-19 Thread Mike at Green-Beast.com
Hi Essential, Hi, it is going to be a list of news events and will hopefully when I figure it out print the info to RSS that's why I was thinking of the DL so it's just a list of some events rather that full news? I'm sorry, I guess I don't realy understand what you're after. I mean I

[WSG] URL naming best practice guide? [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

2009-02-19 Thread Chris Vickery
Does anyone know where I could find a best practice guide to naming URLs? We're trying to keep our URLs descriptive like... www.whatever.com/news/events/index.html ...but not like this... www.whatever.com/news articles/Events Sent from m...@me.com/my.file I need it to pass on to a manager.

Re: [WSG] Marking up news

2009-02-19 Thread Mike at Green-Beast.com
Hi Essential, h4News Title/h4 (h1, h2 and h3 are already being used within the page for heading and sub heading) p class=news_dateNews Date/p p class=news_contentNews Content/p That works. You might be able to get rid of that what-will-be-repetitive news_content class if you wrap the thing

Re: [WSG] Marking up news

2009-02-19 Thread Mike at Green-Beast.com
Don't avoid using a headline level just because it's already being used within the page. Good call, Paul. Respectfully, Mike Cherim *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe:

Re: [WSG] Marking up news

2009-02-19 Thread Nathan de Vries
On 20/02/2009, at 7:05 AM, Essential eBiz Solutions wrote: I'm making a news plugin but I'm un-sure what the best/most accesible way is to mark it up? Try http://microformats.org/wiki/hatom#Examples_in_the_wild Cheers, Nathan de Vries

Re: [WSG] URL naming best practice guide? [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

2009-02-19 Thread Chris F.A. Johnson
On Fri, 20 Feb 2009, Chris Vickery wrote: Does anyone know where I could find a best practice guide to naming URLs? We're trying to keep our URLs descriptive like... www.whatever.com/news/events/index.html but not like this... www.whatever.com/news articles/Events Sent from

RE: [WSG] URL naming best practice guide? [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

2009-02-19 Thread Chris Vickery
Thanks. Not really what I'm looking for. I know the principals myself... I'm looking for a site, a guide... something more substantive or with some authority. If it's in relatively plain English, even better. It's for my manager. -Original Message- From: li...@webstandardsgroup.org

Re: [WSG] URL naming best practice guide? [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

2009-02-19 Thread Cal Wilson
Hi Chris, The following link may be of interest to you: http://www.w3.org/Provider/Style/URI HTH cal. On 20/02/2009, at 2:25 PM, Chris Vickery wrote: Thanks. Not really what I'm looking for. I know the principals myself... I'm looking for a site, a guide... something more substantive or