Hi Michael, Welcome to the group!
<link rel="start"... Refers to the first document in a collection of documents. This link type tells search engines (and other alternate browsers) which document is considered by the author to be the starting point of the collection. http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/struct/links.html#h-12.3.3 <link rel="section"... Refers to a document serving as a section in a collection of documents. <link rel="help"... Refers to a document offering help (more information, links to other sources information, etc.) <link rel="stylesheet"... Refers to an external style sheet. This is an important one. Style sheets are most powerful when they are separated form individual HTML files - as you can then edit one CSS file and affect any HTML file that links to it. More info: http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/present/styles.html#style-external http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/present/styles.html#specifying-external http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/types.html#type-media-descriptors There are many more link options. Full explanations here: http://www.seoconsultants.com/meta-tags/link-relationship.htm More about how these assist alternate browsers: http://diveintomark.org/archives/2002/06/20/day_9_providing_additional_navig ation_aids Thanks Russ > > I'm pretty new to this area of web development, and I'm finding it immensely > interesting. Thank you everyone for giving me the tools which I know are > going to make my sites better (once I get to grips with all the terminology > that is new to me). > > I looked at the sprintpcs site mentioned by Russ, and I'm puzzled about one > thing. There are a number of relative links in the head section. What do > these links do? Why have links in the head section? Here's what's in the > head of www.sprintpcs.com: > > [quote] > <.!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" > "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd";> > > <.html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"; xml:lang="en"> > <.head> > <.title>Sprint - Welcome<./title> > <.meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; > charset=iso-8859-1" /> > <.script src="scripts/common.js" type="text/javascript"></script> > <.link rel="start" href="http://www.sprintpcs.com/"; title="PCS home > page" /> > <.link rel="section" href="https://manage1.sprintpcs.com/Manage"; > title="Manage your PCS Account" /> > <.link rel="section" href="http://www1.sprintpcs.com/"; > title="Explore phones and accessories" /> > <.link rel="section" href="http://www.sprint.com/pcsbusiness"; > title="Services for your business" /> > <.link rel="help" > href="http://www1.sprintpcs.com/support/HelpCenter.jsp"; title="Help Center" > /> > <.link rel="stylesheet" href="http://style.sprintpcs.com/common.css"; > type="text/css" media="all" /> > <.style type="text/css" title="homepage".> > @import "styles/homepage.css"; > <./style> > <./head> > [/quote] > > Why? > > > > Cheers, > Michael Kear > Windsor, NSW, Australia > AFP Webworks. > > ***************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ *****************************************************
