I do feel this is all rather subjective and depends on what you're building, that is until you consider SEO; which I feel flies in the face of Web Standards
2008/6/3 Stewart Griffiths <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > For the title you should really switch it around so that it is more specific > to the page, and will be much better for SEO purposes. > > <title>Page title - Section Title - Site title</title> > > For the Logo & <h1> aspect, I would personally use the gilder/levin image > replacement technique, using within this the "Page title - Section Title - > Site title" combination within a <h1> tag. > > This way you get a fancy logo, plus the benefits of you keyword rich "Page > title - Section Title - Site title" combination to help boost your on-site > SEO. > > Stew > > > 2008/6/3 Paul Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> >> To throw another question in here, should the page title therefore be >> different to the main heading of the page? I thought the content in >> the page title should be as specific as possible for SEO, including >> the heirarchy? >> >> So, for example >> >> <title>Site title - Section Title - Page title</title> >> >> And >> >> <h1>Page title, section title or Logo?</h1> >> >> Once you have it in the title tag, does it matter whether you have the >> logo in a H1 or not? Should you have something different between the >> title and main heading? >> >> Cheers >> >> >> 2008/6/3 Darren West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> > My 2 pence ... >> > >> > <title>Page title - Site title</title> >> > <div id="brand"> >> > <p><img alt="Site title" ... /></p> >> > </div> >> > <div id="content"> >> > <h1>Page Title</h1> >> > ... >> > </div> >> > <div id="search"> >> > <h1>Search</h1> >> > <form ... >> > </div> >> > <div id="nav"> >> > <h1>Navigation</h1> >> > <ul ... >> > </div> >> > >> > >> > 2008/6/3 Rick Lecoat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> >> On 3 Jun 2008, at 07:04, Matijs wrote: >> >> >> >>> How about: >> >>> >> >>> <title>The Times</title> >> >>> >> >>> <h1>Homepage</h1> >> >>> >> >>> <h2>There's water on mars</h2> >> >>> >> >>> ---- >> >>> >> >>> <title>The Times</title> >> >>> >> >>> <h1>Financial stuff</h1> >> >>> >> >>> <h2>Redmond stock going down further</h2> >> >>> >> >>> etc... >> >>> >> >>> Where would one fit in a company logo? Wouldn't a background image be >> >>> best? And if so, where? >> >> >> >> My understanding of the <title> tag is that it is the title of the >> >> page, not >> >> the name of the site, and ideally every page should have a different >> >> title >> >> (at least from an SEO point of view) appropriate to its content -- so >> >> the >> >> above examples are not ideal IMHO. >> >> >> >> Re. logos as background images, that leaves anyone viewing the page >> >> without >> >> styles turned on out in the cold as far as seeing the company logo is >> >> concerned. Dan Cederholm uses a method whereby the logo is both a >> >> background >> >> image *and* a regular img tag, depending on whether you have styles on >> >> or >> >> off. That's my preferred technique. >> >> >> >> I just put the logo image in a <div id="logo"> and keep the H1 for the >> >> page's own title. >> >> >> >> -- >> >> Rick Lecoat >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> ******************************************************************* >> >> List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm >> >> Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm >> >> Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> ******************************************************************* >> >> >> >> >> > >> > >> > ******************************************************************* >> > List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm >> > Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm >> > Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> > ******************************************************************* >> > >> > >> >> >> ******************************************************************* >> List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm >> Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm >> Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> ******************************************************************* >> > > > ******************************************************************* > List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm > Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm > Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ******************************************************************* ******************************************************************* List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *******************************************************************
