Btw, the minimal valid header for *HTML5*:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8" />
<title> Your Title Goes Here </title>
</head>
I really love the simplicity of this.
Cheers
Gregorio Espadas
http://gespadas.com
On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 7:14 AM, Paul Collins <p.coll...@twentyfirst.com>wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm just curious to know what other people do these days with the header of
> their document? What is best practice for:
>
> - Good search engine rankings
> - Best charset for English text (utf-8, right?)
> - Do we need robots - all anymore?
> - Any Accessibility issues? (Can't think of any)
> - Does anyone bother with descriptions, keywords anymore?
> - Dublin Core metadata, is that a forgotten fad?!
>
> I'll show you an example of how I setup a standard page, please anyone
> offer what they think is best practice, or perhaps send any useful links:
>
> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "
> http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd";>
> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml";
> xmlns:v="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
> <head>
> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"/>
> <meta http-equiv="Content-Language" content="en-us"/>
> <title>TITLE</title>
> <meta name="ROBOTS" content="ALL"/>
> <meta http-equiv="imagetoolbar" content="no"/>
> <meta name="MSSmartTagsPreventParsing" content="true"/>
> <link rel="stylesheet" href="STYLESHEET" type="text/css" media="all"/>
>
> </head>
>
> Cheers
>
>
>
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