[pmwiki-users]SEO: Avoiding Headings in the SideBar

Bronwyn Boltwood arndis at gmail.com
Mon Aug 15 18:04:30 CDT 2005


On 8/15/05, Patrick R. Michaud <pmichaud at pobox.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 15, 2005 at 01:21:04PM -0700, H. Fox wrote:
> > Oh... I object to using "head" or "heading" since the whole idea is to
> > cause it *not* to be a heading!
> 
> No, I thought the whole idea was that it would not be a *document*
> heading (c.f. Crisses' earlier message).  The thing in the sidebar
> really is still a "heading", it just isn't a document heading and
> it doesn't generate <h1>.  Or do you have a better name than "heading"
> for those section-divider-looking-things that sit in the sidebar?

The root problem here seems to be that a webpage typically contains
more than just a document, but the W3C specs and guidelines don't
accomodate this fact.  A well-designed webpage by definition contains
site-related content in addition to the primary document, to help the
visitors navigate the site.  There may also be document-related
secondary content, like a sidebar for a magazine story, which is
really a document-within-a-document.  But there is no standard way to
mark these things as such, so that browsers know what they are and
what to do with them.  What a pity that there isn't!

Bronwyn




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