RE: [WSG] Online shop package recommendations please.

2009-10-17 Thread EBS Admin
Try cscart over at cscart.com. It's not free but it's easy to work with and
easy to skin.

 

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From: li...@webstandardsgroup.org [mailto:li...@webstandardsgroup.org] On
Behalf Of Darren Lovelock
Sent: 17 October 2009 22:27
To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org
Subject: RE: [WSG] Online shop package recommendations please.

 

Drupal with the ubercart module - http://www.ubercart.org/ demo here -
http://livetest.ubercart.org/uc1/

 

List of features - http://www.ubercart.org/what_is_ubercart

 

Supported payment systems - http://www.ubercart.org/payment

 

Add the views module and ubercart views module for 'popular product' blocks
etc.

 

Views - http://drupal.org/project/views

Ubercart Views - http://drupal.org/project/uc_views

 

Darren Lovelock

Munky Online Web Design

 http://www.munkyonline.co.uk/ http://www.munkyonline.co.uk

T: +44 (0)20-8816-8893

 

 

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Behalf Of ja...@flexewebs.com
Sent: 17 October 2009 21:47
To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org
Subject: Re: [WSG] Online shop package recommendations please.

Magento is an option also possibly 

Sent from my BlackBerryR wireless device

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From: hed...@digitalessence.net hed...@digitalessence.net 

Date: Sat, 17 Oct 2009 21:34:16 +0100

To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org

Subject: [WSG] Online shop package recommendations please.

 

Hi,

I'm in the process of quoting a few ecommerce packages/websites and
currently looking at opencart (for a free and non supported solution) and
JShop for a more pro supported version. Does anyone have any packages that
they recommend?


http://www.opencart.com/
http://www.jshop.co.uk/index

I'm not requiring bar codes or EPOS integration so need to keep it simple.

thanks.

Hedley Phillips
Digital Essence

T: 01306 627 128
M: 07940 508 417
E: hed...@digitalessence.net


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RE: More than one H1? (was [WSG] Out of Office AutoReply: WSG Digest)

2009-10-16 Thread EBS Admin
I'm sorry but i'm going to put my 2 pence worth in. The site I build use a
H1 for the logo, then a h1 for a title further down the page, using the h1,
h2, h3, etc structure and Google seems to love those site the latest lauch
has h1, h2 and a h3 in the header and it's on page 1 already after being
launched 3 weeks ago. So in terms of following best practive, providing
clear text to screen reader and for SEO the use of H tags should be as the
W3C advises.

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Behalf Of Yuval Ararat
Sent: 16 October 2009 13:11
To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org
Subject: Re: More than one H1? (was [WSG] Out of Office AutoReply: WSG
Digest)


I am not sure that a page with multiple important subject does not exist. so
IA wise and semantic wise this is not a must. google wise it is.


On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 10:55 PM, Jason Grant ja...@flexewebs.com wrote:


Tim, 

Well done for reading the spec - it's always a must. 

However, Google came after the HTML4.01 spec and what Google wants we give
it - so the 'only one H1 per page' guideline comes from SEO best practices
as well as general semantics and IA best practices. 

So the spec does not tell you to use one H1 per page, but the spec is not
the be all and end all of guidelines.

Thanks,

Jason 


On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 12:32 PM, Tim White tjameswh...@gmail.com wrote:


On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 4:23 AM, Marilyn Langfeld m...@langfeldesigns.com
wrote:


...

 

H1 is reserved for the title of the page. In a document, at least, there's
only one title, while there may be many first level headings.
...

 

So H1 is, IMHO, not the first level header, but the T1, or main title of the
page. A logo is never, IMHO again, the title of the page.

 

Let's look at what the specification says; 

A heading element briefly describes the topic of the section it introduces.
Heading information may be used by user agents, for example, to construct a
table of contents for a document automatically.
There are six levels of headings in HTML with
http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/struct/global.html#edef-H1 H1 as the most
important and  http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/struct/global.html#edef-H6 H6
as the least. Visual browsers usually render more important headings in
larger fonts than less important ones.

 http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/struct/global.html#h-7.5.5
http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/struct/global.html#h-7.5.5

Nowhere does it say that H1s are for page titles or that there can be only 1
per page. In fact, the example shows two being used.

~ Tim


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[WSG] RE: More than one H1?

2009-10-16 Thread EBS Admin
Jason, 
Thats clearly not the case, if you read the WIA guidlines then is
advocates the use of multiple H1's, from an semantic point of view they make
sense and in terms of SEO the make sense because every site we've built uses
mutiple H1's and they enjoy page 1 results on Google.
 
The video that Tim has just sent in is by Google and they say to use
multiple H1's!

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From: li...@webstandardsgroup.org [mailto:li...@webstandardsgroup.org] On
Behalf Of Jason Grant
Sent: 16 October 2009 14:48
To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org
Subject: Re: More than one H1? (was [WSG] Out of Office AutoReply: WSG
Digest)


Tim 

To keep it really simple: 

Spec + SEO + Good IA + Semantics + Accessibility + Common sense == One H1
per page

Hope this makes sense?

Thanks,

Jason


On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 2:39 PM, Tim White tjameswh...@gmail.com wrote:


OK, straight from Google Webmaster Central: 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GIn5qJKU8VM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GIn5qJKU8VMfeature=channel
feature=channel
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GIn5qJKU8VMfeature=channel (video from
March 2009)

Tim


On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 7:55 AM, Jason Grant ja...@flexewebs.com wrote:


Tim, 

Well done for reading the spec - it's always a must. 

However, Google came after the HTML4.01 spec and what Google wants we give
it - so the 'only one H1 per page' guideline comes from SEO best practices
as well as general semantics and IA best practices. 

So the spec does not tell you to use one H1 per page, but the spec is not
the be all and end all of guidelines.

Thanks,

Jason


On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 12:32 PM, Tim White tjameswh...@gmail.com wrote:


On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 4:23 AM, Marilyn Langfeld m...@langfeldesigns.com
wrote:


...

 

H1 is reserved for the title of the page. In a document, at least, there's
only one title, while there may be many first level headings.
...

 

So H1 is, IMHO, not the first level header, but the T1, or main title of the
page. A logo is never, IMHO again, the title of the page.

 

Let's look at what the specification says; 

A heading element briefly describes the topic of the section it introduces.
Heading information may be used by user agents, for example, to construct a
table of contents for a document automatically.
There are six levels of headings in HTML with
http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/struct/global.html#edef-H1 H1 as the most
important and  http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/struct/global.html#edef-H6 H6
as the least. Visual browsers usually render more important headings in
larger fonts than less important ones.

 http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/struct/global.html#h-7.5.5
http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/struct/global.html#h-7.5.5

Nowhere does it say that H1s are for page titles or that there can be only 1
per page. In fact, the example shows two being used.

~ Tim


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RE: [WSG] RE: More than one H1?

2009-10-16 Thread EBS Admin
Okay so the justify, the first H1 is the title of a page which is to be
shown at the top of a page commonly used as the logo. The next h1 will be
the subject title i.e. Welcome to... so semantically this would require more
the 1 H1.
 
For accessibility which styles switched off it clearly breaks up the pages,
and has a similar effect for screen readers.
 
Hope this makes it a little clearer.

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From: li...@webstandardsgroup.org [mailto:li...@webstandardsgroup.org] On
Behalf Of Jason Grant
Sent: 16 October 2009 15:25
To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org
Subject: Re: [WSG] RE: More than one H1?


EBS Admin - Matt doesn't say to use multiple H1s on the page, but says that
you will not get penalised for using them (within reason) on a given page.  
Every site I ever worked on I had used only one H1 on and it still enjoys
being on first page of Google. 
My formula, hence, does not only say Google or only Accessibility, but all
of the points I mentioned. 
You say it is semantic to use more than one H1, but don't actually justify
your reasoning behind it. 


On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 3:02 PM, EBS Admin
ad...@essentialebizsolutions.net wrote:


Jason, 
Thats clearly not the case, if you read the WIA guidlines then is
advocates the use of multiple H1's, from an semantic point of view they make
sense and in terms of SEO the make sense because every site we've built uses
mutiple H1's and they enjoy page 1 results on Google.
 
The video that Tim has just sent in is by Google and they say to use
multiple H1's!

  _  

From: li...@webstandardsgroup.org [mailto:li...@webstandardsgroup.org] On
Behalf Of Jason Grant
Sent: 16 October 2009 14:48
To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org 

Subject: Re: More than one H1? (was [WSG] Out of Office AutoReply: WSG
Digest)


Tim 

To keep it really simple: 

Spec + SEO + Good IA + Semantics + Accessibility + Common sense == One H1
per page

Hope this makes sense?

Thanks,

Jason


On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 2:39 PM, Tim White tjameswh...@gmail.com wrote:


OK, straight from Google Webmaster Central: 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GIn5qJKU8VM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GIn5qJKU8VMfeature=channel
feature=channel
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GIn5qJKU8VMfeature=channel (video from
March 2009)

Tim


On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 7:55 AM, Jason Grant ja...@flexewebs.com wrote:


Tim, 

Well done for reading the spec - it's always a must. 

However, Google came after the HTML4.01 spec and what Google wants we give
it - so the 'only one H1 per page' guideline comes from SEO best practices
as well as general semantics and IA best practices. 

So the spec does not tell you to use one H1 per page, but the spec is not
the be all and end all of guidelines.

Thanks,

Jason


On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 12:32 PM, Tim White tjameswh...@gmail.com wrote:


On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 4:23 AM, Marilyn Langfeld m...@langfeldesigns.com
wrote:


...

 

H1 is reserved for the title of the page. In a document, at least, there's
only one title, while there may be many first level headings.
...

 

So H1 is, IMHO, not the first level header, but the T1, or main title of the
page. A logo is never, IMHO again, the title of the page.

 

Let's look at what the specification says; 

A heading element briefly describes the topic of the section it introduces.
Heading information may be used by user agents, for example, to construct a
table of contents for a document automatically.
There are six levels of headings in HTML with
http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/struct/global.html#edef-H1 H1 as the most
important and  http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/struct/global.html#edef-H6 H6
as the least. Visual browsers usually render more important headings in
larger fonts than less important ones.

 http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/struct/global.html#h-7.5.5
http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/struct/global.html#h-7.5.5

Nowhere does it say that H1s are for page titles or that there can be only 1
per page. In fact, the example shows two being used.

~ Tim


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RE: [WSG] RE: More than one H1?

2009-10-16 Thread EBS Admin
The way to wrap the H1 for the logo is not to wrap it around an image, the
fist H1 should be text with keywords for the page that is being represented
in a grammatical format, with clever use of CSS these can be styled up to
look like graphic logos but degrade for accessibility and provide a tool to
get the H1 as the first element in a page whilst complementing the
semantics, accessibility and seo requirements.

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From: li...@webstandardsgroup.org [mailto:li...@webstandardsgroup.org] On
Behalf Of ja...@flexewebs.com
Sent: 16 October 2009 15:45
To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org
Subject: Re: [WSG] RE: More than one H1?


Yes but my argument against putting the H1 around the logo is that the logo
is present on all pages and typically each site will be optimised for it's
brand name (e.g. Flexewebs) so no value in highlighting that.

I would potentially agree with you if you were arguing for putting H1 around
other content within the page, but certainly not the logo. 

Sent from my BlackBerryR wireless device

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From: EBS Admin ad...@essentialebizsolutions.net 
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2009 15:36:00 +0100
To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org
Subject: RE: [WSG] RE: More than one H1?

Okay so the justify, the first H1 is the title of a page which is to be
shown at the top of a page commonly used as the logo. The next h1 will be
the subject title i.e. Welcome to... so semantically this would require more
the 1 H1.
 
For accessibility which styles switched off it clearly breaks up the pages,
and has a similar effect for screen readers.
 
Hope this makes it a little clearer.

  _  

From: li...@webstandardsgroup.org [mailto:li...@webstandardsgroup.org] On
Behalf Of Jason Grant
Sent: 16 October 2009 15:25
To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org
Subject: Re: [WSG] RE: More than one H1?


EBS Admin - Matt doesn't say to use multiple H1s on the page, but says that
you will not get penalised for using them (within reason) on a given page.  
Every site I ever worked on I had used only one H1 on and it still enjoys
being on first page of Google. 
My formula, hence, does not only say Google or only Accessibility, but all
of the points I mentioned. 
You say it is semantic to use more than one H1, but don't actually justify
your reasoning behind it. 


On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 3:02 PM, EBS Admin
ad...@essentialebizsolutions.net wrote:


Jason, 
Thats clearly not the case, if you read the WIA guidlines then is
advocates the use of multiple H1's, from an semantic point of view they make
sense and in terms of SEO the make sense because every site we've built uses
mutiple H1's and they enjoy page 1 results on Google.
 
The video that Tim has just sent in is by Google and they say to use
multiple H1's!

  _  

From: li...@webstandardsgroup.org [mailto:li...@webstandardsgroup.org] On
Behalf Of Jason Grant
Sent: 16 October 2009 14:48
To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org 

Subject: Re: More than one H1? (was [WSG] Out of Office AutoReply: WSG
Digest)


Tim 

To keep it really simple: 

Spec + SEO + Good IA + Semantics + Accessibility + Common sense == One H1
per page

Hope this makes sense?

Thanks,

Jason


On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 2:39 PM, Tim White tjameswh...@gmail.com wrote:


OK, straight from Google Webmaster Central: 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GIn5qJKU8VM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GIn5qJKU8VMfeature=channel
feature=channel
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GIn5qJKU8VMfeature=channel (video from
March 2009)

Tim


On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 7:55 AM, Jason Grant ja...@flexewebs.com wrote:


Tim, 

Well done for reading the spec - it's always a must. 

However, Google came after the HTML4.01 spec and what Google wants we give
it - so the 'only one H1 per page' guideline comes from SEO best practices
as well as general semantics and IA best practices. 

So the spec does not tell you to use one H1 per page, but the spec is not
the be all and end all of guidelines.

Thanks,

Jason


On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 12:32 PM, Tim White tjameswh...@gmail.com wrote:


On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 4:23 AM, Marilyn Langfeld m...@langfeldesigns.com
wrote:


...

 

H1 is reserved for the title of the page. In a document, at least, there's
only one title, while there may be many first level headings.
...

 

So H1 is, IMHO, not the first level header, but the T1, or main title of the
page. A logo is never, IMHO again, the title of the page.

 

Let's look at what the specification says; 

A heading element briefly describes the topic of the section it introduces.
Heading information may be used by user agents, for example, to construct a
table of contents for a document automatically.
There are six levels of headings in HTML with
http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/struct/global.html#edef-H1 H1 as the most
important and  http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/struct/global.html#edef-H6 H6
as the least. Visual browsers usually render more important headings in
larger fonts than less important ones.

 http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/struct/global.html#h-7.5.5
http://www.w3

RE: [WSG] RE: More than one H1?

2009-10-16 Thread EBS Admin
No but you can wrap MiniClip - Providers of Miniature Clips for Business.

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From: li...@webstandardsgroup.org [mailto:li...@webstandardsgroup.org] On
Behalf Of Jason Grant
Sent: 16 October 2009 16:00
To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org
Subject: Re: [WSG] RE: More than one H1?


That's only relevant if your site has a keyword in the logo (e.g. Free
Online Games), where each of the words is a form of a keyword, while if your
site is called MiniClip, there is not much point in wrapping H1 around it. 


On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 3:52 PM, EBS Admin
ad...@essentialebizsolutions.net wrote:


The way to wrap the H1 for the logo is not to wrap it around an image, the
fist H1 should be text with keywords for the page that is being represented
in a grammatical format, with clever use of CSS these can be styled up to
look like graphic logos but degrade for accessibility and provide a tool to
get the H1 as the first element in a page whilst complementing the
semantics, accessibility and seo requirements.

  _  

From: li...@webstandardsgroup.org [mailto:li...@webstandardsgroup.org] On
Behalf Of ja...@flexewebs.com
Sent: 16 October 2009 15:45 

To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org
Subject: Re: [WSG] RE: More than one H1?


Yes but my argument against putting the H1 around the logo is that the logo
is present on all pages and typically each site will be optimised for it's
brand name (e.g. Flexewebs) so no value in highlighting that.

I would potentially agree with you if you were arguing for putting H1 around
other content within the page, but certainly not the logo. 

Sent from my BlackBerryR wireless device

  _  

From: EBS Admin ad...@essentialebizsolutions.net 
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2009 15:36:00 +0100
To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org
Subject: RE: [WSG] RE: More than one H1?

Okay so the justify, the first H1 is the title of a page which is to be
shown at the top of a page commonly used as the logo. The next h1 will be
the subject title i.e. Welcome to... so semantically this would require more
the 1 H1.
 
For accessibility which styles switched off it clearly breaks up the pages,
and has a similar effect for screen readers.
 
Hope this makes it a little clearer.

  _  

From: li...@webstandardsgroup.org [mailto:li...@webstandardsgroup.org] On
Behalf Of Jason Grant
Sent: 16 October 2009 15:25
To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org
Subject: Re: [WSG] RE: More than one H1?


EBS Admin - Matt doesn't say to use multiple H1s on the page, but says that
you will not get penalised for using them (within reason) on a given page.  
Every site I ever worked on I had used only one H1 on and it still enjoys
being on first page of Google. 
My formula, hence, does not only say Google or only Accessibility, but all
of the points I mentioned. 
You say it is semantic to use more than one H1, but don't actually justify
your reasoning behind it. 


On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 3:02 PM, EBS Admin
ad...@essentialebizsolutions.net wrote:


Jason, 
Thats clearly not the case, if you read the WIA guidlines then is
advocates the use of multiple H1's, from an semantic point of view they make
sense and in terms of SEO the make sense because every site we've built uses
mutiple H1's and they enjoy page 1 results on Google.
 
The video that Tim has just sent in is by Google and they say to use
multiple H1's!

  _  

From: li...@webstandardsgroup.org [mailto:li...@webstandardsgroup.org] On
Behalf Of Jason Grant
Sent: 16 October 2009 14:48
To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org 

Subject: Re: More than one H1? (was [WSG] Out of Office AutoReply: WSG
Digest)


Tim 

To keep it really simple: 

Spec + SEO + Good IA + Semantics + Accessibility + Common sense == One H1
per page

Hope this makes sense?

Thanks,

Jason


On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 2:39 PM, Tim White tjameswh...@gmail.com wrote:


OK, straight from Google Webmaster Central: 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GIn5qJKU8VM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GIn5qJKU8VMfeature=channel
feature=channel
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GIn5qJKU8VMfeature=channel (video from
March 2009)

Tim


On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 7:55 AM, Jason Grant ja...@flexewebs.com wrote:


Tim, 

Well done for reading the spec - it's always a must. 

However, Google came after the HTML4.01 spec and what Google wants we give
it - so the 'only one H1 per page' guideline comes from SEO best practices
as well as general semantics and IA best practices. 

So the spec does not tell you to use one H1 per page, but the spec is not
the be all and end all of guidelines.

Thanks,

Jason


On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 12:32 PM, Tim White tjameswh...@gmail.com wrote:


On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 4:23 AM, Marilyn Langfeld m...@langfeldesigns.com
wrote:


...

 

H1 is reserved for the title of the page. In a document, at least, there's
only one title, while there may be many first level headings.
...

 

So H1 is, IMHO, not the first level header, but the T1, or main title of the
page. A logo is never, IMHO again, the title of the page.

 

Let's look at what

RE: [WSG] RE: More than one H1?

2009-10-16 Thread EBS Admin
Hi Darren,

Maybe if you read what I wrote properly you would see that the
H1 surrounding the logo has different key words in it depending on the page.
I use text h1Site name - keywords/h1 as my logo and style it with CSS
and therefore each one is unique, semantic and great for SEO

 

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From: li...@webstandardsgroup.org [mailto:li...@webstandardsgroup.org] On
Behalf Of Darren Lovelock
Sent: 16 October 2009 16:33
To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org
Subject: RE: [WSG] RE: More than one H1?

 

To have the logo as a H1 on every page will most likely trigger spam filters
in the search engines as you are duplicating the heading throughout the
website, they should always be unique. Anyone advising to do this to boost
your page's keyword relevancy simply doesn't know what they are talking
about.

 

I cant think of a single reason why you would wrap a H1 around a logo as
there is no advantage to you, search engines or your visitors. Maybe if you
had a business directory where each listing had its own logo and alt text of
the company name then it could work there but not if there was already an H1
on the page.

 

The only case that you could possibly use two H1s on a page is if you had a
page containing two entirely different topics. But then again wouldn't you
just put this content on two separate pages? If your sites theme is to write
about lots of different content e.g. a general blog, then it should have a
main H1 and each topic be summarised using H2's and then include a link to
their own individual pages.

 

Why is the topic starter looking for reasons for why they shouldn't do it,
when they should be asking themselves what is their reason for using the H1
this way in the first place?

 

Did they see it on some 'SEO's website and think 'they must know what they
are doing so I'll copy them'? LOL 

 

Maybe they should listen to the SEO expert they've already spoken to...

 

I would have thought it's pretty obvious that you shouldn't do it ;)

 

Darren Lovelock

Munky Online Web Design

 http://www.munkyonline.co.uk/ http://www.munkyonline.co.uk

T: +44 (0)20-8816-8893

 

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From: li...@webstandardsgroup.org [mailto:li...@webstandardsgroup.org] On
Behalf Of EBS Admin
Sent: 16 October 2009 15:52
To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org
Subject: RE: [WSG] RE: More than one H1?

The way to wrap the H1 for the logo is not to wrap it around an image, the
fist H1 should be text with keywords for the page that is being represented
in a grammatical format, with clever use of CSS these can be styled up to
look like graphic logos but degrade for accessibility and provide a tool to
get the H1 as the first element in a page whilst complementing the
semantics, accessibility and seo requirements.

 

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From: li...@webstandardsgroup.org [mailto:li...@webstandardsgroup.org] On
Behalf Of ja...@flexewebs.com
Sent: 16 October 2009 15:45
To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org
Subject: Re: [WSG] RE: More than one H1?

Yes but my argument against putting the H1 around the logo is that the logo
is present on all pages and typically each site will be optimised for it's
brand name (e.g. Flexewebs) so no value in highlighting that.

I would potentially agree with you if you were arguing for putting H1 around
other content within the page, but certainly not the logo. 

Sent from my BlackBerryR wireless device

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From: EBS Admin ad...@essentialebizsolutions.net 

Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2009 15:36:00 +0100

To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org

Subject: RE: [WSG] RE: More than one H1?

 

Okay so the justify, the first H1 is the title of a page which is to be
shown at the top of a page commonly used as the logo. The next h1 will be
the subject title i.e. Welcome to... so semantically this would require more
the 1 H1.

 

For accessibility which styles switched off it clearly breaks up the pages,
and has a similar effect for screen readers.

 

Hope this makes it a little clearer.

 

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From: li...@webstandardsgroup.org [mailto:li...@webstandardsgroup.org] On
Behalf Of Jason Grant
Sent: 16 October 2009 15:25
To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org
Subject: Re: [WSG] RE: More than one H1?

EBS Admin - Matt doesn't say to use multiple H1s on the page, but says that
you will not get penalised for using them (within reason) on a given page.  

Every site I ever worked on I had used only one H1 on and it still enjoys
being on first page of Google. 

My formula, hence, does not only say Google or only Accessibility, but all
of the points I mentioned. 

You say it is semantic to use more than one H1, but don't actually justify
your reasoning behind it. 

On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 3:02 PM, EBS Admin
ad...@essentialebizsolutions.net wrote:

Jason, 

Thats clearly not the case, if you read the WIA guidlines then is
advocates the use of multiple H1's, from an semantic point of view they make
sense and in terms of SEO the make sense because every site we've built uses
mutiple H1's and they enjoy page 1 results on Google

RE: [WSG] Image links

2008-05-03 Thread EBS Admin
You could try this


img a:hover {
border: 0;
text-decoration: none;
}

Mat
www.essentialebizsolutions.net
www.av-iinc.co.uk


-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Dean Matthews
Sent: 03 May 2008 19:15
To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org
Subject: Re: [WSG] Image links

On May 3, 2008, at 5:48 AM, Stuart Foulstone wrote:


 As someone mentioned earlier you should also remove borders from the  
 image,

 a img {
 border: 0;
 }

This is what I was hoping would work but it doesn't. Explorer still  
shows the bottom border on hover. Interestingly it is not a problem  
with Safari which does not show the border hover on images by default.

To be clear, I have a 1pixel bottom border on hover (It looks better  
than the default underline).

The problem is to easily and globally prevent the border on hover on  
image links.

I have solved it with a border-style: none; class but it has to be  
applied to each image, which is a pain.




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RE: [WSG] IE7 - content not displaying

2008-04-22 Thread EBS Admin
 This is what you've got at the moment

 

 div class=clear-fix/div

  /div

  div id=page-footer-links

ul id=footer-links

  lia href=null.html id=footer-first-linkWisconsin History
Store/a/li

  lia href=null.htmlAbout Us/a/li

  lia href=null.htmlMedia Relations/a/li

  lia href=null.htmlGovernment Services/a/li

  lia href=null.htmlContact Us/a/li

/ul

  /div

/div

/body

/html

 

Try

 

  /div

  div class=clear-fix/div

  div id=page-footer-links

ul id=footer-links

  lia href=null.html id=footer-first-linkWisconsin History
Store/a/li

  lia href=null.htmlAbout Us/a/li

  lia href=null.htmlMedia Relations/a/li

  lia href=null.htmlGovernment Services/a/li

  lia href=null.htmlContact Us/a/li

/ul

  /div

/div

/body

/html

 

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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Likely, James A.
Sent: 22 April 2008 14:20
To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org
Subject: [WSG] IE7 - content not displaying

 

Hello, 

I am in the process of coding some templates for a client. Of course,
everything works well in Firefox, but IE7 is giving me some problems. 

The footer on the page is not appearing, but the space that it is meant to
hold the footer is present.  I know about the peek-a-boo effect for IE, but
this does not seem to be the case. Does any one have any suggestions on how
to fix this?

Example:  http://wisconsin.joekiosk.com/version2/research.php
http://wisconsin.joekiosk.com/version2/research.php 

Thanks for the help. 

James 

 


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