Web pages are made up of block elements like div, hx (x being 1-6 like you would use on a outline, remember those?), p, tables and lists. Inline elements like table headers/data cells and span.
Mixed together you get a structured document that should make sense if you look at it like that outline I mentioned earlier. By using the appropriate structure you show the relative importance of each item which helps search engines in determining how they should rank you against other sites with the same words (over simplified and there are algorithms that change frequently on heading to other text on a page). If there will only be one poem on a page instead of a bunch of classes you can use contextual selectors for the major page elements. So that an h2 in the main content area would have the formatting you choose for a poem without requiring a class and an h2 in the sidebar would have another style based on its container. That's when it can get truly elegant. Cheryl D. Wise Certified Professional Web Developer MS-MVP-FrontPage www.wiserways.com mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 713.353.0139 Office -----Original Message----- From: Joseph Harris Thank you all for a fascinating discussion. I was early aware of the H value in SEs but hadn't appreciated the structure points. Poems will mainly appear on their own pages so h1 is going to be right for the title; class or ID will be needed because I use a distinct heading style and IE, Opera and Firefox all seem happy with it. The really big gain from the all css aproach is, I now see, that the SE can early be fed the main content of the page which gives a better chance of good rankings for appropriate keywords and phrases. I was just starting to understand the <p> tag and you have clarified its value further. So <div> and <p> are the major building blocks which are placed and styled by the css. <p> is also a content tag with <h> and <span> doing the special jobs with <img> of course. I am being drawn to an amazingly spare layout, and, although it looks a bit bare to me, I think it may well be very effective. Further sight of it soon. (I am quite impressed with myself, by the way, that, though I had much of how to get there wrong, I had grasped the fundamentals of how to make the basic layout ;-)). ____ • The WDVL Discussion List from WDVL.COM • ____ To Join wdvltalk, Send An Email To: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Send Your Posts To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To set a personal password send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the words: "set WDVLTALK pw=yourpassword" in the body of the email. To change subscription settings to the wdvltalk digest version: http://wdvl.internet.com/WDVL/Forum/#sub ________________ http://www.wdvl.com _______________________ You are currently subscribed to wdvltalk as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe via postal mail, please contact us at: Jupitermedia Corp. Attn: Discussion List Management 475 Park Avenue South New York, NY 10016 Please include the email address which you have been contacted with.
