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Just a question about best practices and document markup. I've always used very basic semantic HTML to markup my documents. I'm just wondering if there is a good reason that the Garland theme uses H1 for the website name and H2 for the page title. I've always used H1 for the Page Title, and not had any heading tag on the website name.
What are your opinions on this? I'll probably end up changing the theme, but I wanted to make sure there not a good reason for leaving it as it is.
Thanks
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most likely. I use my own themes and use H1 for site name, then desend through h2 - h3 etc.
-Steven Peck
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-Steven Peck
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Test site, always start with a test site.
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what is the reasoning?
Is there some reasoning for this? Why would your site name be the most important feature of the page? Does this improve ranking of pages in Google?
I beleive that Blue Marine used H1 for the page titles. This is why it was confusing to me that this Garland theme would do something different.
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Read Dan Cederholm for my reasoning. I merely went with his recommendations. There are other theories about web design.
-Steven Peck
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Test site, always start with a test site.
Drupal Best Practices Guide -|- Black Mountain
-Steven Peck
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Test site, always start with a test site.
Drupal Best Practices Guide
Not What WCAG 2.0 Recommends
This seems to be the defined standard as far as I can tell - http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG20-HTML-TECHS/H42.html
Some discussion of it for D7 here - http://drupal.org/node/169912