Re: Numeric character references in generated content

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Eric Lindsay <NOwebmasterSPAM@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

In article <no.email-F73D3F.08200028012009@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
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Eric Lindsay <NOwebmasterSPAM@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
So I am going to have two h1, both identical, one at the top and one at
the bottom of the page.

Better would be to have two divs, one as header and one as footer.
Include your h1 page title and navigation in the header; include any
copyright info and navigation in the footer. Semantically, previous/next
are not content headings, and you should only use one level one content
heading (i.e. h1) per page.

Although traditional, I am not really seeing an urgent need for header
and footer divs. Sure, if I end up pulling the previous and next
navigation out of the h1, then a header div makes sense. However in a
diary type bog, a heading of "My Holy War Blog, January 2009" is fairly
complete in itself. I am not seeing any enormous merit in adding a div
just to help separate out minimal navigation.

The point is that navigation elements should NOT be inside your
<h1></h1>, since they are not the main content heading. So, if you
want your navigation grouped with your h1 heading, you need a container
to keep them together.


The footer div makes more sense to me. I do need somewhere to put
breadcrumbs.

Most web pages have these at the top, directly below the header. No
reason why you can't duplicate them at the bottom, but your visitors
will likely expect to find them at the top of your page.

Also, at the moment, my links to individual dates within
the month are at the bottom of the page. So that makes two navigation
areas to fit in. Plus whatever other boilerplate is needed. I am still
very uncertain where I want to go with this, which is why I am
experimenting someplace harmless like my diary.

[snip]

I am trying to avoid multiple column layouts with fixed numbers of
columns. I do not show advertising, so I don't need a column for that. I
want the navigation top and bottom, rather than at one side (almost
every previous page I had done until mid 2008 had side navigation). So
essentially I end up with one column. This let me put all my headings
across the page.

Search for "Ruthsarian Menus" - the code does involve some hacks to get
around IE idiosyncrasies, but the CSS includes both horizontal and
vertical orientations.
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