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neuromuteApr 30, 2007
Nice call on the H1... a lot of bloggers miss that, while people who build pages from hand never do.
Closed AccountApr 30, 2007
Semitic web design:An old design technique, first made popular by Shem, one of the three sons of Noah in the Bible.<a class="user" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semitic">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semitic</a>Don't confuse with semantic web design, thats a whole different ball game.
gtfbfanApr 30, 2007Submitter
Rickmans, the only humans who see markup directly are those who view the source, so I'm not quite sure what you're talking about there. Why don't you try reading any of the articles on that site? I think you'll find them all to be extremely effective and pertinent for "actual human visitors."
noisymimeApr 30, 2007
Thankyou! I did a year of postgrad research on the semantic web (Probably not the best topic in hindsight) and someone sticking a bunch of info in tags and calling it the semantic web is just showing ignorance.
kaserproApr 30, 2007
IndeedThe semantic web doesn't exist yet. However its sound advice
csarvenApr 30, 2007
“definitive guide..” ?This article hardly touches the boundaries of writing proper semantic markup. The reader (including the article author) should be aware of a few things as a starting point:* Semantic markup is in concern with using the correct HTML element that best describes the content within.* There are no semantic improvements as far as using XHTML over HTML.* Do not tweak your code to cater a specific search engine. Think as if there are no search engines and write up your site in a way that will require minimal amount of maintenance and have the information surpass the external requirements.* Use only the essential elements in your HTML and remove all code geared for presentation and place them in a stylesheet
clickfireMay 8, 2007
tags in the WordPress sidebar headlines do seem strange. Nice article.