[Pro] Semantic Website?

Walter, I just thought of another question I’ve been meaning to ask for some time. When I changed the height of the Carousel in the RCB home page back to a fixed height of 360 pixels and selected hidden overflow the page height did not shrink. Instead, it remained at about 4000 pixels. So here’s my question.

Does page height matter in an inline constructed website? If so, how should I set the height?


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Page height does not matter at all in any sort of construction. Freeway will only write style code for the visible elements on the page. You can make your default page height any round number you like, and when you view the pages, they will stop scrolling at the bottom of the last thing on the page. You won’t have any big empty spaces below your content, like GoLive used to do.

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On Oct 4, 2013, at 9:17 AM, RavenManiac wrote:

Walter, I just thought of another question I’ve been meaning to ask for some time. When I changed the height of the Carousel in the RCB home page back to a fixed height of 360 pixels and selected hidden overflow the page height did not shrink. Instead, it remained at about 4000 pixels. So here’s my question.

Does page height matter in an inline constructed website? If so, how should I set the height?


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I am so late to this conversation - sorry.

I think the first thing to do is question whether the slider has any
semantic value.

They could be considered a series of self-contained content, like the html5
article structure, which would then support a hedline/paragraph content
development… though it’s more likely they are mere teasers leading to
actual sectioned content elsewhere. I tend to think of sliders or their
“slides” as list items, a list of things you can learn more about by
following the contained link to the real “article”. As such they should
disappear from the outline structure completely - except as a list which
may further be defined by whatever sectioning structure contains it.

I’ve been “away” working on a project but I have been trying to follow what
the two of you have been up to with this and I have intensely wanted to ask
what was expected from the whole absolute vs. relative positioning thing??
I get that in the absence of semantic structures, Google may just grab the
first thing it comes across in the document order, but if we instead gave a
more meaningful document structure - having our lone h1 element sectioned
in a way that drove Google’s attention rather than catering to the robotic
“first words” seen approach? I’m no more an SEO expert than the next
person, but I’m just not following your thinking on all this?


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Ernie, my goal was try to get at least some semantics from the Carousel.

Reconstructing the page with inline Carousel panes had the benefit of enabling some of the keywords to show up, when they didn’t before. But, I totally agree that the page needs to have a much better structure and better use of the h tags.

When I find some free time I’ll likely go into the page and fix a few things. Thanks for your help.


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