Sometime around 25/3/09 (at 02:57 -0400) Thomas said:
I want a clear definition of the h1,
h2, h3 tag, because this definition is extremely
important for google and others ranking.
H tags, or ‘header’ tags, are used to mark up paragraphs of text so
that they’re flagged as being header info rather than just more body
copy. In other words, they’re more important in some way,
semantically speaking. Using them appropriately is important for SEO
(search engine optimisation), but the trouble is that Times New
Roman, Bold looks so UGLY on screen!
The answer, as you know, is to create customised style attributes for
these styles so that browsers will use your preferred type settings
rather than the old Times defaults.
You should have three h tag styles listed in your Styles palette; h1,
h2 and h3.
If you want the h2 tag to be styled so it is Helvetica 12pt (or the
slightly more predictable 12px), just edit that h2 tag to have that
setting: right-click/control-click the style and choose Edit Style,
or click the palette’s cog icon and choose Edit Styles.
Once done, select the paragraph you want to mark as being h2 and
click that item in the Styles palette list. Your type will take on
that style setting, and in the output it will be wrapped in the
appropriate h tags and that tag will be restyled by some CSS styling
code.
If you need to make a new h style from scratch you must type the
appropriate name (h1, h2, h3, h4 or whatever) into the Tag field in
the Edit Style dialog - AND you must delete whatever’s in the Name
field.
Now, making these things NOT bold takes a little more effort. Just
unclicking the Bold button or removing the Style attribute entirely
won’t do it, as what browsers need here is a positive instruction to
use normal weight type. Just not saying ‘bold’ isn’t enough to
un-bold the text in browsers because they assume all header stuff
should be bold.
In the Edit Style dialog, click the Extended button, then click New
to create a new extended attribute for this style. In the Name field
type
font-weight
and in the Value field type
normal
Now click OK right the way back out to your page. Your custom h style
will now display non-bold text in Freeway (because it has no bold
Style setting) AND in browsers (because you’ve added the font-weight:
normal attribute).
Any use?
k
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