Use of h1 tag

[gbruck50]

From what I have read it is best to use h1 for a main heading and the lesser heading tags, h2, h3, after that. On my personal website w ww.skytroo pers.org for my masthead I have Skytroopers with the h1 tag, Vietnam tour of duty with the h2 tag and D 2/8 1st Cavalry Division with the h3 tag. I like the way it looks but is that a problem, and if so, what would be a good way to change it? I am trying hard to get better with HTML and learn CSS. I have been studying the W3C info and reading books. I am using Microsoft Expression Web 3 some but mostly have been hand coding with HTML Kit as that seemed like it may be a good way to get into detail. I can include the external css file if that would help.

Thank you

[Wickham]

It looks good to me.

 

The fact that you've used h2 and h3 more than once is no problem.

 

The main thing is to use h1 as the first code for text in the page for SEO purposes, ie ahead of any p tags, but images for logo or a banner are OK in front of the h1 tag.

[gbruck50]

It looks good to me.

 

The fact that you've used h2 and h3 more than once is no problem.

 

The main thing is to use h1 as the first code for text in the page for SEO purposes, ie ahead of any p tags, but images for logo or a banner are OK in front of the h1 tag.

 

 

 

Thank you. Even though I have had my site for several years now, it was made using MS Frontpage and my knowledge of HTML was very limited. I do want to learn to create pages with compliant code.

[LSW]

Airmobile HooHaa!

 

I was 5/502 Airmobile in West Berlin in the Mid 80's to early 90's. No combat time, though I am a Veteran of WWII! (An occupation is an act of war, so WWII did not end until the occupation of West Berlin ended when Germany unified). So we all were awarded the Army of Occupation Medal making us WWII vets in technicality, then there is the Gulf War medal thing just about everyone got, I have it and I spent the war in Germany in a Hospital bed (shattered my leg in a training accident preparing for my transfer to Desert Shield)... Ah the Army & their Medals! You get the silly ones and not the earned ones. My Grandfather fought with the Michigan troops sent to Archangel to fight the Red Russians in the Russian Civil War and then finally reaching France he ran wire across the trenches of WWI for years and survived... but never got his silver star because his officer was killed after it was written up but before it was signed. Then there are our 4 legged brothers, the Vietnam era war dogs who were mostly Euthanized when the war ended. Good thing the K9 units today are considered FBI agents, or Cops etc.

 

Anyways, Cheers Bro.

 

Although not necessarily wrong, it is not really right either... Gray area I guess.

 

First most designers feel that the H1 is to specify the heading for that page, so if that page alone is Skytroopers then OK. You can look at it like a chapter title. Usually there is only one and it is specified by the page content.

 

A small number of designers feel that the Navigation bar is it's own and separate from the page and use an H1 for that too. So you can have two, but one is more common.

 

Multiple H2's, H3's etc are fine as long as they are in order The H3's belong inside the H2's, H4's in H3's etc.

 

However the"H" tags are headers... they head content. They are like sub chapters or sections in chapters. So The H1 is the tip off what the page is about, with or without it's own content. Then more detail is added with H2's and as needed H'3s etc.

 

So the more correct form from the specifications view:

• Skytroopers is the site name so should be a tag as the title of the web site. The sub text you use H Tags for, I would not as they have no content. The look you can get using Tags.
  
• What is the most important thing on the page? That would be the H1... Problem is they are about equal I think. The site is about the AirCav, but also about Vietnam specifically, so the Cav history could be the main and the "1st Cavalry Division" the H1. Bit the Vietnam Tour of Duty is really what the site is and the 1st Cav business just a quick history, so one could say that the Cav should be H2. The web site title stuff clarifies Vietnam so I would say make the 1st Cav the H1 so people have a background for the rest of the site. The bit about Vietnam and medals I would suggest you place in a highlight box. A separate container with a different background color and an H2 tag as it comes across more like a thought or quote and less actual content. I think the highlight would work well. If it is a quote, place some blockquote tags around it with maybe a quote graphic to make it visually interesting.
  

 

Then your H1 tags would basically be based on the Navigation, Reunion would be a H1, Vietnam Wife would be a H1 for the page etc.

 

Consider that many Vets who may visit may have failing eyesight or be blind, I know a Vet in Anchorage I met at the VA Hospital who was blind from possible Agent Orange. Vision impaired will use H tags as their primary form of navigating a site... so it is important to do it right.

 

Thanks for you service. Soldiers do not fight for countries or Flags, they may go to war for those things, but they fight wars for each other, their brothers, so that as many as possible may go home again.