Chuck Conway

In The craft

Pointers for Creating Semantic Web Pages

October 26, 2005 · 1 minute read

Over the next few days I’ll be posting on the following topics, starting today with the first two.

  1. DocType Declaration
  2. Title
  3. Character Set Declaration
  4. Favicon
  5. Hierarchal page layout
  6. Links (anchor tag)
  7. Images
  8. Tables
  9. Styles Sheets

DocType Declaration

Doctypes are an essential part of every web page. They inform the browser to the formatting of the HTML document.

For more on Doc Types: A List Apart

Example:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
 "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">

Title Tags

Titles tags are the single most important element on the page. It’s one of the first things seen when a page is loaded. Search engines attach a large amount of weight to title tags. It’s also what is displayed in the favorites when bookmarked.

A short read on Title Tag importance: The Importance of Title Tags in Search Engine Optimization

Example:

<title>Watson Farrell Design Agency | web design</title>