Chuck Conway

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Pointers for Creating Semantic Web Pages: II

October 29, 2005 · 1 minute read

This entry was posted on Saturday, October 29th, 2005 at 12:50 am.

  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

Character Set Declaration

The character set, is what characters the browser is to expect in the containing HTML document.

For instance English uses the Latin character set, but so does Spanish and French. Russian does not. Using the wrong character set renders the page unreadable.

It’s better to use a more encompassing character set when designing multilingual pages.

Example:

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />

More on Character Sets: http://www.w3.org/International/O-charset.html

Favicon

Originally supported in Internet Explorer 5.0 a favicon is the little graphic seen in the address bar next to the site URL.

The term “Favicon” is derived from Microsoft’s “Favorites” or what Netscape calls “Bookmarks.”

Favorites + Icon and you get “favicon.”

Example:

<link rel="shortcut icon" href="favicon.ico" type="image/x-icon" />

More on Favicons: http://www.favicon.com