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Style Guide [part 2]

The Bare Bones

There are certain elements that are shared by every page:

  1. A DOCTYPE and namespace declaration which are determined by the web administrator. Ours looks like this:
    <?xml version="1.0"?>
    <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1//EN"
    "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/DTD/xhtml11.dtd">
    <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en">
  2. A <head> area which contains:
    • a <title>,
    • a series of links to style sheets,
    • a link to a JavaScript file,
    • a link to an icon,
    • a series of relative links, and
    • a series of <meta> tags
  3. A <body> area which contains:
    • a banner or "masthead": <div id="mast">
    • a main content area: <div id="main">
    • the site's main navigation: <div id="mainmenu">
    • the page's menu: <div class="menu">
    • the page's footer: <div id="foot">
    • the hidden standards compliance message: <div class="ahem">

The highlighted portions contain content which will need to be edited on each page. For the most part, the pages are as simple as that.

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updated: Saturday, 20-Aug-2005 16:56:37 EDT


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