Style Guide [part 2]
The Bare Bones
There are certain elements that are shared by every page:
- A
DOCTYPEandnamespacedeclaration 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"> - 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
- a
- 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">
- a banner or "masthead":
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