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From: John Foliot
Date: Jun 21, 2016 5:13PM

...ah, but the <title> element's value shows up in Search Engines... (and
is used when a user bookmarks a page)

This is why I usually recommend a titling scheme that goes from most
specific to least specific: <title>Joe Developer, | Left-handed Development
Team | Big Corp Inc.</title> - this way if the user bookmarks more than one
page at your site, they will "auto-sort" themselves (sort of); instead of
having 6-8 bookmarks that all start with "Big Corp Inc." the bookmarks will
indicate the reason for bookmarking first... (this is not a hard-and-fast
rule, but rather just some good usability/SEO advice)

JF

On Tue, Jun 21, 2016 at 6:04 PM, Olaf Drümmer < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
wrote:

> Right, and the <title> tag goes in the head.
>
> But how does the <title> title relate to the <h1> title, if at all? Which
> roles does <title> play? Does WCAG or anything else mandate anything about
> it? The <title> tag used to show up in the document window title, but these
> days document window titles are often gone (definitely on mobile devices,
> and in tabbed window browsers they have become pretty useless once several
> tabs are there).
>
> Olaf
>
> > On 22.06.2016, at 00:58, Thad C < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
> >
> > <h*> tags go in the body of the document
> >
> > Best
> > On Jun 21, 2016 2:59 PM, "Olaf Drümmer" < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
> >
> >> Speaking of "title" - what happened to the <title> tag? What's the
> >> expected/required relationship between a <title> tag and an <h1> at the
> >> beginning of a web page?
> >>
> >>> On 21.06.2016, at 22:34, Chagnon | PubCom < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
> >>>
> >>> 1. Since users often consider H1 the title of the webpage, it's a good
> >> practice to use it for your webpage titles. But not required.
> >>> 2. Since users consider H1 the title of a page or a major section, it's
> >> a good practice to not overuse it, and having more than one on a page to
> >> title major sections is ok.
> >>
> >> Olaf
> >>
> >> > >> > >> > >> > >>
> > > > > > > > >
> > > > >



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John Foliot
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Deque Systems Inc.
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