Logos on Homepages
In the context of the homepage, the image itself is part of the content, so it should be shown as an IMG inside an H1 – not a background in that H1.
On other pages, however, it makes sense for the image to be the background element of the 1st H2 (with the text of that H2 being offset out of view). The 1st H1 being the title of that page.
Anyone got any thoughts on this assertion?
5 comments:
If the H1 contains the same text as the logo, then the logo is the representation of the H1 in image format. I would have thought the H1 should be the same on every page - either containing the image, or image replacement.
On a homepage, the name of the site, is the most relevant heading.
This is not other pages, for example, if I'm displaying a list of my products 'Products' ought to be the H1.
I'm not sure why on other pages it should be in the first H2. Surely the point of the H1-5 hierarchy is that lower H's are children of higher ones. If your H1 is being used for the title of the page (as it should), then h2 and below should be used for subtitles of that page. The logo is an entirely separate issue.
I can see why things may be different on the homepage though and it would make sense for the H1 to include the logo and company name
@marmaladetoday Yeah, I'm beginning to think that outside of the homepage, the logo should just be an image or a paragraph with a background image.
There's a site devoted to the H1 debate: http://www.h1debate.com/
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