Using appropriate elements in blog posts

Most often, I see blog posts where blogs without use of appropriate elements such as headings, tables etc. So thought let me write some tips that one should consider while writing a blog post.

1. Never copy and paste from a word processing document or internet page
2. Use appropriate heading structure if your post has sub sections; for instance, ideally, your post name would be heading level 1 and uses

   <h1>

   so next level heading would be

   <h2>

   and next level to

   <h2>

   would be

   <h3>

   and so on.

3. If you insert an informative image; don’t forget to add text description to it. Sample code:

   <img src="folder/filename.gif" alt="This is a sample image" >

   if you use an image that is for decorative purpose, provide a null alt attribute. Sample code:

   <img src="folder/filename.gif" alt="" >

4. If you use a data table, use semantic markup including table summary, caption and associate headers. Sample table code:

   <table summary="This table consist of HTML elements and their use">
   <thead>
   <tr>
   <th> Attribute;</th>
   <th> Description;</th>
   </tr>
   </thead>
   <tbody>
   <tr>
   <td>h1, h2, h3...</td>
   <td >Headings </td>
   </tr>
   <tr>
   <td>a href</td>
   <td> Hyper link </td>
   </tr>
   </tbody>
   </table>

   and here is the output:

   Attribute	Description
   h1, h2, h3…	Headings
   a href	Hyper link

5. Use appropriate list attributes: If you want to use an unordered list, use

   <ul>
   	<li>
   <ol>

   attribute for ordered list. Here is the sample code:

6. Unordered list:

   <ul>
   	<li>First bullet list item</li>
   	<li>Second bullet list item</li>
   	<li>Third bullet list item</li>
   </ul>

   Output:

   • First bullet list item
   • Second bullet list item
   • Third bullet list item
7. Ordered list:

   <ol>
   	<li>First numbered list item</li>
   	<li>Second numbered list item</li>
   	<li>Third numbered list item</li>
   </ol>

   Output:

   1. First numbered list item
   2. Second numbered list item
   3. Third numbered list item

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More later! Enjoy writing effective blog posts!