In our lesson today we look at the importance and hierarchical relationship of our content. Whenever you are designing a site it is important to use the proper html elements. What I mean is, using the heading elements properly is important when designing accessible web sites. It is tempting as a beginner to utilize heading elements when in need of bigger text. When bigger text is needed, CSS is a better way of achieving this. Heading elements should be used to structure your site. Headings are for better semantics and to organize your content in proper sections. Every page should only have one h1 element. This is the main subject matter of the page. Then, h2 elements would be sub sections and h3 are sub sections to the h2 material, and so on. Organizing your site in hierarchical order is not only important to organize your site for yourself, but screen readers will read outloud the sub sections of your site to those utlizing them to quickly get an overview of the page. Correctly relating content is a key point of heading elements. Learning to use them correctly is key for any aspiring web developer.
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