Using H2 Tag for all content?

I'm using a website design company, and they have recommended all the websites content and text be coded in H2 tag.

Is this a good idea or not?

J

 

Well it depends. Normal text should have a size of .em and wrapped around in <p></p> tags

Basic heading on a web page should be wrapped in your <h2></h2> tags
Not every text on your page should be your h2's. Just your basic headings.

 

I agree with blktallos on that. H2 heading sizes and so forth, should only be used for the "titles" and "headings" in the page, not all of the content. If everything had the same font sizes as the "headings", everything would be so huge. You could however, raise the "font-size" in the CSS file for the content. Not too high though, but enough to be read easily and nicely.

 

According to my experience its not good idea. Because, In IE6 you can use H1...to ..H6. So managing your H tag is important in some cases.

 

I would say to just use H2 tags for your headers. Your website isn't going to look very stylized with all the text being H2. Plus it will be harder for the user to focus on what the page is really about in the first 5 seconds if all they see is the same text across.

 

Some search engines give weight to H1, H2, etc. when it comes to indexing your content so using it all over your page will quite likely dilute the value of your content and very well may associate your site with the wrong keywords.

-Zeras

 

These are really structural elements defined in ISO-HTML as follows:

H1 ..... Major section header
H2 ..... Section header
H3 ..... Subsection header
H4 ..... Subsubsection header
H5 ..... Subsubsubsection header
H6 ..... Minor subsubsubsection header

Although they have a default size and text conformity, they can be styled via CSS for text size, color, weight .......... and so on.

JFP

 

That's a horrible idea and I'd recommend strongly against it. Regular page text should be wrapped in paragraph tags and nothing else.

 

h1-h6 for headings

write your content with <div></div>

<div><h1>heading</h1></div

 

Some "pros" are complete idiots, and you found some. I ran across a local one who wouldnt even check his code with w3.org, he was leaving anchor tags and others open left and right.

 

Hi leswoody, I would start shopping for another web design company.
IMHO.

 

How about trying it as an experiment .
I believe it won't cause too much problem .

 

Because it's pointless and stupid.

 

Absolutely not a good idea at all.

 

I agree, it's pointless. How would one know the main content, from the titles and headings? They won't. It's bad practice to follow those coding methods, let alone having a "web design" company teaching their clients this stuff. It's all wrong and backwards, I'm glad I don't have to worry about running into that "design company"...