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Posted by Konrad Pilch
Konrad Pilch
2,435 Points

HTML Naming

Hi, can somebody tell me good naming conventions? So I don't get lost in my project. If I'm doing.h a home, contact, blog pages etc.. Then what would their html names will be? Container -blog etc..?

Stanley Thijssen
Stanley Thijssen
22,831 Points

I dont really understand your question. Could u make it a bit more clear so i might be able to help ya:)

Antonio Jaramillo
Antonio Jaramillo
15,604 Points

Here are a few links to blogs that discuss the topic of naming conventions. Hope this helps you out.

http://blogs.adobe.com/digitalmarketing/search-marketing/10-naming-conventions-lead-seo-success/

http://www.searchenginejournal.com/url-naming-best-practices/46740/

Konrad Pilch
Konrad Pilch
2,435 Points

I ment more like this

 <div class="wrapper">
        <header id="masthead">

            <div class="start-img">
                <img src="assets/img/head2.jpg">
            </div><!-- /start-img -->

You can see i named a class wrapper that wraps the whole page and gives 30px margin on top and bottom. My masthead id for the header. My image thats a background for my navigation , i called it start-img.

I dont know any good names for them.

1 Answer

Antonio Jaramillo
Antonio Jaramillo
15,604 Points
Antonio Jaramillo
Antonio Jaramillo
15,604 Points

As long as everyone that is working on your project has an agreement on id and class naming conventions, than you can name them whatever you like. I would advise to be careful that your names might be confusing to other coders, though. For example, "masthead" could be confused as something that is part of a boat. "Main-header" would probably be better. "Start-img" also could be confused as some sort function that triggers an image to be displayed. However, if you are the only one who'll ever code for this project, and your names make sense to you, than you'll be fine.

Konrad Pilch
Konrad Pilch
2,435 Points

You got it xD but I get confusing too when I build more pages. The way I name then gets confusing after I fo few pages nd i dony kbow what to call others after.