I am new to HTML and programming and hope someone can help me with this.
I have written the code for the first pages of my website and am now about to upload these to the server for a test.
Therefore I would like to know if the basic structure of my documents is correct and would like to get some comments on the following:
- Should I add or change anything regarding my document's head ?
- Do I include the external style sheets the right way and at the
right position + is it correct to start the href with
"/"here ?
(I read CSS should be included before JS for better performance.) - Do I include the external JS and jQuery references the right way and
at the right position ?
(I read JS should be included at the end of the body for better performance.)
Notes:
All PHP / HTML pages of my website are saved as separate files in the same folder.
This folder also contains a sub folder "includes" where my stylesheet and functions file are saved.
My HTML structure:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8" />
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0" />
<meta name="author" content="John Doe" />
<meta name="description" content="Created: 2015-06" />
<base href="http://www.myURL.com/" target="_self" />
<!-- jQuery -->
<script src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.11.2/jquery.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<!-- CSS -->
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="includes/styles.css" />
<!-- CSS - Font Awesome -->
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="//maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/font-awesome/4.3.0/css/font-awesome.min.css" />
<title>My Page</title>
</head>
<body>
<!-- ... -->
<footer class="footer">
<!-- ... -->
</footer>
<!-- JavaScript -->
<script src="includes/functions.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
</body>
</html>
Many thanks in advance, Mike
Looks good. Just a couple of minor things:
You should add
<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=edge">to ensure you don't get any MSIE compatibility mode issues.You may add favicon definitions in the head.
Yes, stylesheets belong in the head. The href depends on where you are storing the css files.
href="styles.css"href="css/styles.css"href="/css/styles.css"Move ALL your JS (including jQuery) to the bottom of the page, just before the closing body tag. Unless there's a very strong reason why you need JS to run before the page starts displaying, you should not have JS in the head.
There are a lot of things to learn, but it can be very fun and rewarding. Hope you have an enjoyable programming experience ahead. :)