New to blogs...how to structure HTML

CMS & WordPress
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So I don’t know much about blogs, never set one up before, but I’m not a stranger to correct mark up.

My buddy has a a site and on his home page there is a blog. It didn’t take me long enough to see there was a big problem. Every blog entry, the title was an H1. His homepage has around 12 different H1 tags.

#1) Is the homepage bad place for the blog? (It is a recording studio site not a blogging site, but they like to make updates about their clients and work)

#2) How do you write correct mark up for all those blog entries? Is each title an H2 or H3?

thanks!

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Most of the time, the blogpost titles are H2 tags.

Usually in my themes I use this structure:


<div id="post_(num)" class="post>
    <h2>The Title</h2>
    <p class="date">posted on ...</p>
    <p>Your post.....</p>
</div>
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1.) It really depends on the type of website. I rarely, if ever have the blog on the first page. I usually always dedicate a separate blog page and have the index or main page be different then the blog, widgets, sliders, etc… You can change the default “Homepage” and blog in Settings>Reading (wp-admin of course)

2.) What do you mean by correct markup? How do you re-write the way the blogs are displayed? Sorry, the question was just a bit confusing for me.

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Edit your theme CSS, you can specify there which H tags you want to use like h2…h6 as par your need for the post title.