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18 Sep 2010, 9:27 AM
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H1 Heading has disappeared

Hi all,
I have just changed the template of my website http://www.belindajays.com/ and for some reason I don't have a H1 heading. I have run the program "Web Ceo" which informs me that I have no H1 heading. I have upload another stylesheet which I know shows the heading but this didn't work and I have also checked my header.php which has the heading in it.

Hopefully someone can me :smile:

Thanks in advance!

18 Sep 2010, 10:27 AM
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Re: H1 Heading has disappeared

Well, you answered your own question - you've changed your template. And by the looks of it, the template doesn't use <h1>. So you need to go into the PHP files & amend it.

18 Sep 2010, 10:39 AM
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Re: H1 Heading has disappeared

Thanks for the reply terraGirl.....Any chance you could go into more detail about how I do that. I'm fairly new at this and I'm not sure what php file you mean. What would I need to add? Thanks heaps for your help...I really appreciate it.

18 Sep 2010, 1:02 PM
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Re: H1 Heading has disappeared

Thank Template Monster for changing lots of standard files to replace <h1> with <h2>. I'm afraid your best bet will be to use the Developers Toolkit in admin > Tools; paste <h2 in the bottom left box, select all files and search. This will show the files where it is used; some of them will be properly <h2> and some should be changed back to <h1>. I'm afraid you're on your own for this process as we have limited tolerance for spending time fixing TM's screwups.

19 Sep 2010, 8:24 AM
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Re: H1 Heading has disappeared

Thanks gjh42...after much digging and playing around, I have discovered the problem was in the tpl_header.php. I had to add...

<div id="headerpic"> <div id="slogan"> <h1>your own heading/keywords here</h1> <h2>your own words here</h2> </div><!-- slogan -->

I also configured the stylesheet too, but it's all fixed and the H1 heading is showing on my site now. Just thought I would post this just in case other people are having the same issue. Besides the H1 heading is pretty important when it comes to SEO.

19 Sep 2010, 3:45 PM
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Re: H1 Heading has disappeared

Generally, Zen Cart displays the individual page content heading as the <h1>, as that is tailored to the specific page. Having the site logo/slogan/etc. be the h1 for every page dilutes its usefulness. The logo does not get a heading tag.