Re: meta name

by Christopher Higgs <c.higgs(at)landfood.unimelb.edu.au>

Date:	Thu, 11 Nov 1999 16:05:25 +1100
To:	Aime Ackeberg <aimerenee(at)home.com>
Cc:	hwg-basics(at)hwg.org
In-Reply-To:
	todo: View Thread, Original

G'Day Aime,

At 22:01 10/11/99 -0600, you wrote:
>Hello there to all.  I am brand new to this list and to HTML.  I was
>wondering if anyone could help me.  I am looking at a source code for a
>church website and see the <meta name> tag a lot.  What is this tag?  There
>are many attributes associated with this tag also.  I notice the tag comes
>many times before the title?  I thought the title was supposed to come right
>after the <head>?  Thank you so much for your help on this definition!

In the HEAD, it doesn't really matter what is listed first, as long as a 
TITLE exists.

Meta tags contain information that is "about the page" without being part 
of it.  For example a list of KEYWORDS or a page DESCRIPTION for search 
engines, are common meta tags.

You can find out more here:

   http://vancouver-webpages.com/META/


Chris Higgs <c.higgs(at)landfood.unimelb.edu.au>
Institute of Land and Food Resources
University of Melbourne http://www.landfood.unimelb.edu.au
Firefighter, Werribee Fire Brigade, CFA

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