META
<META> tags, like <BGSOUND> in the last tutorial, appear within the head section of your Web page. <META> tags are used to provide internet search engines with the necessary details of your Web page. For instance, you can include keywords which can then be used by the sophisticated search engines to find your page. You do not have to include any <META> tags within a Web page, but it is good practise to do so! The attributes of the <META> tag are:
<HTML> <HEAD> <TITLE>Welcome to my Web page</TITLE> <META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="WebPage.Wizard v3.10 (Atari)"> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <META NAME="AUTHOR" CONTENT="Matthew Bacon"> <META NAME="DESCRIPTION" CONTENT="Cadenza Software Web site"> <META NAME="KEYWORDS" CONTENT="Atari, Falcon, ST, Web.Wizard, Cadenza"> </HEAD> <BODY> Welcome to my Web page? </BODY> <ADDRESS> This Web page was written by Matthew Bacon </ADDRESS> </HTML>This should hopefully give you a good idea of what to include within your <META> tags. A great little trick I learnt to do with a <META> tag was to force the page to update or change. Copy the HTML code below and substitute the file name and path of URL="" to one of your Web pages and wait! <HTML> <HEAD> <TITLE>Welcome to my Web page</TITLE> <META HTTP-EQUIV="REFRESH" CONTENT="5" URL="c:\anyfile.htm"> </HEAD> <BODY> Wait for it... I am going to change in 5 seconds! </BODY> <ADDRESS> This Web page was written by Matthew Bacon </ADDRESS> </HTML>
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