Html tute: Rounding it off
August 6th 2006 00:17
Well this post is going to finish off the basic html section of these tutorials. After that there are another four or five advanced html tutorials, and then I’m going to bring it all together and actually create a webpage for a local café.
For now, though, lets deal with:
Metatags
Metatags are designed to help search engines interact with your web page. These are placed in the <head> section of the web page. There are two main ones we will discuss:
<meta name=“
escription” content=”your page description”>
Many search engines use this metatag as their description of your website. They will normally only display 100 or 200 words, so it is good to keep this short.
<meta name=“keywords” content=“keyword1 keyword2 keyword3”>
The keyword metatag is used by some search engines to work out which sites are relevant to which search. Be warned, some search engines penalize you for having too many keywords.
And now, on to comments:
Comments
Comments are pieces of html code that can be added to your webpage in order to help you, or someone else, understand the code. They wont appear on the page itself, and wont affect it at all, but can be seen when you look at the source. They take the following form:
<!-Your comment here-->
And for the final part of this post, I will deal with:
Escape Codes
There are some characters that can’t be typed directly into html. Instead you have to use their escape code. These take the form of &code;. So, for example, to use a quotation mark you would type:
"
For the copyright sign you would type
©
There are lists of all the escape characters available on the internet.
Well that’s it for today. Next week we start the advanced course.
Adam
For now, though, lets deal with:
Metatags
Metatags are designed to help search engines interact with your web page. These are placed in the <head> section of the web page. There are two main ones we will discuss:
<meta name=“
escription” content=”your page description”>Many search engines use this metatag as their description of your website. They will normally only display 100 or 200 words, so it is good to keep this short.
<meta name=“keywords” content=“keyword1 keyword2 keyword3”>
The keyword metatag is used by some search engines to work out which sites are relevant to which search. Be warned, some search engines penalize you for having too many keywords.
And now, on to comments:
Comments
Comments are pieces of html code that can be added to your webpage in order to help you, or someone else, understand the code. They wont appear on the page itself, and wont affect it at all, but can be seen when you look at the source. They take the following form:
<!-Your comment here-->
And for the final part of this post, I will deal with:
Escape Codes
There are some characters that can’t be typed directly into html. Instead you have to use their escape code. These take the form of &code;. So, for example, to use a quotation mark you would type:
"
For the copyright sign you would type
©
There are lists of all the escape characters available on the internet.
Well that’s it for today. Next week we start the advanced course.
Adam
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