Meta Tags: AUTHOR

The "Refresh" tag is not the only useful META tag one can place in the <head> of an HTML file. Another useful Meta tag is the AUTHOR desciptor. This tag allows you to put your name iside the HTML code of a page, so that even if your name does not appear in the document, there is still proof that the information is yours.

Anyone who views the source of your page will see your name. And web search engines see the source as well, so any page with your name as a Meta tag will be found by searching your name in a search engine. In fact, unscruplous web designers used to place any number of "Keywords" in Meta tags to increase their hits in browsers. Since then, most search engines ignore Keywords. So don't use keywords.

(Don't do this:
     <meta name="keywords" content="Buy me"> )

But the code for adding author information is very similar.

Do this:

Between the <head> and </head> tags, place the following code

<meta name="author" content="Your Name">

 

 

In Dreamweaver®, Meta tags are accessed through the "Head" submenu (in the Insert palette or menu)

Insert-->Head-->Meta

For "Attribute," select "name"

For "Value," write "author"

In the "Content" window, enter your name.

Click OK.

 

If you check the code view, you should see this:

<meta name="author" content="Your Name">