Thomas Wallace

Lectures and Resources

Metatags

Meta Tags

Meta elements are HTML or XHTML elements used to provide structured metadata about a Web page. Such elements must be placed as tags in the head section of an HTML or XHTML document. Meta elements can be used to specify page description, keywords and any other metadata not provided through the other head elements and attributes. (Wikipedia)

Required

Character Set

<meta charset="UTF-8" />

Description

<meta name="description" content="">

Responsive Support

Viewport

<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1, shrink-to-fit=no">

Historical

You are not penalized for these tags but they are not necessary in a modern web page

Keywords

<meta name="keywords" content="">

Author

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