HTML: The Problem with Browsers

What are Meta Tags

Planning and designing a web site is really only one part of the process of interactive publishing. Without submitting your site to search engines, and understanding how web robots and spiders look for and file your web site, few people will be able to actually find and visit your site.

Meta tags are tags that hold 'hidden' information about an HTML page.

As you know, everything that is in between the opening and closing body tags of an HTML page appears within the browser window. The head section of an HTML page is used to include other information that the user is not meant to see. Search engines and browsers read the information and use it to index pages, add descriptions, titles, associate keywords, and launch new pages.

Meta tags belong in the <head> section of an HTML page.

The most common use of the meta tag is to add a description. Then, when a search is performed, the engines will know how to describe your site (by the description tag)-- otherwise it will simply use the first sentence of text on your page. Here are some common meta tags:

Refresh Meta Tag

This meta tag can be used to automatically load a new web page after a set number of seconds. See a few examples:

Sequence: uses the HTML refresh tag

Hegirascope: a hypertext fiction by Stuart Moulthrop, click "begin" to start

Remember that meta code belongs in the head secion of the HTML page

This code will automatically load the Adobe Web site after 10 seconds

This code will automatically load another page in my Web site after 2 seconds