Learning Report 1
This is the first Learning Report from the frist few weeks of class
DESCRIPTION OF LEARNING REPORTS - The acceleration of change on the web is exponential. This means that the web professional must constantly retool. It is easy to fall behind and become outdated. To reduce the risk for such tragedy, web professionals have to find resources to use to update their skills on an ongoing basis; such resources may include ezines, blogs and tutorial sites. This series of assignments is to locate several such resources and learn something new each week. Based on what you learn, you will be responsible for two things: first) implementing what you learned into your site, and second) documenting this in written form. The written documentation will include: a- identification of the resource used (by name and identifier [if a web site use the URL, if a printed item, full bibliographic reference]), b- a short (2 to 3 paragraph) overview of what you learned, c- an explanation (2 to 3 paragraphs) of how you implemented it into the web site (be specific and provide examples or links to examples within your site). Each report (8 total) will be its own web page in xhtml format and posted to your assignments area.
Meta Tag
Resource Used
quackit.comOverview
I learned that meta tags are very important and vital part of a web site. Meta tags are places within the website that describes the metadata. From the website metadata is information about, or that describes, other data or information. Some metadata examples are things such as: Keywords that are related to that page, Description of the page or the entire site, Author of the website or information on that page. Metadata is important because it can assist search engines in finding the best match when a user performs a search. Search engines will often look at any metadata attached to a page - especially keywords - and rank it higher than another page with less relevant metadata, or with no metadata at all. This is very important when you runing a business or a company that you want search engines to put your website at the top of the search list.
Meta Tags Definition: 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. The meta element has four valid attributes: content, http-equiv, name, and scheme. Of these, only content is a required attribute.
Implementation
ShaunHutchings.com and associated with SpotLightJewelry are things that I want to be found in the search engines and such. So I added the "name" and "content" parts to this website and every single of the pages I have created so far. I want to add the keywords, author (which is me Shaun Hutchings) and other important information that is vital to my website.
You place the metatag within the <head> section of your code. You can copy and past the code above and place it in your <head> section of your code as well. Just replace content with keywords you want.
We have placed meta tags at the beginning of each web page but now I know why we do it. Here is some coding of it: <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html" /> and a little more important is this coding: <meta name="keywords" content="some keyword,another keyword" />
See it in action
Depending on your brower left click anywhere on the page. Once you do that a list will come down and then click view source or view source code. This will pull open a new page that has all my coding. Look in the <head> seciton and you will see my meta tag code for this page.
It should look something like this:
<meta name="keyword" content="Shaun Hutchings, Shaun, Hutchings, Learning Report, metatags, metadata, CIT, 230, spot light jewelry, spotlightjewelry, search engine" >
