At the web shop for the U.S. House of Representatives, we recommend that our offices use Dublin Core and a number of other <meta> tags. The specific tags that we recommend are set out at http://cao.house.gov/web-standards/best-practices.pdf#page=186.
Elliot ________________________________ From: li...@webstandardsgroup.org [mailto:li...@webstandardsgroup.org] On Behalf Of Paul Collins Sent: Thursday, July 23, 2009 8:15 AM To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: [WSG] The <head> of the document Hi all, I'm just curious to know what other people do these days with the header of their document? What is best practice for: - Good search engine rankings - Best charset for English text (utf-8, right?) - Do we need robots - all anymore? - Any Accessibility issues? (Can't think of any) - Does anyone bother with descriptions, keywords anymore? - Dublin Core metadata, is that a forgotten fad?! I'll show you an example of how I setup a standard page, please anyone offer what they think is best practice, or perhaps send any useful links: <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd";> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"; xmlns:v="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml" xml:lang="en" lang="en"> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"/> <meta http-equiv="Content-Language" content="en-us"/> <title>TITLE</title> <meta name="ROBOTS" content="ALL"/> <meta http-equiv="imagetoolbar" content="no"/> <meta name="MSSmartTagsPreventParsing" content="true"/> <link rel="stylesheet" href="STYLESHEET" type="text/css" media="all"/> </head> Cheers ******************************************************************* List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: memberh...@webstandardsgroup.org ******************************************************************* ******************************************************************* List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: memberh...@webstandardsgroup.org *******************************************************************
