BrØnw3n’s World

Sorry for the delay on this installment. Things got kinda busy after New Years… 

Last time around we established that META tags are how we add extra, non-essential information to web pages. This extra information is called metadata, and while it can be useful, adding metadata is to your web pages is not mandatory. All metadata does is supplement the necessary information contained in digital files.

When used on the Web, this extra information is sometimes used by the end-user’s web browser. Other times it will be used by search engines, and still other times it will be used by third-party programs. Let’s take a look at the kinds of META tags you can use, and how each kind is built.  Read more »

I’m currently up to my eyeballs in a web development project that seems determines to act like the Blob – growing and growing with no end in sight – and while researching service providers of various sorts I came across an article that struck a nerve.  Read more »

What would the New Year be without a new round of classes at Glendale Community College? As usual, I will be spending my weekends in Room 225 at the Garfield Campus teaching classes on everything from basic computer skills to various Microsoft Office applications.

For a full listing of classes I will be teaching, go to the GCC website. There you can view their online catalog, and even register for classes on everything from basic guitar to water coloring to golf and more!

Enjoy!

~B~

In my last post we took a look at some HTML source code and started exploring ways to optimize the HEAD content of your web pages. So far we’ve only looked at how to use the TITLE tag, but in this post I want to talk about META tags and what they really are.

META tags are the web’s version of metadata. If you’ve never heard of metadata before, don’t freak out. You have probably encountered metadata before but never had it explained to you what you were seeing.  Read more »