Forum Moderators: open
I am the designer, and therefore the 'author', but really they are the content providers and owners of the site. Since my name is not anywhere in the site itself, I was thinking it would be nice to sneak my name in somewhere, even if it's in the source. I'm thinking if someone is desperate to find out who designed the site, they might think to 'view source'.
thanks.
-V
<meta name="author" content="Named Author">This is actually referred to as one of many meta data elements that can be used in your <head> section.
It usually refers to the author of the content and not necessarily a designer or design firm.
These days most of us will recommend that you strip all metadata that serves no real purpose, the author tag is one of them.
Now, if you are in a educational industry and your site is going to be indexed by university search engines, etc. you may include the author tag to help identify the documents author.
I'm going to guess that this tag is used widely on book promotion sites or any site where authors as in the true sense of the term are of importance.
Welcome to WebmasterWorld [webmasterworld.com]!
...On the other hand, if you want to get your name in there, go ahead and use that tag. But you might consider adding in another "useless" meta tag, to avoid offending the client...
<meta name="publisher" content="Your client's name here">
<meta name="author" content="Site designed by Veronica">
The downside of using these more-or-less useless tags is that they add to code bloat, and push your important content further down in the page code, making that content slightly less "important" to the search engines. So don't use them without having a good reason - and your reason may be a good one.
Jim
