From the course: HTML: Metadata in the Head

Setting expectations for your document - HTML Tutorial

From the course: HTML: Metadata in the Head

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Setting expectations for your document

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- [Instructor] When teaching HTML, we're so eager to get students to putting something on the screen, that we tend to skip over the head of our document. If we do anything at all, it tends to be changing a page title or adding a style sheet, but little else is explained. This course aims to end all of that. Today, we'll explore the tags read by robots and search engines that provide all kinds of information about your website. We'll examine declaring an HTML version and a human language in your website. We'll then look at some of the most useful meta tags you might want to include on your sight, including refreshing the page and configuring the page listing in Facebook. Finally, we'll look at linking to style sheets and JavaScript files, adding favicons and Apple icons, and why you might want to establish a base URL for your website. By the end of this course, you'll be a master of the head of your HTML documents. Not only knowing the code to add, but knowing why you should add it and what it will do to your page's accessibility, to search engines, and other automated systems. So if you're ready, let's get started with HTML: Head Elements.

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