Meta Tags

You can use the <refresh> attribute of the <meta> tag to redirect your user's web browser to a new page. Change the '12' to the number of seconds to wait befor loading the new page, and 'newpage.html' to the URL of the page.

<html>
<head>
<title>meta refresh</title>
<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="12; url=newpage.html">
</head>
<body>
etc...

The <meta> tag is mostly used to help search engines locate information in your page and properly index it so it can be displayed for people searching. The <meta> tag is placed within the <head> tags.

<html>
<head>
<title>Keywords and Description</title>
<meta name="description" content="This is were you put the description of your page.">
<meta name="keywords" content="HTML, meta, images">
</head>
<body>
etc...

'author' let's you supply information on the author of the page.

<meta name="author" content="Your Name (email@isp.net)">

'copyright' let's you supply information on the holder of the page copyright and years of the copyright.

<meta http-equiv="Copyright" content="holder name -- 2005, 2006">

'Content-type' will set the character set of your document.

<meta http-equiv="Content-type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1">

'rating' classifies what rating level your page content is.

<meta name="rating" content="General">
<meta name="rating" content="14 years">
<meta name="rating" content="Restricted">
<meta name="rating" content="Mature">

Below is a link to a page which offers 'fill-in-the-blank' META tags. It may be a little overwelming, but have fun!