Hello in this HTML Crash Course video, we are going to cover meta tags. You may have heard of meta tags or metadata meta information. If you've probably heard of Waterman probably I would say meta data, especially with Laura leaks comment about was Snowden leaks, simply put metadata meta tags meta information, we can all just let a categorize it and metadata metadata is just data about data AIDS. It's just information. It's just a description essentially, that's the simplest way of printing allows us to provide information about something. So, for example, for we start coding, let's just open this file Actually, I'm not opening Get Info.

So what this fall will have is a bunch of meta information, most likely stuff like this, so it has what kind of file Linnaeus the soil is created modified, you will have other metadata as well maybe who created it last opened. So that's what meta data is. It's just data to describe the data at the end of the day of foil is just a piece of data. So data to describe the data. So why would you want to use it on your website? For starters, SEO, which is search engine optimization, which allows your helps your website go higher in the rankings by providing a keyword descriptions.

So when the user searches for something like PlayStation four blog, if you have a PlayStation four blog, and you have key words are related to common with a search term, you know, how SEO how you get the rank is I'm not saying that's all you have to do yet. There's a lot of stuff you can do for SEO there. It's a whole career nowadays, search engine optimization is but that's why you would want to use it, essentially. In your website. So to create meta tags, you simply open actually nothing to mention meta tags or void elements, so they don't have any data. So you don't need a closing and starting tag, you just have one tag like this, you do meta, and then you have some sort of attribute to describe what you're doing.

The first one we're going to do is set the character set by doing char set equals UTF dash eight. And you can even close meta tag like this, or as I like to do like this. This again, I've said before, so it's a habit from when I used to do X HTML and from XML in general. So either way is acceptable. So I'm just going to show you what happens if I were to go to Google and typing UTF eight is just a type of character set. So if I were to go to the Wikipedia page, scroll down, go to the three free schools.

So it is essentially a way of well, I want to say displaying data, but it's a bunch of different characters that he basically says what sort of characters are supported in your website? You could change it, you could put it to something like and say, I so I five, nine, chances are you're evenly blank or put UTF eight. If you don't know what you're doing. Those are probably the two best ones. Ooh, Latin extended day. Let's see what that's about.

What's going on sort of off topic on there. Yeah, let's get back on topic. So yeah, that's our first meta tag. The next one we're going to do is meta name. And now we put the actual for data that would describe mints I want to put a little description so for that you put next As description, put content, which will equal to some sort of basic description of your website, I'm going to put three web tutorials, flows there. And what I'm going to do is copy and paste these two more times.

There are just four method tags, there are a lot more that you can use. But these are some of the basic ones. If you were to go into Google and type in HTML, meta tag, and go to the free schools website, you can see some of the meta tags that you can have some of the attributes that you can use. And as you become more and you become more experienced in web development, you're utilize meta tags a lot. Why not use frameworks such as bootstrap, you'll see that they use meta tags with just help their websites. So the other thing We're going to put his keywords.

So this is a great way to put a few key words about your website. Mao says xml yahveh script, web Toriel crap Crash Course. And the final one is going to pop author. So we have some information, saying who the author of this amazing website was stolen from my name for Han is saying, Please save that go back to our web browser refresh. Remember, like nothing changed. And there's no reason we should do meta tags.

Again, they're just information data, but they are here they have appeared here. So that's it for meta tags or a basic look and meta tags. If you have any questions whatsoever, feel free to post them on my education platform. So now Learn Dakota UK. There will be a link in the description to the source code from this video and the source code from every other video in this series. If you like this video, please let us know if it didn't let us know as well so we can improve it for next time.

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