Lions District 4-C4 - Web Access Resources for Web Masters - Accessibility - Setting Up Each Page.


Lionism District Members Activities Calendar Newsletter Resources Links Site Map Contacts Home	Commands To Include at the Top of Each Web Page Insert Before The ‹HEAD› Command These lines tell both the Graphical User Interface (GUI - AKA your web browser) and the Auditory User Interface - AKA your web reader) how to interpret the language related commands that follow on the page. ‹!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML//EN"› ‹html lang="en"› These commands tell web browsers and readers that they are dealing with an HTML document written and displayed in standard English. What To Put On The TITLE Line The TITLE line is placed within the HEAD near the top of your HTML document. It is important because it provides the description that search engines use to list the page. Some search engines also index the page using the words in the title. For these reasons your page titles should contain both the name of your organization or web site as well as a brief description of the page contents. For example, this page is titled: ‹title› Lions District 4-C4 - Web Access Resources - Accessibility - Setting Up Each Page. ‹/title› META Lines for Language Browsers and Web Readers can interpret language related commands using a variety of different information lines. For this reason, it is wise to provide additional language direction in the form of META commands which are placed in the document HEAD following the TITLE. For US English, we recommend the following META lines: ‹meta http-equiv="Content-language" content="en-US"› ‹meta http-equiv="Content-type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"› Use META NAME Lines to Direct Searchers to Your Web Pages META NAME lines are used by search engines and information gathering spiders to index web sites so that they can be located when folks go looking for them on the web. They are also a good way to establish your copyright and authorship. We recommend you include, at a minimum, the following. ‹META NAME="company" content="your club or district name here"› ‹META NAME="keywords" content="Lions, Service Club, and other keywords here separated by comas"› ‹META NAME="revisit-after" content="number of days, e.g., 30 days"› ‹META NAME="copyright" content="for example - © 2002 Lions District 4-C4"› ‹META NAME="Author" Content="your name here"› FOR MORE ABOUT META LINES VISIT THIS WEB SITE.