Hello DP members, Just would like to learn a few things, I've seen meta tags like these and I don't really know what it's about : <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" /> Code (markup): I would like to know what that means & how to create them. I've seen alot of popular websites with those meta tags, instead of keywords, ect... Am not really good with SEO, but I need a little help about this. Sorry if this is posted in the wrong section of the forums, due to me not knowing alot about these kind of meta tags,
It's the tag to say what the character set is - in that case it's the American & European character set
That meta tag is used to tell the web browser which text character format/encoding to process the page as. Personally, I recommend using utf-8 rather than iso-8859-1 . I've had fewer problems with it for english language text. But it really depends on the language characters, etc, you need to use on the page. You can read more about it at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Character_encoding
It's the character encoding tag. It must match the character encoding the Web page is saved in as well as the HTTP headers sent by the Web server if you want the page to be rendered properly. Otherwise you run the risk of dealing with character encoding errors. (Which usually show up as a ? in your page.) For more information, read The Definitive Guide to Web Character Encoding by Tommy Olsson.
To generate meta tags you may try Online Meta Tags Generator The above meta tag you are asking is used to tell the browser about the encoding used for the html contents present in web page, so that the browser can accurately decode it.
You don't create it, you save your pages with it. What text editor are you using to create your pages?
I already know how to create normal meta tags, and I've noticed it's an encoded meta tag... I don't use an online text editor, I use notepad... So, how do I encode it? What software do I use?
I didn't ask about an online text editor. I asked what PROGRAM you used. Since you said Notepad, you're going to have to do some extra work to avoid having the Byte Order Mark (BOM) injected into your pages. When you save your pages, go to File > Save As then save as "All Files" type in the file extension you are saving your page as (such as webpage.html) then choose UTF-8 as the character encoding. Make sure the META tag also states you're saving the page as UTF-8 then check your server's HTTP headers to see what character encoding its sending the pages under (since that trumps the META tag).