Discussion » Strap Lines

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Posted by friday, 06:25, 20th February 2004:
 
Not the kind that you get after sunbathing in a bikini, but strap lines as in the title of a web page.

Question: what part does the strap line play in search engines, such as google and also - can anyone explain to me exactly what META tags are, what use they are and how you put them (and where) in a html document.

That was 2 questions - but it's friday so I should be able to get away with it!
Posted by cal, 10:13, 20th February 2004:
 
1) straps lines mess up google. they're not really any use, other than being slightly amusing

2) meta tags let you add headers to a page, as if the server sent those headers with the request. you can do stuff like keywords and description (for search engines), content type (for setting character sets), refresh (for auto matci redirection) and a bunch of others
Posted by friday, 12:52, 20th February 2004:
 
thanks cal, so in simple terms, like for me, I build static websites and update them manually (coz I cant get to grips with designing anything more complicated) - I can put keywords about my site, as meta tags, to help people searching for Malawi, get the choice of clicking on my link?

Where do I put them - in the header?

like here is the html for a blank page:




Untitled Document








where in that lot do I put the meta tags and how do I present them, like just words? in my case Malawi etc etc
Posted by friday, 12:53, 20th February 2004:
 
oh the html didnt come out
Posted by friday, 12:53, 20th February 2004:
 
sorry, im confused
Posted by cal, 13:20, 20th February 2004:
 
www.davesite.com/webstation/html/chap15....
Posted by tommorris, 13:57, 20th February 2004:
 
www.google.com/search?q=brown+rotund
if you're interested.
Posted by arsepuppy, 14:08, 20th February 2004:
 
Cal: you should do a page in 'Extra Stuff' charting the history of iamcal straplines and their origins, etc. (possibly even having links to the posts where the lines come from, and so on)
Posted by Doctor Lucid, 15:20, 20th February 2004:
 
There was a thread sometime where all the Strap Lines were... and it said who had said them and all that.,..
Posted by Abe Frohman, 15:22, 20th February 2004:
 
How about: Iamcal - Gently rotating Dr Johnston in his grave.
Posted by Abe Frohman, 15:22, 20th February 2004:
 
Or Iamcal - The grease on the slippery slope to damnation.
Posted by Abe Frohman, 15:22, 20th February 2004:
 
Iamcal - You MJ'ers can kiss our collective arses.
Posted by Doctor Lucid, 15:23, 20th February 2004:
 
No, can't find it. Found this; oh!, but not what i was looking for.
Posted by arsepuppy, 15:59, 20th February 2004:
 
Wow... I used to be funny back then, I guess it stopped when I got back to uni. Final-year higher education tends to suck the life out of you :(
Posted by Doctor Lucid, 18:43, 20th February 2004:
 
Yeah, you were funny then.

What happened to you, man? You used to be cool...