HTML meta tags

[philjohns]

Ok, I've been contracted to build a website through a photographer who photographs hotels.

Some of the things on the site that they have requested I don't like but this is besides the point.

In the head section for the website I am adding the following meta tags:

<meta http-equiv="Content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"/>
	<meta http-equiv="Content-Language" content="en-uk"/>
	<meta name="MSSmartTagsPreventParsing" content="true"/>
	<meta name="keywords" content="INSERT, KEYWORDS, HERE, SEPERATED, BY ,A ,COMMA"/>
	<meta name="description" content="INSERT DESCRIPTION OF WEBSITE HERE"/>
	<meta name="author" content="AUTHOR'S NAME"/>
	<meta name="copyright" content="WEBSITE ADDRESS - WEBSITE OWNERS NAME &copy; CURRENT YEAR"/>

For the author tag, who should I be putting? The owner of the website? My name as the coder/designer or the person who is contracting me to do it?

Thanks,

Phil

[Toon]

Your name would be good

[philjohns]

Cool, thanks Toon - I'll be posting it up soon for "your thoughts" again.

[tommylogic]

I would put your URL and or email in with that

[philjohns]

I was thinking that, but the terms that I agreed with were that it would not go on my online portfolio....I think that that was my mistake....

We agreed I could use it for job folios, uni folio etc but not on my online one under "my business name"

[Toon]

Break the email though you don't want bots getting it

[tommylogic]

Originally Posted by Toon

Break the email though you don't want bots getting it

thought that was a given.. but yeah.

[philjohns]

What do you mean?

[tommylogic]

if you put your actual email address on a page or in the head.. bots will get ahold of it and spam the h*ll out of you... so you break the link and name it instead of "you@here.com" you might say "you[at]here[dot]com"

[LeadMagnet]

Don't put your email in there. Spambots crawl through the internets looking for tasty new email addresses to feed their spambot overlords.

It's the reason why people write their email addresses like yourname at hotmail dot com and why i use javascript to concatenate email addresses together from a few strings in websites i make rather than writing it in. I find it unlikely that spambots would process javascript before searching a page.

*edit* beaten to it. That's what i get for typing with 1 hand.