Keep it in your head
Now that most of us (bloggers) can find very powerfull WYSIWYG tools to design and create our webpages, it is very common to find nice blogs with nice bodies but almost nothing inside their heads. Just like with people, well, sometimes… Here is a list of things that you should have between the head tags:
Good titles
Titles are probably the most important part of you page. By using appropiate titles you can be sure that the user knows where he is and what he can do in your blog. Just look this real example:
meyerweb.com
mezzoblue ยง design, typography, and the web: live from vancouver, b.c., canada
You only need a few seconds to write a good title and your will really improve the site.
Meta information
The meta data suplies information about the document you are designing. If you will like to learn more about the meta-information here you can find everything you need to know. Anyway, here’s you have the meta data tags that I think you should always have:
<meta name=”author” content=”Your name” />
<meta name=”description” content=”description of the site” />
<meta name=”keywords” content=”keywords here” />
Finally here you can learn how to use the robots meta tag, a way to indicate to visiting search engines robots if a page should be indexed.
A Favicon
This is not such an important thing, but everything helps when you are trying to improve your site. All you need to create your favicon is this tool.
Once you have uploaded your icon to your server you only need to place this tag in the head of the document:
<link rel=”shortcut icon” href=”favicon.ico”/>
And of course, your stylesheet
If you will like to know more about the stylesheets and why you REALLY should use them, please take a look to our resource directory, into the css related and the tutorials categories