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Posted by Andy Dingley on 10/02/06 10:44
G Doucet wrote:
> I wanted to keep track of my html files with a version number
Then set up a real version control system on a server alongside your
development desktop. I suggest installing Subversion (free) as about
the best choice. It's not the simplest thing in the world, but it's
time well spent. Once you have one, you'll wonder how you ever managed
without.
> and identify myself as being the author.
Embed this information in a <meta> element
<meta> have a poor press these days, as the fact they're easily spammed
led to them being ignored by search engines, which led (erroneously) to
them being written off as worthless. They're certainly not worthless,
they just need to prove they're trustworthy before you make use of them
-- obviously the ones on your own site can be trusted by you at least.
A <meta> element is far more easily located, identified and parsed than
an opaque string of text in a comment.
It's unlikely that author name alone really adds much. If you use
metadata at all, it's usual to use a fair bit of it, Try reading the
resources from http://creativecommons.org and http://purl.org/dc for a
lot more useful background here.
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