HTML source lines that describe page

These lines are not shown to the typical visitor to this website, but they are coded in each page, in and before the HTML <head> element, to describe the page and to tell your browser how to render the page's content. Deciding this hidden information is some of many design considerations that go into the creation of this website.

Document declaration (first 3 lines of code for all pages)

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?> (XML, which XHTML is, and character encoding)
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en-US"> (XHTML containing content in US English)

<head> lines except meta-name and link elements

<title> Name for visitors bookmarks</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" />
(for compatibility with old browsers and servers)
<meta http-equiv="Content-Style-Type" content="text/css" /> (if any style attributes, rare)

<head> link tags

<link rel="shortcut icon" href="favicon.ico" type="image/x-icon" /> (or type="image/vnd.microsoft.icon")
(Favicon, short for Favorites Icon, appears in browser location bar and favorites list.)
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="vsdc.css" /> (page heading formatting in all pages)
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="list.css" /> (table and list formatting in some pages)
<link rel="home" href="." />

In the next 3 sections, replace "name: content" with <meta name="name" content="content" />.

<head> meta tags about document creation

date: yyyy-m-d (date the page was last modified) (alternate: dc.date.modified), scheme="Year-Month-Day"
date-created: yyyy-m-d (date the page was created) (alternate: dc.date.created, scheme="ISO8601"
author: ... (who wrote the page content)
generator: text editor (what software was used to create the page)

<head> meta tags for privacy, in only a few pages

robots: none (tells web search sites to ignore page) (in contact page to hide VSDC email address, and in this page)
no-email-collection: http://www.projecthoneypot.org/model_terms_of_use.php (tells robots to ignore email addresses)

<head> meta tags about VSDC location (only in home page and main non-VSDC page)

Open Directory Project (ODP), Directory Mozilla (DMOZ)
- dmoz.id: Regional/North_America/United_States/Washington,_DC/Society_and_Culture/Organizations
Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names (TGN)
- tgn.name: Washington
- tgn.nation: United States
- tgn.id: 7013962
Geo Tag
- geo.region: US-DC
- geo.placename: Washington, DC