Does the order of meta data matter ?
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There are three questions here.
1/ Does it matter in which order you list the meta tags.? Title , Description etc.
2/ Should these be bang at the top of the head section or is it irrelevant as long as they are there?
Finally our generated site is written so that the output is in the following form:-
Would it be better to suppress the id= tag or move it to the end.
I have gut feel that this is detremental when it comes to some search engines but have not done any analysis.
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I am enjoying every second. Some would call me sad!!
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Yes, once you get back into doing it everything will come back to you quickly. Have fun!
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Thanks, well maybe the fact that we have two different styles on the page one generated and one in the template should be addressed one with id= and one without.
Of course you are right on Title but we do have
It's a good ten years since I coded anything and I am just getting into the nitty gritty of things to get our site performing as it should. It won't take long before I am flying again!
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Title is not a meta tag, as for the rest, order does not matter, they have to be somewhere in the head section. The id attribute can be used on any element in HTML5 and moving it to the end will make no difference. However in general it is best to keep a standard, consistent style. Why stir things up unnecessarily?
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