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A question I always have, is this meta tag for the name of the owner of the company or who made the template?

meta name="author" content="">

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asked by anonymous 30.09.2018 / 20:23

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The meta tag author serves as a kind of electronic signature of the person who developed the page. If it was created by an autonomous developer, one can put the name of the developer; if the developer works for the company owner of the page, one can put in addition to the name of the developer, the name of the company also, whatever. There is no standard for this.

Developer name:

<meta name="author" content="João">

Or company name:

<meta name="author" content="Empresa X">

Or both:

<meta name="author" content="João - Empresa X">

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I would suggest using the meta tag copyright if you want to declare who owns the copyright of the template.

<meta name="copyright" content="© 2018 Wesley Vicente" />

You can also use Dublin Core Metadata tags to declare this.

<meta name="DC.rights" content="https://Wesley-Vicent.com/termos-de-uso.html">

or

<meta name="dcterms:rightsHolder" content="Wesley Vicent">

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So you leave the author of the content of the page for who will actually use the template, but reserves the copyright to create the template for you. I see author as "who writes" and not as "rights owner". The documentation is not very clear on this subject ... and goes from its interpretation and ethics also depending on the case ...

The interesting thing is that most meta tags are ignored by search engines and by the browser itself. Here is a complete list, and even has a web_author tag to indicate who developed the site link

Take a test yourself, take the code below with the custom meta tag <meta name="desenvolvedor" content=" seu nome aqui"> and test the W3C code validator that you will see that it will not show any errors. link

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
    <meta charset="utf-8" />
    <meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=edge">
    <title>Page Title</title>
    <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
    
    <!-- tag meta customizasda -->
    <meta name="desenvolvedor" content=" seu nome aqui">
    
</head>
<body>

</body>
</html>