Comments on: Who Designed That Site?

By: cheyan

cheyan — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 15:38:33 +0000

sites that are extremely well designed. Naturally, I want to know who built the sites that capture my attention. However, unless the design firm puts a “designed by …” link on the page, there’s no way to know who designed or built a site. That’s why I’m suggesting web design shops make use of the designer meta tag.

By: Eric

Eric — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 21:33:40 +0000

If people kept the footer links alive it would be even easier – but the normally take them out. It would eventually be great to have a structure way for this info to get included without being able to be removed, but I do not think that is going to happen.

By: Jonah

Jonah — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 05:45:59 +0000

I have seen sites that are lovely and I could never find out who made it. And I know I have been guilty of making sites and not putting any marks on it that I created the design. So I think this is a great idea and think it could catch on. Because what is the worst that could happen, get someone wanting your services?

By: Tru

Tru — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 05:30:08 +0000

I think this would be a great idea. It would be nice to be able to contact a designer who has done a great job, but also to help stay clear of someone who’s site design is really bad.

By: Rose

Rose — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 05:05:56 +0000

I like this idea but would this really work in real world? what if the website is really bad? Would you still want to know about who built the site?

By: Katie

Katie — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 02:56:39 +0000

I was not aware that the “designer” meta tag was valid! I might have to use that on client websites, if they don’t mind I don’t really like putting “designed by..” links. If this was widely used, it would be great! I love browsing through great portfolios.

By: Felix

Felix — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 02:34:02 +0000

This is an innovative idea. I particularly like that it doesn’t impose on the client’s finished product with a footnote irrelevant to the majority of the site’s users.

It might be even better to set a standard format for name and weblink/email, so this kind of data could be aggregated as a microformat.

Blake – do you know if this is would pass W3C standards? Is there not a predefined set of meta tags you can use?

By: brenbloom

brenbloom — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 02:13:07 +0000

This is a terrific idea! In addition to helping upstart websites, it’s also a boon to designers looking to get credit for their work or a little cash for helping someone with design.