A good way of leaving code writers information inside HTML?

Question

I'm wondering, what would be the best way of leaving code writers (programmers) information/initials/(maybe even) copyright... well, some information about web developer, not content maintainer inside HTML.

Is leaving a link to my site inside footer a good way, or I there maybe can used <meta> tags for something like that?

Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

Do you want that to be visible to the end user or not?

If not, use comments:

HTML

<!-- comment here -->

CSS

/* comment here */

Javascript

// comment

/* multi-line
comment*/

If yes, most of the times it'll be on the bottom, along with other copyright information.

Answer 2

Just place HTML comments near the start of the document.

<!--
     Page Design Copyright © 2010 My Design company,
     All rights reserved.

     http://example.com 
-->

meta elements aren't usually used for this sort of thing as they apply to the content of the current page.