Humans.txt – Let The Users Know Who Built That Website
We all know robots.txt, the text file that is uploaded to the root folder of websites and helps us communicate with the search engine bots for telling them which pages to not to index.
What if we want to communicate with humans and tell them who built the website? There is usually not a suitable space for this in websites and visitors may not be interested in seeing such an information inside "about" pages (in most cases).
This is where Humans.txt, which is an initiative for knowing the people behind a website, comes in.
Just like robots.txt, you upload a humans.txt file to the root folder of the website and can mention every detail that "careful eyes" would be interested in learning about the team behind, the designers, developers, copywriters, etc.
It won't be wrong to expect it getting popular as some big guys like Google or Flickr already have it. And, WRD has it too : ).
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5 Responses for "Humans.txt – Let The Users Know Who Built That Website"
I used it recently for a couple newer projects. I usually develop for agencies to the only way I can show it’s my work it’s through the code. I also set up a notification system so I know if anyone ever visits them
Very good idea, I love that !
Even if Internet is becoming only pure data … its good to see a such good idea !
Cool! I’m going to put humans.txt to all of my sites, starting at my food blog!
Thanks for this!
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We have the HumansTXT generator too:
humanstxt-creator.org
There is also a neat WordPress plugin available: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/humanstxt/