diff --git a/index.html b/index.html
index 0793bd7..eddfdd9 100644
--- a/index.html
+++ b/index.html
@@ -6,11 +6,22 @@
     <link rel="stylesheet" href="https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/font-awesome/4.3.0/css/font-awesome.min.css">
 
     <link href="css/StyleSheet.css" rel="stylesheet" />
-    <meta name="viewport" content="initial-scale=1" />
+    <meta charset="utf-8">
+    <meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=edge">
+    <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
+	<meta name="description=" content="Taiwei Tuan's personal website. Web developer, software engineer, with integrity at heart.">
 
     <!-- disable cache -->
     <meta http-equiv="Pragma" content="no-cache">
+
     <title>Taiwei Tuan's Website</title>
+
+    <!-- HTML5 shim and Respond.js for IE8 support of HTML5 elements and media queries -->
+    <!-- WARNING: Respond.js doesn't work if you view the page via file:// -->
+    <!--[if lt IE 9]>
+      <script src="https://oss.maxcdn.com/html5shiv/3.7.2/html5shiv.min.js"></script>
+      <script src="https://oss.maxcdn.com/respond/1.4.2/respond.min.js"></script>
+    <![endif]-->
 </head>
 
 <body layout="row" ng-controller="AppCtrl">
