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hunny

12th February 2006, 13:57

Hi,
I am trying to add a title description etc to my site, can anyone help me here - from basics how I go about it. I'm using front page.
Any help would be gratefully received although I'm struggling with it so it'll have to be simple - but I want to learn. :D
Anne

clairemackaness

12th February 2006, 15:08

right click page properties

hunny

12th February 2006, 15:21

Claire -I understand the page properties - view source bit, but need to know how to add the title description using ftp etc.
Thanks,
Anne :D

Coding Monkey

12th February 2006, 15:28

If I'm understanding you right, you just add it at the top of the page like this:

<head>
<title>MyLovelyPageDescription</title>
</head>

hunny

12th February 2006, 16:05

Thanks Tom - yes thats what I meant, and then I upload it through fpt.
Do I do this for every individual page?
When I've done the titles where do I add the meta tags? descriptions?
sorry for sounding dumb - but I am on this subject!!
Thanks, Anne :D :D

Coding Monkey

12th February 2006, 16:11

Don't worry about it, all have to start somewhere. You will have to do it for every page, unless you designed it with some server-side software, but I'm somewhat doubting that ;)

Here's a template for you that should go at the top of every page. Don't worry about what DOCTYPE and 'Content-Type' do. Just best to include them.

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/DTD/xhtml11.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en">
<head>
<title>TitleGoesHere</title>
<meta name="description" content="DescriptionOfPage" />
<meta name="keywords" content="KeywordsForPage" />
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
</head>

Hope that helps.

hunny

12th February 2006, 16:19

Tom - is it a just a case of copy and paste the template you gave and filling in the titles etc
what about the codes that already appear on the site? do i just leave them alone where they are?. I'm frightened to death of deleting something that I shouldn't.
cheers :D
Anne

Ian J

12th February 2006, 17:21

It's best to rename the copy of the index page that you keep on your PC to index_old.htm so that if you mess up anything you have the original as backup.

Your page already has <title>Home</title> so all you need to do is to put some text in there.

Underneath the title input <meta name="description" content="text, text, text">

hunny

12th February 2006, 20:17

MacMyday -Thanks for all your help - i've PM'd you.

Ian Thanks, yes I will make sure i've got a back up.

thanks all
anne :D

clairemackaness

12th February 2006, 21:10

You dont have to do any of that stuff hunny. If your using front page, just right click and choose page properties. Type what you want to appear as your title in the title box and hey presto, once saved and the page is uploaded it will appear. Really quite easy, with no HTML needed at all.

Thats all i did and my site works fine.

hunny

13th February 2006, 12:54

Thanks claire, yes, i've got the idea now - but you know all this IT stuff - one thing leads to another problem - I hate computers! :D
Anne