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How to create your own web site - Part 6 Brought to you by The Phoenix On-Line Foundation and Slippy...AKA...Ian
In this part I'm going to put together a mix of all sorts including some additional explanations, refinements and a look at sound. Without ado.. lets get going.
Using the <META> tag. The big search engines like AltaVista, Ecite, Webcrawler etc.. are always scouring the web for new and updated web sites. The chances are that one day, they will come across your humble pages and add them to their massive databases. There is a way to ensure that your page comes out nearer the top of the list, when someone runs a search for topics related to your site. The way of doing that is to use a couple of special <META> Tags. These tags are inserted between the <HEAD> & </HEAD> tags and define key words and a description of your site that the search engines use.
First the description of your site;....
Now for the keywords that the search engine will use to match with the search criteria;.....
To make sure that your keywords are compatable with most engines, always put your keywords in lower case.
There is another clever use of the META tag, that may not be well known and thats a special one that can redirect visitors to a new site or page. If you're like me, and like a particular site you visit, you may decide to add it to your favourites. Thats fine, untill the site owner moves or renames the page. Good practice says you don't remove pages, Yes you can move the page, but leave a page of the same name there which re-directs visitors to the new page. This type of page is called a "century 21 page" . Users of Netscape or IE can use a clever feature called "client pull" which AUTOMATICALLY sends the visitor on to the new page. The META tag to do this is;....
Here the browser will automatically refresh the page but to the URL address you give. Note the content="5". This could be any number, it is infact a number of seconds to wait before re-directing. You would therefore make a very simple page saying that the page has moved and put the client pull META in the header as with the others.
Adding Sound There are 3 sound file formats commonly used for web pages.
.AU supported by both netscape and IE it is most often found in the web soundscape.
Sound links.
Embedding sound files.
Background sound.
Some extras on frames Last time we looked at creating a simple frame based web site. And we looked at how you use the TARGET atribute to determine which frame a page loaded into. Well here are a few extra atributes that can help in assigning the target frame for pages.
Firstly there are a number of pre defined frame names that browseres automatically recognise...
But you may not need to define the target if you always load to the same window. You can set a DEFAULT frame for files to be loaded into. To achieve this you need to add <BASE TARGET="frame name"> between the <HEAD> & </HEAD> tags. This will cause the browser to send every linked page to the default frame. Good Luck!
Still to come... Creating Lists
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