GENERALLY SPEAKING

TEAM NEWS: 
Alex Tushinsky, who is our esteemed guru of all
things technical, has decided to take a back
seat editor-wise and keep his techie hat on for
the foreseeable future. The rest of the team
being ladies, our resident male doesn't get off
that easy. We twisted his arm for two articles a
year. With the quality of Alex's applications,
you can bet they will be worth waiting for. So
from now on you will see Alex listed as
Technical Advisor.
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Steve Parker, winner of our recent Swish
Competition, is already mastering Flash
with his full version copy of SWiSH.
See what he has created using SWiSH and
drawings done by AnyFrontPage editor Tina
Clarke:
http://www.geocities.com/sparker216/page2.html 
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 ~ General News

Yahoo! Clubs will soon merge with Yahoo!
http://groups.yahoo.com/local/clubs_pre.html 
Do you own or belong to a FrontPage Yahoo
Club? Don't worry, all your Yahoo! Clubs web
addresses and URLs will continue to work, all
data and event ownership will be maintained,
and your entire club membership will carry over.
This will all happen automatically. You will be
able to access your group by:

Clicking on your group name from the My
Groups area off the main page of Yahoo!
Groups: http://groups.yahoo.com 
Typing in your current clubs URL:
http://clubs.yahoo.com/clubs/title 
Entering your new groups URL:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/*title 

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PLEASE NOTE:
The Latest issue of the Microsoft FrontPage
Bulletin Archives 2001 E-Book is now available
for download at: (December Issue)
http://anyfrontpage.com/bytes/ebooks/ 

Your password can be found in your welcome
message. Enjoy!
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"We are sad to report that following a long battle 
with illness, Paul Vineburg passed away on
November 25th at a Hospice center near his
home in Australia. Paul will be missed in our
FrontPage community. His themes and tutorials 
have been a mainstay for many FrontPage
enthusiasts." You can read more about Paul
and his sites at: http://www.pixelmill.net 
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Special Meta Tags & Searchengine Tricks
By Frances McColl Stewart
http://www.Dynamite-iT.com 

As you've seen in the first two parts of this
series, meta tags are indispensable to
searchengines and rankings, but they are such
a catch-all that they can be used for any
purpose that you want to use them for with your
web site.

You can make them searchengine specific. If
there are contradictory criteria (and there are)
between the programming that one searchengine 
uses for its 'bots and the programming that
another uses - you could write specific meta
tags so that one meta tag would be read by
Google for example, and another meta tag read
by AltaVista. (This editor would have to find it
extremely rewarding before doing that - but it
could be done.)

You can make them organization specific.
Many large web design companies use

{ <meta name=organization
content="CompanyName.com"> }

to sort for simple billing and filing purposes. Or
add the email address as in:

{ <META HTTP-EQUIV="reply-to" CONTENT=
"webmaster@anyfrontpage.com">. }

Meta tags can be used to set cookies: 

{ <META
HTTP-EQUIV="Set-Cookie"CONTENT="cookieva
lue=xxx;expires=Friday, 2-27-41 07:14:19 GMT;
path=/"> }

If you use an expiration date, the cookies are
saved to disk until expiration date. If expiration
date is omitted, they are valid only for the
current session and closing the Web browser
erases them.

Meta tags can be used to prevent caching:

{ <META HTTP-EQUIV="Pragma" CONTENT=
"no-cache"> }

Meta Tags can be used to refresh a page or
redirect a URL: (time is in seconds for browser
reload) 

{ <META HTTP-EQUIV="Refresh" CONTENT=
"0;URL=http://www.anothersite.com"> }

This is a good place to remind you that details
are important with meta tags. If your quote
marks are not correct here - the page will not
reload at all.

Meta Tags can be used to specify a "named
window" or used to prevent a page from
appearing inside another framed page.

{ <META HTTP-EQUIV="Window-target"
CONTENT="_top"> }

Meta tags are a fascinating subject and there
are many references on the web to their
usefulness. Our prime reference in this series
has been their relationship with the
searchengines.

Tips & Tricks

The order that your meta tags use is important
to many 'bots - not to others. Yahoo / Google /
AltaVista, for example prefer (read: higher
ranking) Title first, Keywords second and
Description third.

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When using frames, meta tags can be
confusing. Just remember that individual framed
pages are important. If you just use meta tags
for the frameset page, you will be short a few
hits. (smile)

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Some 'bots will give words found in the "H1" tag
a higher relevancy. The H1 tag specifies page or
topic headings. In most browsers, H1 is an
unattractive, oversized font, but if you use
Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), you can
specify the browser display for H1 tags for
higher relevancy and retain control of the page
presentation too. Remember that this goes in
the { <HEAD> } area:

{ <STYLE TYPE="text/css"> 
H1 {font-family: arial; font-size: 12pt; color: 
black} </STYLE> }

NOTE: EXCLUDE { } BRACKETS EXCEPT
THE ONE AFTER black} above.

This example forces all H1 tags on the page to
use a 12 pt Arial font in black text. (You would
substitute your own point size or font and repeat
for each page that you would want to be
spidered)

Helpful References:

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), in
development of a standard for labeling online
content, is the final word on HTML
specifications and guidelines on its use.
http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/ 

There have been many lawsuits over meta tags
and keywords - see the great article on this by
Danny Sullivan, Editor,
SearchEngineWatch.com .
http://anyfrontpage.com/rd/sw.htm 

NOTE: EXCLUDE END BRACKETS { }
WHEN PASTING CODE.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR
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Frances is a editor on AnyFrontPage Bytes and
an expert in the field of search engine optimization,
Frances' articles have been published in various
newsletters and websites.
http://dynamite-it.com/ 

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Jimco's Add-ins
http://www.jimcoaddins.com/addins.aspx

Clean Table New! (fp02)
Removes the "AutoNumber" ID attribute from
tables when pages are saved.

Jimco Flasher 1.1 ( Now FP2k compatible)
Consists of an add-in for inserting and
configuring Flash movies, and a component
(FP02 only) that allows you to easily insert
configurable Flash detection scripts.

Jimco Publisher 1.5.77 New version!
Allows you to easily schedule your Web(s) to
publish recalculate or backup on whatever day(s)
you choose at a preset time.

Jimco QuickBar 2.5 New version!
Allows easy access to your FrontPage Webs.
Stores usernames and passwords. Sets a page
to be the initial page on a per Web basis.
Stores a list of Webs you've opened for easy
access.

Jimco Page Margins 2002
Makes setting page margins a cinch in IE &
Netscape.

This is the first add-in to feature Jimcos new file
selection dialog, making it easier than ever to
select multiple files.

Coming soon from Jimco Add-ins!
Jimco Spawn is currently in development.
Spawn will allow you to easily create popup
windows that are highly customizable and is
scheduled for release by year's end.

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