Lesson 1
Introduction
When you first open a new page in FrontPage you will see
a blank page. At the bottom of your window you will see
the Normal View will give you the
blank page, but if you go to the HTML view you will see the code below, and
Preview will show you what your page will look like when it is published.
<html>
<head>
<meta name="GENERATOR" content="Microsoft FrontPage 5.0">
<meta name="ProgId" content="FrontPage.Editor.Document">
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=windows-1252">
<title>New Page 1</title>
</head>
<body>
</body>
</html>
The <HTML>, <HEAD>, <TITLE> and <BODY> tags are explained in
HTML Lesson 1
<meta name="GENERATOR" content="Microsoft FrontPage 5.0">
<meta name="ProgId" content="FrontPage.Editor.Document">
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=windows-1252">
These are meta tags and they actually tell the search
engines how to properly list your pages. These are not a required field but are
very helpful if you would like to be listed with search engines. I use the meta
tags when I create pages to help myself and those who I build sites for to be
easily recognized and categorized in a search engine. I will describe each meta
tag that FrontPage is providing:
<meta name="GENERATOR" content="Microsoft FrontPage 5.0"> Tells what program you
used to create your page.
<meta name="ProgId" content="FrontPage.Editor.Document"> This one tells
what type of document it is.
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=windows-1252"> This
one tells the browser needed information like type of page HTML and character
set
You will want to add the two <META> tags that are discussed in
HTML Lesson 6
To help you with <META> tags, Ask Maggy Mae also provides a
Meta Tag Generator.
You can also edit your <META> tags by right clicking on your page and choose
Page Properties... then click on the Custom tab. From there you can add or edit
the <META> tags.
