html tags - help anyone?

[ispital]

I use Notepad to edit my html file locally and add meta tags, eg.
meta name="keywords" etc etc, and all is well after FTPing to www. When looking at the live web page source I can see the tags.

However, I do my main editing of the html file using MS Word but this program seems to strip out the tags. After I've editied in Word and FTPd to www, looking at the source shows the tags are gone.

Anyone got any ideas/tricks to avoid this happening?

Ivor

 

[MasterMax1313]

i'd personally suggest not using MS Word. Notepad++ is a great, free, text editor with keyword recognition. MS Word is probably being "smart" and interpreting the tags, if I'm understanding your problem. It has a tendency to try and format based on the info that you're providing. If you're trying to use word as a wysiwyg editor, save the page as a .html file, and it should add the necessary tags to file to be viewed by a browser.

 

[FalseHope]

Why are you uploading it to the www folder? Why not the public_html?

 

[Pi606]

i'd personally suggest not using MS Word...

I'll second that. MS Word adds in tons of tags that basically do nothing to the page. I personally use MS visual web developer (it's free). But if you still want to use MS Word, you can use the HTML editor that's built into cPanel to add the tags.

 

[Sohail]

Yeah there are much more professional and free programs to use and that can do way better . Personally i like to use Dreamweaver .

 

[MasterMax1313]

as Pi606 said, MS Visual Web Developer is great. It's very professional, and the express edition is free from MS's website, just as is most of VS 2008, as express editions. The one catch with MS Visual Web Dev is that it only devs in MS languages, so no PHP, no JSP, etc. but you can use it as a WYSIWYG editor and it works great. I've used it to dev the layout and style since you can edit the CSS and see exactly what that does to the page without having to go to your browser.

 

[leafypiggy]

At who ever asked about why www folder:

The "www" folder is the same as "Public_Html" folder.

 

[Pi606]

... so no PHP, no JSP, etc...

You can still use PHP, it just won't syntax-highlight for php. I used:

<?php include("header.php"); ?>

and it still saved and displayed correctly (it didn't execute the php in the preview, as php is server-side)

 

[MasterMax1313]

that is what i meant by no php and no jsp. granted they are simply text files run through an interpreter, but you can't debug them in MS Web Dev like you can ASP and ASP.NET (with ASP and .NET it starts a local server to execute the code so that you can debug it).

 

[Pi606]

Oh, OK.

That's why I want ASPX to be enabled on Stoli. But I can live with PHP.

 

[Tariqul Islam]

Good Discussion

 

[theafterthought]

as Pi606 said, MS Visual Web Developer is great. It's very professional, and the express edition is free from MS's website, just as is most of VS 2008, as express editions. The one catch with MS Visual Web Dev is that it only devs in MS languages, so no PHP, no JSP, etc. but you can use it as a WYSIWYG editor and it works great. I've used it to dev the layout and style since you can edit the CSS and see exactly what that does to the page without having to go to your browser.

I've never used Web Developer - forgive me my prejudices but given the fact that it's by Microsoft I get the feeling it's support of CSS et al wouldn't be that good, seeing as IE is poor in this regard? Especially when in WYSIWYG mode... am I wrong? :dunno:

 

[woiwky]

I've never used Web Developer either, and I'm certainly not pro-MS, but I wouldn't call IE's css support "poor". It may be a little lacking when compared to other mainstream browsers, but it's definitely adequate.

 

[MasterMax1313]

it works rather well, and granted the in program page viewer probably uses IE, but since it creates a small server on your machine that runs while debugging, you can use any web browser and just supply the address to the browser and it will open and run. So you can use Opera or FF's CSS interpretation to better code your page.

 

[ispital]

Thanks everyone who answered, I managed to get the tags to stay in the html file; however, although I added unique keywords in the tags (and added the site in google.com/addurl, my page is not listed in google. Any ideas?:dunno:

 

[marshian]

It can take weeks for your site to be added to google. If you want better support use the webmaster tools:
https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/siteoverview?pli=1