Including meta tags

Meta tags are sections of HTML added to a page that provide additional information about the content on the page. They do not affect the appearance of the page in a Web browser, but provide information about the page for use by search engines and other automatic internet-based tools.

The most common meta tags provide the following features:

Meta tag name Description
DESCRIPTION A description of the page.
KEYWORDS A list of keywords related to the page.
GENERATOR The name of the software used to create the site.
REFRESH Loads another page automatically.

To add a meta tag

The Meta Tags dialog box shows a list of the meta tags already defined, and allows you to edit them or define new tags:

By default Freeway provides you with a GENERATOR meta tag with the value Freeway Pro.

To define a new meta tag

You are prompted to enter the name and value for the tag.

The meta tag will be displayed in the Meta Tags dialog box:

To edit or delete a meta tag

To load another page automatically

The Meta Tags dialog box also allows you to define system meta tags. The most useful of these is the REFRESH tag which causes the Web browser to reload the page after a certain delay, or load a different page automatically.

5;URL=newpage.html

where 5 is the number of seconds to wait before redirection takes place, and newpage.html is the URL of the destination page:


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