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deadfingers
01-31-2005, 11:37 AM
Alright well i put meta tags on my sites yet they dont show up, now i dont have this code:

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"> but i noticed that many do, do i need to put this in as well? what exactly does this tag do? does it check out your keywords based on your content or what? What does that "charset=ISO-8859-1" mean? is that what everyone uses? i believe on other sites ive seen this but the number was a little different. Any help is appreciated. Oh and also my site has a bunch of these "&nbsp;" and some have told me that because of those that can cause my site not to show up on the page rankings, and i have practically all picture links as well. I checked this ranking thing that shows how good we rank and it said i didnt have not even one link on www.digitalebay.com, now im guessing it doesnt recognize picture links? thanx
shield
01-31-2005, 02:50 PM
this tag tells the browser or search engine or whatever else visits the page what the page is made up of. It also gives the character set of the code used.

tthat code you posted is in fact wrong. it should be:


<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html" charset=ISO-8859-1">

You put in a ; instead of a "
deadfingers
01-31-2005, 10:56 PM
this tag tells the browser or search engine or whatever else visits the page what the page is made up of. It also gives the character set of the code used.

tthat code you posted is in fact wrong. it should be:


<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html" charset=ISO-8859-1">

You put in a ; instead of a "

actually i got that off mozilla fire fox's website, but anyways im guessing its needed then correct? also can someone answer my other questions as well? thanx
tony
02-01-2005, 12:25 PM
&nbsp is a space i think and it usually goes in cells of tables if you have used dreamweaver so dont worry bout them

as for that code it isnt needed as such, you can make websites without them and it wont affect the appearence in the slightest
deadfingers
02-01-2005, 12:47 PM
<META http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> well i was looking around and html goodies had this, if u dont believe me then check the source. Anyways i guess im just gonna add that anyways, i changed the &nbsp; to div tags but thats a pain since u need to precisely put the px's in and it makes those changes according to the size of the whole page :S alright kew, oh and no i dont use Dreamweaver but i may start now :D
daboss
02-01-2005, 11:16 PM
the way deadfingers coded it is actually correct. both "text/html" and "charset=iso-8859-1" are values of "content" and is to be separated by a ";"...
deadfingers
02-01-2005, 11:47 PM
the way deadfingers coded it is actually correct. both "text/html" and "charset=iso-8859-1" are values of "content" and is to be separated by a ";"...
yeah i thought so, i checked plenty of places and even in dreamweaver it puts that itself so.
shield
02-02-2005, 12:52 PM
oh rite... sorry about that then. my mistake