iWeb HTML codes (META TAGS) - - - ADVANCED USERS
Okay, so alot of people have been asking how to setup META tags for Google and other sites. Apple's official stance is that this is not supported by them since you need third party applications to edit the code, here is a way to get this done, but be aware that if this does not work you can only republish your site since Apple will not resolve a manual coding issue.
-First you need a third party application to edit the code, like TextMate.
-You need to open your Welcome page with this editor
--If you use .Mac you would open this from iDisk>Web>Sites>(Your site name)>Welcome page.html
--if you publish to another host then you would edit this after publishing to a folder, the welcome.html file will be in the folder
-Once you see this file, you right click, otherwise known as Control + Click this file
-When the white menu appears select "Open With" and select the HTML editor, in this example we are referring to TextMate
-When this opens it will open in a white window with all the HTML code, ANYTHING changed here will effect your page, please be careful not to delete information.
-Copy Google's META tags and insert them where they recommend that they go. Typically this goes within the <head> and </head> tags
-Once this is done you will notice that the Red dot in the upper left corner has a dark circle in it indicating that if you attempt to close this you will be prompted to save this page. Once saved the META tags should work with Google
**HOWEVER, VERY IMPORTANT. If you decide to change your Welcome page in the future you will need to publish this site again which will remove everything you just did, so either leave the Welcome page alone, or restart this process after the publish has been completed.
-First you need a third party application to edit the code, like TextMate.
-You need to open your Welcome page with this editor
--If you use .Mac you would open this from iDisk>Web>Sites>(Your site name)>Welcome page.html
--if you publish to another host then you would edit this after publishing to a folder, the welcome.html file will be in the folder
-Once you see this file, you right click, otherwise known as Control + Click this file
-When the white menu appears select "Open With" and select the HTML editor, in this example we are referring to TextMate
-When this opens it will open in a white window with all the HTML code, ANYTHING changed here will effect your page, please be careful not to delete information.
-Copy Google's META tags and insert them where they recommend that they go. Typically this goes within the <head> and </head> tags
-Once this is done you will notice that the Red dot in the upper left corner has a dark circle in it indicating that if you attempt to close this you will be prompted to save this page. Once saved the META tags should work with Google
**HOWEVER, VERY IMPORTANT. If you decide to change your Welcome page in the future you will need to publish this site again which will remove everything you just did, so either leave the Welcome page alone, or restart this process after the publish has been completed.
Macbook, Mac OS X (10.5.2)
