Dumb Question: H1 Header Tags

[Guest]

All - this is a 'newby' question from a 'ewby', but I need an answer
nonetheless as I can find none elsewhere on the web!

1. How do I create an 'H1 Header Tag' in FP2000?
2. When I 'View Source' on my page, I see <meta name="GENERATOR"
content="Microsoft FrontPage 4.0"> and <meta name="ProgId"
content="FrontPage.Editor.Document">

What do these 'meta tags' such as 'Generator' and "ProgID" mean and do they
harm my ability to get ranked in the engines?

Thanks (with more question coming I'm sure...)

 

[Andrew Murray]

Question 1
I use FP2003, but this should be a similar procedure: there should be a
pre-set list - in your Formatting toolbar for H1 ("Heading 1") size text
choose the one labelled "Heading 1". If not, then all you need to do is
put <h1> and </h1> around the text you want to be that size. Type it in
code/html view eg:

<h1>This is a heading</h1>


Question 2
The meta tag "Generator" and ProgID just tells you the site was made in
Frontpage. Frontpage 4.0 = Frontpage 2000 since you're using FP2000. I
don't know that they would effect search engine rankings; site engines
usually depend (or did depend) on Meta tags such as "Keywords" and
"Description" tags, not "Generator" and "ProdID".

I could be wrong, but I don't see the relevance of "Generator" and "ProgID"
to any search engine.

If you're concerned about it, then just delete those meta tags.

www.jimcosoftware.com actually has a plugin to get ride of those particular
metas, it may work in FP2000; not sure about that.

Otherwise I expect you can just delete them from the code view.

They're not essential.

 

[Guest]

Thank you Mr. Murray - your reply was very helpful on resolving my minor
issue. Thanks again!