Meta Tags for Search Engines to index your page
Hide e-mail addresses on your website
Website Statistics
Understanding the Acronyms
Cool Internet Explorer Shortcuts
Create your own icon in favorites
Automatically forward to another Page
How fast is your connection?
Adding meta tags allows search engines to know more information about your site. FrontPage or Dreamweaver already adds some for you automatically, for example to say that this page was designed using FrontPage, you can add some with your name as Author, a page description and some keywords to get a higher hit with the search engines. You can enter them manually in the HTML head at the top of the page
With your page open right click on a blank space and choose 'page properties'. Click the Custom tab. Add the following tags:
Author
Description
Keywords
Most web-hosts provide some sort of statistics for you to see how many visitors come to your pages. Just ask them if you don't know how to access it.
Your web-host may also have a counter available for you to put on your web-pages. Look in your control panel or ask them.
If you are using a web-host which has FrontPage Server extensions installed and you are using FrontPage to create your site, you can also insert a counter to count the number of visitors to your page.
If an Internet Explorer 6 user chooses to put your page in his/her Favorites list, you can change the icon to your own choice by making a 32x32 windows icon file called favicon.ico and putting it in the root of your web. Use the image editor tool in Windows Resource kit or shareware tools (try www.icon-editor.net). After it is in the favorites list the icon also appears on the left of the address bar.
To automatically redirect all visitors to another page use:
<meta http-equiv="Refresh" content="0;
URL=http://www.somedomain.com/path/file.html">
Want to know what http, html and ftp stand for? www.whatis.com explains many computer terms in layman's terms and gives links to other sites that explain even more.
When typing an address in the box, pressing ctrl-enter automatically adds www. before the name and .com after it.
Junk e-mailers sometimes have their computers read through websites picking up any listed e-mail addresses to send junk e-mails to. You can hide e-mail addresses on your website by doing the following:
For some text to be underlined like 'e-mail us" to send
an e-mail to info@yourdomain.com. Replace everything between the anchors
(and the anchors themselves <a> and </a>) with this code in the html
<script
language=javascript>
<!--
var underlinedbit = "e-mail us"
var firstbit = "info"
var secondbit = "yourdomain.com"
document.write("<a href=" + "mail" + "to:" +
firstbit + "@" + secondbit+ ">"
+
underlinedbit + "</a>")
//-->
</script>
You can't see this working in the Frontpage 'normal' view but it works fine in 'preview' and of course live.
If you want people to be able to read your e-mail address you can get a graphic to replace the text. Just press PrtScn (on the keyboard top right) and then paste it into a picture editor and crop it down to the part you want. However, it is hard to line it up in normal text. You could also try putting the whole sentence or paragraph in graphic form or more easily putting the e-mail address on its own line. Then you need to change the words in 'underlined bit' to the graphic image. The code will look like this:
<script
language=javascript>
<!--
var underlinedbit = "<img border=0 src=images/emailinfo.jpg>"
var firstbit = "info"
var secondbit = "yourdomain.com"
document.write("<a href=" + "mail" + "to:" +
firstbit + "@" + secondbit+ ">"
+
underlinedbit + "</a>" )
//-->
</script>
Recently, my ISP said they had given me a free upgrade to 6Mbps connection. That's nice I thought - but how do I know (my connection has always been pretty fast - but I hadn't noticed any particular improvement recently). I tested with a tool from a website (PC Pitstop) which told me I had a speed of around 1.5Mbps.
I called my ISP for some clarification. They told me that I shouldn't test using an American website as there may be some speed variation due to the internet being busy. They suggested I go to their website and try to download a large file and look at the file download speed.
According to them, a file download speed of 400-600 KB/sec (Kilo Bytes per second) shows a connection speed of 6 Mbps (Mega bits per second). I did the calculation myself (1 Mbps = 2^20 = 1,048,576 bps so 6 Mbps = 6,291,456 bps. Then 1 byte = 8 bits and 1 KB = 2^10=1024 bytes. So by my calculation the speed should be 768 KB/sec but overheads always cause some loss in speed from the theoretical value so this seems like a reasonable estimate - and they had upgraded my line correctly.