Meta Tags!
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Client Pull Example
A
client pull allows the server to tell the browser to load a certain document
in a certain number of seconds. For example: This document will reload
itself once every 180 seconds. The meta tag tells the browser to request
this page again every 3 minutes.
For example:
<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE>Meta Tags Example</TITLE>
<META NAME="Author" CONTENT="Rick Alexander">
<META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Mozilla/3.01Gold (Win95;
I) [Netscape]">
<META NAME="Description" CONTENT="Great HELP
For Web Page Creation">
<META HTTP-EQUIV="Refresh" CONTENT="180">
<META NAME="KeyWords" CONTENT="HTML Help, HTML Tag Info,
Free Web Tips, Charts">
</HEAD>
<BODY>
The body of the page
</BODY></HTML>
The
line <META HTTP-EQUIV="Refresh"CONTENT=180>
tells the browser to request the page again in 180 seconds. Some sites
use this type of client pull to refresh a document such as stock quotes
or a video camera pointed at a city street.
The Auto Move Command
If
you move from one server to another and you need your Guests to update
their bookmarks and find your new location put this line between the <HEAD>
and </HEAD>
<META HTTP-EQUIV="REFRESH"
CONTENT="3;URL=the new location's URL">
The
3 means the guest stays 3 seconds on the page before they transfer to the
new URL that you put at the end of the command line.You can change the
number of seconds.
<META HTTP-EQUIV="REFRESH"
CONTENT="3;URL=../mtea.html">
The META Tags
The name of the web master
<META NAME="Author" CONTENT="Rick Alexander">
The name of your navigator
<META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Mozilla/3.01Gold
(Win95; I) [Netscape]">
The description of your page
<META NAME="Description" CONTENT="Great HELP For Web Page Creation">
Key words described your page for the search engines
<META NAME="KeyWords" CONTENT="HTML Help, HTML Tag Info,
Free Web Tips, Charts">
All the META tags have to be between <HEAD> and </HEAD>
Update your page
Most WWW browsers will keep copy of your pages (cache) to speed-up your visits to those pages. To help the browser to decide how long a cached copy of your pages should be used before retrieving a newer copy, you could use the following META tags:
<META HTTP-EQUIV="Expires" CONTENT="Friday, 26 Mar 1998 13:00:00 CST">
The
META tag should be placed in between your <HEAD>and</HEAD>
tags. Also the date should be a date in the past so that the browser will
immediately discard the cached copy or not cache at all.
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