Help me please :)

[joanna1]

I have sucessfully set up a website i'm satisfied with in terms of design and content, but the search engines don't catch it because it doesn't include Meta tags and is not in html format. I chose the site i built it with for it's tasteful layout, the fact it's free, it's numerous possibilities and decent upload capacity but it just doesn't get picked up by search engines. I really prefer the design to all the different other free tools so i'd rather not change; moreover i've spent quite a lot of time on it. I've attempted to include html codes in it and it doesn't work. Can someone please help? I'll pm you the address.
I didn't even think of using html when I was building the site since it was possible to make it attractive simply by using the text boxes and fonts provided. Was it a big mistake?

I have little computer knowledge and work out things by myself in general - but there are a couple of things I'm stuck on apart from the html codes.
When you post a link, how do you change the name? Say you post a link to www.christianforums.com how do you get it to appear as "cool christian forum" or as an icon?

 

[csheppard91]

I didn't even think of using html when I was building the site since it was possible to make it attractive simply by using the text boxes and fonts provided. Was it a big mistake?

Not really. If you want a simple site then a generator is probably the best choice; however, if you want full control then you need to know some coding.

When you post a link, how do you change the name? Say you post a link to www.christianforums.com how do you get it to appear as "cool christian forum" or as an icon?

links are created with anchor tags that look like this:

<a href="http://www.christianforums.com">PUT YOUR TEXT HERE</a>

change 'PUT YOUR TEXT HERE' to whatever you want the text to be. If you want an image or something you can add an img tag:


<a href="http://www.christianforums.com"><img src="image.jpg" border="0" width="x" height="y"></a>

 

[joanna1]

Thanks a lot - i'll try however when i insert tags like that they appear in the web page just like that and don't work. Is there something i'm not doing?
ETA: tried it and didn't work.
Ok so i'm supposed to go to the web page editor, and just insert this at the place where I want it? Because in that case the generator i'm using is certainly not recognising it as a tag, just as normal text.
This is so frustrating. What am i doing wrong?

 

[csheppard91]

Thanks a lot - i'll try however when i insert tags like that they appear in the web page just like that and don't work. Is there something i'm not doing?
ETA: tried it and didn't work.
Ok so i'm supposed to go to the web page editor, and just insert this at the place where I want it? Because in that case the generator i'm using is certainly not recognising it as a tag, just as normal text.
This is so frustrating. What am i doing wrong?

If you're looking at an editor in design mode and typing this in, then it will show up 'as is'. You need to go DIRECTLY to the code and type in the code I gave you, or else it won't work.

 

[joanna1]

sorry i'm really thick ... what does go directly go to the code mean?

 

[csheppard91]

When you type this in, where are you typing it at? Do you see nothing but code or what?

 

[joanna1]

ok to put stuff on my page i go to web page editor.
My page then appears and i'm able to edit it.
Then i try and insert the code in my page at the place where i want it.
This is obviously the wrong idea.
I'm trying to work out what i missed.

 

[csheppard91]

What editor are you using?


to skip all the mess you can open up your webpage in notepad and add the code where you want it.