Re: Thanks - re DW templates

One option that can save time if your meta's are identical for all
pages:

1) move the tags to your title's editable area as you suggest, and
then update pages.  Your existing pages now have no meta tags.

2) copy the title tag from an existing page that does not have the
metas.

3) do a site-wide search-and-replace for this tag, replacing it
with itself AND the metas

It's best to try this with just one page, first, though....make
sure the result is what you want...:)

D

----- Original Message -----
From: "Henry John Boleszny" <henryb(at)seaeagle.aunz.com>
To: "Techniques - HWG" <hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org>
Sent: Sunday, February 18, 2001 4:25 AM
Subject: Thanks - re DW templates


Thanks to all list members who replied on and off list regarding
the DW
templates and meta tag issue.  I'd already tried most of the
suggestions and
am beginning to think that maybe library items are going to be a
better
choice.

Recommendations of including the meta tags in the title tag
editable region
were good - except that the template promptly lost all but the
title content
when I saved and tried to apply that template to a web page.

I could have a buggy version of DW 3, though other posts suggest
this is a
real coding issue within the program and not my version.

This leaves me with an interesting question - do I accept the
missing meta
tags for those pages which I wasn't going to register with search
engines
anyway?  Or, do I now dissociate pages from templates and use
library
objects instead (about a day's worth of work to convert)? Hmm...

Thanks everyone, at least I can rule out my program and computer
as being
the culprits this time <grin>.

Sincerely,

Henry John Boleszny
  Business & Web Site Consultant
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