Meta tags for writing blog, Query for entering meta tag Options

[Anatole]

Hey gang -

I have started a blog for posting my fiction. It would be great if I could enter a meta-tag for my blog for user searches. I read that meta-tags are disabled by xanga. After doing a search, I am wondering if there is a way around this as it will help me to promote my site.

A side question, I am wondering how to make the left side of my blog transparent. I KNOW THIS IS AN EASY QUESTION! lol! I have been on 3 xanga sties this week, but every code I have used to block out the borders and just leave the text doesn't seem to work... so I must be missing something obvious.

For referance, my blog is at http://www.xanga.com/anatole69

As I am using this site to promote my writing, any comments related to making the site work for that purpose will be much appreciated.

- Anatole

[lawmaniac_98]

uhh..what do u mean by making ur left side of the blog transparent?

[Pulchritude]

found one..

http://peachie.nu/
go to html tutorials on the left then website and html tutorials then meta tags
hope that works

[talcumpowder]

For the borders.....

CODE

<style type="text/css">
table.left {
/* this edits the menu module */
border: solid #Transparent; background-color: #Transparent;}
</style>

[largosama]

what specific meta tags do you need? Some, such as the redirect, workout arounds can be made with javscript

[Pulchritude]

^ yea it depends but the one i gave you is for like to advance your site.. like it will be hosted in search engines as in googles or yahoo.. soo u gotta explain more on what kind of meta tag

ok?

[Anatole]

Cool. Thanks for the info. I got my left module transparent. It still shows the lines to the borders, though. I will poke around with the code I put in to make borders and maybe I can figure out how to disable it for the left module. Any thoughts will be appreciated, though, if you already know how to solve this.

The html tutorial page is nice and I booked marked it... it requires I have a custom header for me to use. I've searched and searched for a header I could put in there in place of the Xanga one, but it seems you need to put in a whole new xanga skin in order to do this. I've looked for just a nice header, so if someone could point me in the right direction, that would be great as I spent the whole afternoon working on this.

I've noticed my load speed is slower now, would that be the .gif background I am using? I have DSL so the wait isn't too long, but I don't want the load up to be very slow for someon without DSL... do I need to get rid of the .gif?

Thanks!

- Anatole

[Pulchritude]

I've noticed my load speed is slower now, would that be the .gif background I am using? I have DSL so the wait isn't too long, but I don't want the load up to be very slow for someon without DSL... do I need to get rid of the .gif?

its cuz gif is a animation file and it probably takes up a lot of room so if its not a blinkies or stuff like that that requires gif i recomeen u changing to jpg.

[Anatole]

^ yea it depends but the one i gave you is for like to advance your site.. like it will be hosted in search engines as in googles or yahoo.. soo u gotta explain more on what kind of meta tag

ok? 

Yeah, I want a meta tag so that search engines will be able to pick up my site and increase my hits. If I got this right, to put your code in, I need to have a custom banner as well, since html will only work there... which means I can't put it into the custom module or java script boxes? Did I get this right?

[Anatole]

So thanks to the help of you guys, I got everything fixed... but I'm still not sure about the meta tags. I thought it had to go into the header cuz that's where it says to put html, but everytime I put it there, it got printed underneath my header... so everyone could see it.

I tried pasting it into the java box, and it stopped showing up on the screen, but I have no idea if that means it is now working... so if anyone could give me a holler back and let me know I did it right, I would appreciate it.

Thanks.

- Anatole

[hi-C]

Yeah, meta-tags don't work on Xanga. Sorry.