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

[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