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User: Joe G. 11 years ago
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I have a pretty basic iWeb site I would like to reproduce in a few ways with EverWeb. One of the ways is how my Header text and an image is displayed on my pages. Example: Header Text and Image The way I do that in iWeb is by using the built in Header Text Box and then inserting the image, which is simple to do. How would I create the same effect in EverWeb. Add text box and then use an image fill?? Also, on a Blank Page/Window/Show Layout, there is a blue line near the top of the page. Is the space above the line for text or is that where the Navigation Menu goes. So many Questions!! |
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User: Roddy 11 years ago
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Hey Joe, welcome to the wonderful world of EverWeb! The area above the line is the header. Its height can be adjusted in the Page inspector... http://everwebcodebox.com/layout/page-layout.html Drag the image onto the page and command drag it into the header. You can also check the box in the Metrics inspector to allow free dragging. HTML headings can be inserted using code... http://everwebcodebox.com/layout/headings.html ... or a widget... http://everwebcodebox.com/widgetbox/basic-widgets/html-headings.html http://everwebcodebox.com/widgetbox/layout/fonts-headings.html http://everwebcodebox.com/html5/html5-text/html5-heading.html ------------------------------- Roddy Website: http://everwebwidgets.com Contact: http://everwebwidgets.com/ewWidgets-home/contact.html NOTE: I am an EverWeb user and NOT affiliated with EverWeb! Any opinions expressed in this forum are my own. |
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User: Joe G. 11 years ago
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Hi Roddy, It will be a pleasure being able to ask you all my many eventual questions!! The main thing is I want to protect all my search engine rankings I now how with my iWeb site. So if I drag a text box into the header area and add text, that text seems like it would do nothing in terms of SEO, unlike iWeb. The SEO in EverWeb occurs in the Inspector/Page/Web Page Title. . Is that correct. It must be because text in the header does not show up in the browser as the page title (only as index.html). Only when the Page Title is filled in the Inspector does it show in the browser as the page title. So is the Header and Footer in EverWeb only used in conjunction with Header/Footer Code? Hope this makes sense. |
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User: Roddy 11 years ago
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Unlike iWeb, EverWeb inserts the title - via the Page inspector - into the correct place in the page HTML doc. By having the same page file names and content as your iWeb built site you will preserve the SEO. A text box in the header will be "read" by the spiders but it's more effective for SEO if HTML headings are used. For example, you would use an h1 tag to enclose the "Cape Cod Upholstery Shop" as this is the most important part. Then use an h2 for "Joe Gramm Owner / Upholsterer" and h3 for the location info. The paragraph headings such as "Welcome to Cape Cod Upholstery Shop" would be enclosed in an h4. Laying out the headings this way creates a hierarchy and tells the spiders that these are keywords and the order of their importance. This is far more effective than enclosing everything in text boxes which only create paragraphs which are the lowest in importance. Images are better inserted using a widget like these... http://everwebcodebox.com/widgetbox/image/image-insert.html ... which allow you to insert alt text for the spiders. Even better is to insert images using the HTML5 figure element which encloses the image in a container along with the caption (figcaption). Then the spiders know that both the alt text and the caption are related to the image... http://everwebcodebox.com/widgetbox/image/fig-caption.html The absolute best way for SEO is to use an HTML5 section element to contain a heading, image, alt text, caption and text description all in the same container. Here's an example of how this produces far better results... http://everwebcodebox.com/html5/design/seo.html This can be achieved easily using the widgets shown here... http://everwebcodebox.com/html5/html5-image/image-widgets.html In terms of SEO, EverWeb will produce a far better website than iWeb ever could. ------------------------------- Roddy Website: http://everwebwidgets.com Contact: http://everwebwidgets.com/ewWidgets-home/contact.html NOTE: I am an EverWeb user and NOT affiliated with EverWeb! Any opinions expressed in this forum are my own. |
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User: Joe G. 11 years ago
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Thanks for all the links Roddy. I can see I have a learning curve ahead of me, but this will be a good way to learn a lot more about building my site(s). As for my page names, it looks like I'll be able to keep all the page names and URLs with the exception of my Home page. iWeb creates the URL as capecodupholstery.com/furniture_upholstery_home.html, where EverWeb is simply capecodupholstery.com. So a 301 redirect should take care of that. |
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