Meta Tags

The code for a basic meta tag:
<meta name="" content="">
or
<meta http-equiv="" content="">

Meta tags are in your head section of your html document.  The meta tags help the spiders index your page.  You can redirect a webpage with a meta tag, control spiders, prevent certain browsers to function differently with a code and even set your page’s language with it.

Here is a list of interesting meta tags you can observe and use:

Description Meta tag:

<meta name=”description” content=”put your page description here” />

This is what appears in the search engines as your description, usually right under your page title when listed in search results.

Keywords Meta tag:

<meta name=”keywords” content=”put your keywords here” />

This code will help you get listed under correct search results.  You should write keywords that best fits your website.  You should also spererate your keywords with a comma. You can use the below example as a resource.

<meta name=”keywords” content=”how to create a free website, get a free website, what is a keyword” />

Redirection code:

<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="2 ; url=anotherpage.html">

The above code is set to refresh the page and redirect it to anotherpage.html in 2 seconds.  You can change these fields according to your needs.

Cache Prevention code:

<meta http-equiv="pragma" content="no-cache">

This code is useful when you update your pages a lot and you don’t want someone loading a page that has been cached on their system. It is supposed to keep a browser from caching your page. Some browsers will ignore the code and cache anyway.

Code to allow Index Follow for Search Engines (Google,Live ect.) :

<meta name="robots" content="index,follow">

This code will basically tell the robots to index whatever they find on your website.

Include Files

On this article, I will explain how to use Include files on Html, Asp, and Php files.  Most of the paid hosting companies allow you to use include files.  It is one of the best ways to control your fully loaded website.

Include files in Html

In html, you can use a simple code to include a file in another one.  So let’s say you have index.html and you want to add menu.html as an include file; so you would open the source code for index.html and add the following code:

<!--#include virtual="menu.html" -->

If you add this code to your index.html’s source html code and it doesn’t work, don’t give up.  Most hosting companies allow to add include files to only .shtml files.  So what you is easy and simple, just rename your index.html to index.shtml

Include files in Asp and Asp.NET

In asp it is very easy to add an include file to your source codes.  It is just like the code above for Html files but in a different words.  The code is:

<!–#include file=”example.asp” –>

YES! there is only one word difference.  Instead of “virtual” your going to use “file” to include a file.

Include files in Php

Include files in Php is the same concept.  The code is below:

<?php include("example.php"); ?>

You can use any type of files you wish to include.  If you have a page named menu.html  you can include this page into your Php or Asp coded page.  For example:

<?php include("menu.html"); ?>

Domain Transfer

On this article I will explain how to transfer your existing domain to a new registrar.  Every domain registrar has their own way of doing things differently, but I will explain the main process on this article.

What is a Domain Transfer ?

A domain transfer is when you transfer your existing domain name to a new registrar.

Why should I transfer my Domain ?

There might be many reasons for this cause.  Most popular one might be the price of the domain name and what the registrar offers you.  For example if you pay $10 for a domain name in a registrar, and get basic features, and if you pay $7 at another company and get the same features then you might think of transfering your domain name.  Sometimes the customer care and the user interfrence have affect aswell.

How to transfer a domain name to another register

FIrst, you need to have an account at the new registrar your planning to transfer your existing domain to.  Then you need to find the Authorization code (Auth Code) of the domain name your transfering.

When you get this code, go to your new registrar and submit atransfer inquiry, you need your Auth code for this inquiry.  When you submit this inquiry, your new registrar will send an email to your existing registrar informing it about the transfer, you must aprrove the transfer on this email to contuinue.

After this your domain should be able to transfer to your new registrar without any problems.  It might take couple days for you to recieve the  approval email.