Frontpage 2002 icons in page view different

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Frontpage 2002 icons in page view different

some icons different than others... don't know why

skateboardsales

3:00 am on Jan 27, 2004 (gmt 0)

i have noticed this for a long time, and i thought i knew why it happened, but my theory was just shot down....

when in page view, the icons for some of my pages is an internet explorer "e" on top of a page, and for others it is a frontpage icon on top of a page...

i thought it was because i had my site optimized by an outside firm that placed some bit of html in my <head> that made the page different, but recently i have been modifying the code, to make my site more "accurate" (the outside firm had me place the same <head> on every page of my site), and in doing so, have replaced the <head> html from all the internet explorer e pages with html from one of the frontpage icon pages, and then hand-coded in the different title and descriptions...

but the pages' icons don't change back to frontpage icons, and i am now confused. what determines which icon a given page will get?

wickydoodah

8:23 am on Jan 27, 2004 (gmt 0)

Very simple... look for the following two meta tags in the <head> section of your page:

If your page has these meta tags, then FrontPage will show its small blue 'FP' icon for that page. If these meta tags are not present, then it shows a 'generic' icon (small 'e'). FrontPage uses these meta tags to identify itself as the program that created the page (so it gets the FP icon). If no meta tags, then FrontPage assumes another program created it, so your page gets the generic icon. These meta tags really serve no other purpose, so they are safe to remove or leave in your pages. I usually remove them (in FP2003 you now have the option whether to have them inserted or not).

I suspect that when you replaced your <head> section with what the outside firm gave you, it did not contain these meta tags. But if you add them back into your <head> section, the FP icon will reappear. Give it a try and you should find this is the case.

One note: when adding/removing these meta tags, you'll need to 'refresh' your web using the refresh menu command before the icons will change. They will also change if you close then reopen Frontpage.

skateboardsales

7:14 pm on Jan 27, 2004 (gmt 0)

thanks a ton.... that was it... but they don't refresh automatically when you close and reopen frontpage, you have to hit refresh for it to work (or at least i did).

i guess someday i might get this program learned... hehe, of course by then, i'll upgrade to FP2003, and will have start learning all the new stuff....

thanks again.