Crediting Freeway in HTML Code

Is there any way to remove the meta name=“GENERATOR” content=“Freeway 5 Pro 5.2.1”> from your HTML code?

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Is there any way to remove the meta name=“GENERATOR”
content=“Freeway 5 Pro 5.2.1”> from your HTML code?

Sure - just go to Page > Meta Tags to open the Meta Tags dialog, then
delete the ‘GENERATOR’ meta tag that’s put there by default.

Out of interest, why do you want to do this?

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Some clients ask for it to be removed.


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On 2 Oct 2008, 4:14 pm, Paul wrote:

Some clients ask for it to be removed.

The other reason would be the general prejudice against html that has been “generated” as opposed to hand written believing it is inferior. Unreasonable? Yep.


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That’s pretty funny. If you look at any Plone-driven site (and Plone
is the most geek-friendly and mortal-unfriendly CMS I have ever
encountered) you will see a generator tag crediting Plone. I agree
that this is an unreasonable assumption. “Generated” sure doesn’t
mean “Not Designed” or “Not Engineered”.

Walter

On Oct 2, 2008, at 12:20 PM, chuckamuck wrote:

On 2 Oct 2008, 4:14 pm, Paul wrote:

Some clients ask for it to be removed.

The other reason would be the general prejudice against html that
has been “generated” as opposed to hand written believing it is
inferior. Unreasonable? Yep.


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On 2 Oct 2008, at 17:26, Walter Lee Davis wrote:

That’s pretty funny. If you look at any Plone-driven site (and Plone
is the most geek-friendly and mortal-unfriendly CMS I have ever
encountered) you will see a generator tag crediting Plone. I agree
that this is an unreasonable assumption. “Generated” sure doesn’t
mean “Not Designed” or “Not Engineered”.

Absolutely. I always leave these turned on in both Freeway and
RapidWeaver. In my opinion, using either of these applications shows
that I’m clued up, I’m advertising my savvy, and if my clients object
to that, I don’t want to work with them. Although I do realise that
not everyone is in a position to do that …

best wishes,

Paul Bradforth

http://www.paulbradforth.com


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You can’t remove the tag. As soon as your republish the document and pages it re-input’s it in there.

It’s Softpress’ form of credit. I’ve never had a complaint from a client about it. Are people offended by generators?


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In my experience when applying for contract work in corporate America it’s not that they’re offended by generator apps but very questioning of your skillset. In one case I was told I was out of the running for a gig because the company, after looking at the code of my example sites, saw the FW tag and assumed I was a WYSIWYG chimp with no coding skill. It’s gotten to the point where I don’t list FW in my resume as software I know how to use or mention it interviews because it hurts my chances for getting corporate work. There’s already too much competition and I can’t afford to make it even harder for myself. Instead I focus on the fact that I can code because usually that’s what most corporate jobs expect. Is it fair? Probably not but that’s been my reality, such as it is.

Todd

On Oct 2, 2008, at 1:21 PM, Dan J wrote:

I’ve never had a complaint from a client about it. Are people offended by generators?

Yeah, usually my clients are just impressed with the design and project experience more than being a die-hard code-junky. But i’ve seen it flipped as well over nitty gritty details.

Thanks for sharing the experience Todd.

Interesting.


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If you remove it on the Master rather than the specific pages that should do the trick.

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I tried that Dave and if I do a full republish of my site, it then re-adds it on there again. I don’t think you can remove it permanently without doing some program code digging.


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I was concerned that people would see a generator and not credit me for my general design skills. There is a perception that people who don’t hand code are lesser designers or amateurs, if you will. I started web design with Rapidweaver and felt it to be too basic for my needs. Then I went to Dreamweaver and I felt like it was too convoluted. I drank the hand coding kool-aid and started CSS in Dreamweaver but felt like I couldn’t get anywhere. Then I read about Freeway. So far so good. I think the manual is exceedingly dense but that’s another thread :slight_smile:


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If there’s specific parts of the manual that seem “dense” it’s worth asking. I always need new topics to be covered in my screen-cast’s and don’t hesitate to ask.

I may have one ready…already.


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If you remove it from the Master, that will affect all new pages you
create after that point, and if you have never done anything else
with that particular part of the master/child inheritance (and this
is the big IF in this case) then it might (but should) remove it from
all of the children as well.

But in my experience, this is not always the case. So if you remove
it from the master, then go through each child and remove it there
(if present) and then re-publish, you should see it gone everywhere.
And stay gone.

Walter

On Oct 2, 2008, at 7:15 PM, Dan J wrote:

I tried that Dave and if I do a full republish of my site, it then
re-adds it on there again. I don’t think you can remove it
permanently without doing some program code digging.


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Well I wouldn’t say it didn’t re-add it if I didn’t go ahead and try it first. You can remove it and then publish and such but if you ever do a “Publish Everything” it puts it back in there. I tried it a few times on my end and it kept putting it back in there in both old and new documents.


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What version of Freeway are you using? I just did this as well, I
don’t like to make blanket statements that I can’t support. Just to
be sure, I also engaged Publish Everything on my test document, and
no, it didn’t come back. You do have to go through every page and
make sure that you have deleted it on all of the child pages – not
just the Master. If you have added any of your own META tags at the
page level, you have broken the master/child relationship for all
meta tags (including GENERATOR) for that page.

Walter

On Oct 3, 2008, at 10:31 AM, Dan J wrote:

Well I wouldn’t say it didn’t re-add it if I didn’t go ahead and
try it first. You can remove it and then publish and such but if
you ever do a “Publish Everything” it puts it back in there. I
tried it a few times on my end and it kept putting it back in there
in both old and new documents.


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I’m using 5.2.1. I just re-did it and it still does it. I’m using a Master page, goes to META tag, sees the generator tag, click’s on it, delete’s it, publishes, refreshes, see’s it’s gone in the code, back to Freeway, ctrl+publish everything, refreshes browser, view’s source…generator code put back in.

It’s cool Walt, just happens to be the case on my system.


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Hmm. Might be a bug. I’m on 5.1.1 on this machine (the one I checked on).

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I also am using 5.2.1 but I am not getting this reappearing Meta stuff!

Even did Publish Everything - no reappearance - OSX 4.11

Anybody other than Dan getting this?

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It’s not that big of a deal. I could care less as to whether it’s there or not since I usually end up hand-coding things after-wards. If need be I can screen-record what I did and show you that it does come back in the coding on my end, but in the long run it’d be unnecessary for my time.

But if need be.


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