I have a site that was originally done using the box model but I have now recreated everything from scratch with a few changes using the relative page layout action.
The site is just about finished and almost ready to upload, except that I would like to add the H tags h1,h2, h3 etc. for SEO purposes. In the styles palette I can select the appropriate tag for each block of text and input the CSS styling I want. When I see it in page layout it all looks correct but the moment I go to preview mode or view in a browser it changes to something that looks like a standard Times font at default size. How can I ensure that the H tags work properly and maintain the desired appearance on text?
OK I’ve discovered that I had to select an area of text rather than an item containing text. Right now I can apply the H tag, which will subsequently maintain the correctly styled font, size, alignment and colour to the selected text, however, it is always bold, even though I haven’t selected bold as a style. It looks correct in Page mode but goes bold in Preview. Does anybody know how to fix this?
Yes. It’s a pain in the posterior, though. Control-click on your Hn
tag, and choose Edit Style. In the resulting dialog, click the
Extended button. Then click New, and add the following Name/Value pair:
Name: font-weight
Value: normal
For extra measure, you can also add a second pair:
Name: font-style
Value: normal
Okay out of the teetering stack of dialog boxes, and publish again.
Your style should appear the way you want it to. I consider this an
interface bug, or if I’ve been drinking (and am thereby feeling
charitable and warm), a documentation bug. It still crawls like a bug.
Walter
On Oct 20, 2010, at 2:52 PM, Ashley wrote:
OK I’ve discovered that I had to select an area of text rather than
an item containing text. Right now I can apply the H tag, which will
subsequently maintain the correctly styled font, size, alignment and
colour to the selected text, however, it is always bold, even though
I haven’t selected bold as a style. It looks correct in Page mode
but goes bold in Preview. Does anybody know how to fix this?
Thanks Walter, that has solved it. I did as you suggested and added the second point just for good measure. It looks correct in Preview mode now and shows up properly in the source code on the web page. Wow, at long last!!
Regarding the implementation though I’d have to agree that Softpress need to make this operate in a more transparent fashion that makes sense. I’d prefer to have it shown clearly as part of the interface without needing to write additional text, but failing that the documentation needs to be much clearer.
SEO is important and since we have the option of H1 tags etc. it’s natural that people will want to maintain styling over that text at the same time.
To be a bullet list you need to use list tags (<ul/dl/ol>), which can’t be contained within h tags. This isn’t a restriction in Freeway but in HTML itself.
Joe
On 20 Oct 2010, at 21:04, Ashley wrote:
I’ve just discovered that h tags don’t work with text separated by bullet points which is a pain.
Hi Joe,
I was doing this using the List > Indent > Default option in the inspector palette. I hear it works though if you use Alt + 8 instead. I have to run out now but I’ll try it when I get back.
But you can do the opposite – make a list and fill it with Hn tags.
(Don’t put more than one H1 on your page, but by all means fill a list
with H3 tags or whatever.)
Walter
On Oct 21, 2010, at 6:22 AM, Joe Billings wrote:
Hi Ashley,
To be a bullet list you need to use list tags (<ul/dl/ol>), which
can’t be contained within h tags. This isn’t a restriction in
Freeway but in HTML itself.
Joe
On 20 Oct 2010, at 21:04, Ashley wrote:
I’ve just discovered that h tags don’t work with text separated by
bullet points which is a pain.