Table of Contents

  • Introduction
  • Content Editor
    · Introduction
    · Getting started
    · Creating files and directories
    · Edit files
    · Copying and moving files
    · Metadata
  • Templates
  • Version Control
  • Work Areas
  • Access Control
  • Editing Using Other Clients
  • Metadata
    Meta data is information that helps the server identifying a file and how to parse it and also helps search engines indexing the file correctly. Many tags use meta data to enhance the use of a site. A good thing with keeping meta data is that you don't need to put it inside HTML tags on every page. The template takes care of that by extracting wanted meta data from a file with the help of various tags which are discussed more thoroughly in the Template manual. It can be said that meta data controls the interaction between the template and the various pages on the site. If no meta data exists for a file, the server will not know how what to do with it and it will not be displayed correctly.

    In SiteBuilder there is a special meta data editor that helps you set the meta data right for a particular file. To access the meta data editor focus on the file and select Edit meta data under the Files tab. In the editor the following meta data can be set:

    Type
    The file type tells the server what to do with the file. For instance, an RXML file should be run through the RXML parser, an image should be scaled and shown to the visitor, a Word file should be run through a Word-to-HTML filter, and so on. The file types that SiteBuilder can treat in a meaningful way can be selected from a menu in the editor. For a change to take place, select the Change button.

    If the meta data is set to HTML, a template is needed. If the type is changed to a JPEG image, a template is no longer needed. The Change button either adds or subtracts the rows of meta data associated with a specific content type.

    Template
    Choose the template the file is to be associated with from the menu. The template provides your content with a structure and a layout.

    Language
    Choose the language the file is to be associated with. This helps when building a site with support for different languages. A tag can be made to fetch a file with a certain kind of language. This also helps a search engine sort files by their language.

    Title
    A title that describes the page more accurately than the file name can be entered. The title can then be fetched into the page header by a tag or used by a navigation index. This meta data option makes use of the <title> HTML-tag unnecessary.

    Keywords
    The document keywords helps search engines to index your site more efficiently according to the keywords you set.

    Description
    The document description helps search engines to provide their users with an extended description of the pages on your site.