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Pattern Patch Quilts

Jul 28, 2010 - 10:15AM

Site pages

My home page (index) is not being read properly by your hosting system. I have a title in the HTML, and it is coded correctly, yet when you visit my homepage, it says 'untitled' at the top. This can hurt my search engine standings. I want to know why my title is not appearing as it should when viewing my site pages.

Browser: Mozilla Firefox

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Jul 28th, 2010 - 10:15 AM

Courtnie from Bravenet

Jul 28, 2010 - 10:30AM

Re: Site pages

I think your main problem is that you are missing a body tag. The body tag opens after the closing head tag and closes before the closing html tag.

But it also looks like your head tag could be ending too soon.

Sami

Jul 28, 2010 - 10:57AM

Re: Site pages

Might look at your coding

Where you have opening title tag and closing title tag it lists your site as untitled

change the untitled part to the name of your site that you want it to be save and publish

Then fix your links on your pages as well and your broken images also.

Am sure you are trying to put all these together.

Need to make sure all your links and more are correct too. Especially if you are using this as a business site

Courtnie from Bravenet

Jul 28, 2010 - 11:00AM

Re: Site pages

Bravenet injects the untitled title tag with the ads, unfortunately there is no way to change that title tag.

But I am pretty sure adding the body tag your own code will fix your problem - I tested it out myself. It is possible to over-write the bravenet title tag - you just have to have your page coded correctly.

Pattern Patch Quilts

Aug 3, 2010 - 9:28PM

Re: Site pages

WOW! FAIL! I couldnt even post my html coding, even though it says right above this text box that Im typing in it says "bb code and html allowed"

Well obviously it didn't read it separately.

Bottom line: My code contains my HEAD tags, my TITLE tags and my BODY tags.....

Browser: Mozilla Firefox

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Aug 3rd, 2010 - 9:28 PM

Peter

Aug 4, 2010 - 2:47AM

Re: Site pages

Courtnie did look. I looked as well and found exactly the same fault. You have no body tag in your code.

Because of the way that the ads are injected into your page the lack of a body tag means that your own head tag is ignored.

YOU MUST HAVE A BODY TAG FOR IT TO WORK.

Website

Aug 4th, 2010 - 2:47 AM

Courtnie from Bravenet

Aug 4, 2010 - 9:28AM

Re: Site pages

I had to delete your post because it broke this form. In future, please don't post HTML code in this form without putting it in code tags. HTML code being allowed means for styling purpose, not for posting your entire webpage. It must be wrapped in BB code tags, if you need to know how to use them - click on the BB code link.

Pattern Patch Quilts

While I appreciate the help, I noticed that none of you actually looked at my HTML coding. Either that, or Bravenet is hiding it.

Here is the top portion of my coding:

Code:

<head><title>Pattern Patch Quilts: Quilt Patterns and Quilt Block Patterns</title>

Oh look! There's my title HTML!

Code:

<style> <!-- a{text-decoration:none;} --> [/style]

<meta name="keywords" content="quilt patterns, quilts, table runners, wall hangings, bom">

<meta name="description" content="Quilt Patterns in PDF format. Choose from Table Runners, Wall Hangings, Lap Quilts and more. A Block of the Month (BOM) is coming soon.">

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

<meta name="robots" content="noodp">

<meta name="robots" content="noydir">

</head>

And there's where my heading ends too!

Code:

<style type="text/css">body

Ah Ha! My body begins right here!

So yea, I have title HTML, Head HTML and Body HTML....still shows as Untitled

I did ACTUALLY look at your code, I am looking at again. If you look at what I wrote again and read it carefully maybe you would see your problem.

Your head tag is ending before your CSS styles, your CSS styles should be in your head tag, therefor, your closing head tag is in the wrong place. I NEVER said it was missing.

I said you are missing your BODY tag and that is your real problem. If you add the body tag in the correct place in your code your title tag will work.

Also, the body you posted, IS NOT THE BODY TAG! It part of the CSS I was talking about that is after you ending head tag.

Here is the top part of your code in full

Code:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">

<html>

<head>

<title>Pattern Patch Quilts: Quilt Patterns and Quilt Block Patterns</title>

<style> <!-- a{text-decoration:none;} --> </style>

<meta name="keywords" content="quilt patterns, quilts, table runners, wall hangings, bom">

<meta name="description" content="Quilt Patterns in PDF format. Choose from Table Runners, Wall Hangings, Lap Quilts and more. A Block of the Month (BOM) is coming soon.">

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

<meta name="robots" content="noodp">

<meta name="robots" content="noydir">

</head>

<style type="text/css">body {background-image: url("http://patternpatchquilts.com/images/brown_cream_bck.jpg"); background-position: center; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-attachment: fixed; }</style><div id="tag" style=" left:10px; top:30px; z-index:50;width:172px; height:51px;"></div>

<br><font size="4"><CENTER><img src="http://patternpatchquilts.com/images/quilt_site_title.jpg" width="750" height="200" alt="Pattern Patch Quilts"><BR>

<a href="http://patternpatchquilts.com/patterns_list.htm"><font size="4"><font color="#3f5668">-Patterns-</a>

<a href="http://patternpatchquilts.com/blockpatterns.htm"><font color="#3f5668">-Quilt Blocks-</a>

<a href="http://patternpatchquilts.com/newsletters"><font color="#3f5668">-Newsletter-</a>

<a href="http://patternpatchquilts.com"><font color="#3f5668">-Home-</a>

<center>

As you can see, there is no body tag, there is only styling for the body in your css, like so:

Code:

<style type="text/css">body {background-image: url("http://patternpatchquilts.com/images/brown_cream_bck.jpg"); background-position: center; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-attachment: fixed; }</style>

So if you move your closing head tag to the correct location and insert a real body tag it would look something like this:

Code:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">

<html>

<head>

<title>Pattern Patch Quilts: Quilt Patterns and Quilt Block Patterns</title>

<style> <!-- a{text-decoration:none;} --> </style>

<meta name="keywords" content="quilt patterns, quilts, table runners, wall hangings, bom">

<meta name="description" content="Quilt Patterns in PDF format. Choose from Table Runners, Wall Hangings, Lap Quilts and more. A Block of the Month (BOM) is coming soon.">

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

<meta name="robots" content="noodp">

<meta name="robots" content="noydir">

<style type="text/css">body {background-image: url("http://patternpatchquilts.com/images/brown_cream_bck.jpg"); background-position: center; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-attachment: fixed; }</style>

</head>

<body>

<div id="tag" style=" left:10px; top:30px; z-index:50;width:172px; height:51px;"></div>

<br><font size="4"><CENTER><img src="http://patternpatchquilts.com/images/quilt_site_title.jpg" width="750" height="200" alt="Pattern Patch Quilts"><BR>

<a href="http://patternpatchquilts.com/patterns_list.htm"><font size="4"><font color="#3f5668">-Patterns-</a>

<a href="http://patternpatchquilts.com/blockpatterns.htm"><font color="#3f5668">-Quilt Blocks-</a>

<a href="http://patternpatchquilts.com/newsletters"><font color="#3f5668">-Newsletter-</a>

<a href="http://patternpatchquilts.com"><font color="#3f5668">-Home-</a>

<center>

Don't forget to close your body tag before the closing HTML tag. That really should fix your problem.

Just for the recode, a page should look something like this:

Code:

<html>

<head>

your title, meta tags, css, etc

</head>

<body>

your page content

</body>

</html>

Courtnie