search engines meta tags and foreign languages | WPDFD.com Forums http://www.wpdfd.com/forums/wpdfd/promotion/search_engines_meta_tags_and_foreign_languages/ A Promotion forum thread at WPDFD.com en-us 02/22/05, 053 29 2005 2005:%i:1109057350 01:29:10 09/05/08, 249 18 2008 2008:%i:1220649485 16:18:05 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss NineLabs Framework Feed Generator sitemaster@wpdfd.com sitemaster@wpdfd.com Bradanderson said: http://www.wpdfd.com/forums/wpdfd/promotion/search_engines_meta_tags_and_foreign_languages/#p1790 My second question is, if an index page is written in another language, do search engines from other primary language sites still crawl it? (ex) Will google US crawl a Japanese encoded page, and vice-versa?
Thanks for your input,
Brad
I Did That Photography - www.ididthat.biz
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Google will index English words in pages produced in other languages but won't translate from Japanese to English and then index the English. In your instance, the getting the encoding statement correct would be paramount.

I can't get through to either of your sites to look at your markup but you should run it through W3C Validator to check that you are doing things correctly.

PS I have a D100 too. Great camera ;?)]]> 02/22/05, 053 20 2005 2005:%i:1109082021 08:20:21 http://www.wpdfd.com/forums/wpdfd/promotion/search_engines_meta_tags_and_foreign_languages/#p1791 Bradanderson said: http://www.wpdfd.com/forums/wpdfd/promotion/search_engines_meta_tags_and_foreign_languages/#p1792 Funny my site being down. Before this reply I noticed that too, and already have a help call pending with my ISP.
I would really appreciate it if you would take a look at my CSS when you get a chance. There are two files for the bridalsnap site. One is at www.bridalsnap.com/styles/ie.css and the other is named jmenu.css in the same directory. I imagine that since it's my first attempt, it's quite sloppy and redundant. Any tips would be appreciated!
Brad]]> 02/22/05, 053 09 2005 2005:%i:1109084992 09:09:52 http://www.wpdfd.com/forums/wpdfd/promotion/search_engines_meta_tags_and_foreign_languages/#p1792 Joe Gillespie said: http://www.wpdfd.com/forums/wpdfd/promotion/search_engines_meta_tags_and_foreign_languages/#p1793

http://validator.w3.org/check?verbose=1&uri=http%3A//www.bridalsnap.com/

Then check the CSS at

http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/validator?profile=css2&warning=2&uri=http%3A//www.bridalsnap.com/

it's complaining about semi-colons.

Strictly speaking, there should not be a space before the colons, only after.]]> 02/22/05, 053 22 2005 2005:%i:1109096574 12:22:54 http://www.wpdfd.com/forums/wpdfd/promotion/search_engines_meta_tags_and_foreign_languages/#p1793 Bradanderson said: http://www.wpdfd.com/forums/wpdfd/promotion/search_engines_meta_tags_and_foreign_languages/#p1794 One more question. My opening (index page) on the bridalsnap site was made using tables simply because I wanted the nice transparent rollovers with the background jpg image. Is there a simpler way to do the same look using CSS? I was in a hurry to make that page and launch the site, and just threw together what I knew instead of reasearching deeper .
Brad]]> 02/22/05, 053 43 2005 2005:%i:1109130214 21:43:34 http://www.wpdfd.com/forums/wpdfd/promotion/search_engines_meta_tags_and_foreign_languages/#p1794 Joe Gillespie said: http://www.wpdfd.com/forums/wpdfd/promotion/search_engines_meta_tags_and_foreign_languages/#p1795 bradanderson said:
Thanks for taking a look. I've been using a separate CSS editor to write the code and not DW. That may explain why there are spaces before the colons. Do you have a suggested "freeware" program that you use to write the CSS?

I use BBEdit on Mac and occasionally TopStyle on Windows but neither are freeware. StyleMaster is pretty good too and doesn't cost much. http://www.westciv.com/style_master/

There is a 30 day demo.

As far as freeware is concerned, check out Nvu

http://www.nvu.com/

but bear in mind that you get what you pay for.


One more question. My opening (index page) on the bridalsnap site was made using tables simply because I wanted the nice transparent rollovers with the background jpg image. Is there a simpler way to do the same look using CSS? I was in a hurry to make that page and launch the site, and just threw together what I knew instead of reasearching deeper .
Brad


I have an article about this here

http://www.wpdfd.com/editorial/wpd1104news.htm#feature
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