[Zope] re: Meta headers

Sat, 25 Sep 1999 18:01:42 -0400

Jonathon,

I'm not sure I understand the question entirely, but couldn't you just make
a DTML method called "meta_header_global" in the root of the object database
which contains:

<!-- everything from this point to the /head tag is constant for all pages
-->
<LINK REL = "Home"       HREF = "http://www.stamp-coin.com/index.html"
TITLE = "Stamp And Coin Shop Main Page">
<LINK REL = "Index"      HREF = "http://www.stamp-coin.com/sitemap.html"
TITLE = "Stamp And Coin Shop Site Map">
<LINK REL = "Toc"        HREF = "http://www.stamp-coin.com/links/index.html"
TITLE = "Stamp And Coin Shop Site Index">
<LINK REL = "Help"       HREF = "http://www.stamp-coin.com/links/help.html"
TITLE = "The Stamp And Coin Shop Web Site Navigation Help Page">
<LINK REL = "Copyright"  HREF =
"http://www.stamp-coin.com/links/copyright.html"   TITLE = "Stamp And Coin
Shop Copyright Page">
<LINK REL = "Glossary"   HREF =
"http://www.stamp-coin.com/links/abreviation.html" TITLE = "A Philatelic
Glossary">
<LINK REL = "Stylesheet" HREF =
"http://www.stamp-coin.com/common/default.css"      TYPE = "text/css">
<LINK REL = SCHEMA.VW96
HREF="http://vancouver-webpages.com/VWbot/VW96-schema.html">
<META NAME = "author"    CONTENT = "Jonathon Blake" >
<META NAME = "Generator" CONTENT = "Massage.py Version 1.0.15.1">
<META NAME = "VW96.objecttype" CONTENT = "Catalog">
<META NAME = "Robots" CONTENT = "All">
<LINK REV = "Made" HREF = "mailto:jblake@stamp-coin.com">
<META HTTP-EQUIV = "distribution" CONTENT = "global" >
<META HTTP-EQUIV = "reply-to" CONTENT = "jblake@stamp-coin.com" >
<META HTTP-EQUIV = "Resource-Type"       CONTENT = "catalog" >
<META HTTP-EQUIV = "Content-Style-Type"  CONTENT = "text/css" >
<META HTTP-EQUIV = "Content-Script-Type" CONTENT = "text/javascript" >
<META HTTP-EQUIV = "Content-language"    CONTENT = "en-US" >
<META HTTP-EQUIV = "Copyright"           CONTENT = "John Konrad / The Stamp
And Coin Shop 1999" >
<META NAME = "Rating" CONTENT = "General">
<META http-equiv="PICS-Label" content='(PICS-1.1
"http://www.adequate.com/ratings/" l gen true comment "ADEQUATE.com" for
"http://www.stamp-coin.com/index.html" r (WEB 2 v 0 s 0 l 0 d 0))'>
<META http-equiv="PICS-Label" content='(PICS-1.1
"http://www.rsac.org/ratingsv01.html" l gen true comment "RSACi North
America Server" by "jblake@stamp-coin.com" for "http://stamp-coin.com" on
"1999.06.21T17:51-0800" r (n 0 s 0 v 0 l 0))'>
<META http-equiv="PICS-Label" content='(PICS-1.1
"http://vancouver-webpages.com/VWP1.0/" l gen true comment "VWP1.0" by
"jblake@stamp-coin.com" on "1999.06.21T15:21-0700" for
"http://www.stamp-coin.com" r (MC 0 Gam -1 Com 3 SF 0 Edu -1 S 0 Can 0 V 0
Env 0 P 0 Tol 0 ))'>
<META http-equiv="PICS-Label" content='(PICS-1.1
"http://www.weburbia.com/safe/ratings.htm" l r (s 0))'>
<META http-equiv="PICS-Label" content='(PICS-1.1
"http://www.classify.org/safesurf/" l gen true for
"http://www.stamp-coin.com/" r (SS~~000 1))'>

Then for each different section in  your site that requires section-specific
meta-headers, create a "meta_header_local" DTML method in that folder.  Put
only the meta-header info in there that you need for that section.

Then in standard_html_header (at the root of your database, most likely, do
this):

<HTML>
<HEAD>
.
.
.
(stuff)
.
.
<!--#if meta_header_gloabl-->
  <!--#var meta_header_global-->
<!--#/if-->
<!--#if meta_header_local-->
  <--#var meta_header_local-->
<!--#/if-->
.
.
(stuff)
.
.
</HEAD>
</HTML>

This is classical factoring and aquisition.  Nothing special here.

HTH,

Chris

Jonathon wrote:

        I've been generating the pages for my web site using a
        couple of scripts, which enable me to somewhat customize
        the Meta Headers.  

        Now that I am moving the site to Zope, I still need those
        meta headers.  << Anybody who does ECommerce relies on 
        meta headers, to be in the search engines.  The simple
        rule is no meta headers, no indexing by the big five.  >>
        Keeping themeta data lines that are constant is easy.  Just 
        add it to standard_html_header.

        Is there a way to have the header data that changes for
        each page, somehow be incorporated into a one tag ---
        like the the current <!--#var standard_html_header -->
        would be the same on each page?  If so, how would I
        do it?  Going through the docs I don't see any mention
        of this "problem".  << For an ECommerce solution, that
        'problem' _might_ be enough to disqualify Zope, before
        anything else is looked at. >> 

        Doing those headers manually is not a viable option.
        << Can you produce 60 000 pages a week by hand? >>

        The following is a typical header.
        << Maybe atypical, in that it has slightly fewer keywords
        and a shorter description than most pages have.  >>

<HEAD>
<TITLE>
Konrad's Premium Stamps: Great Britain Scott # 1, Stanley Gibbons # 1,
Michel # 1
</TITLE>

<LINK REL = "Contents"   HREF = "index.html">
<LINK REL = "Next"       HREF = "john_www_15000.html">
<LINK REL = "Previous"   HREF = "john_www_14998.html">
<LINK REL = "Prev"       HREF = "john_www_14998.html">
<LINK REL = "Up"         HREF = "john_www_500_table.html">
<META NAME = "creation_date"  CONTENT = " Friday, 25 June 1999 12:00:00 GMT
" >
<META NAME = "last_update"    CONTENT = " Sunday, 19 September 1999 24:00:00
GMT " >
<META NAME = "expires"        CONTENT = " Wednesday, 1 October 1999 24:00:00
GMT " >
<META NAME = "revisit-after"  CONTENT = "10 days">
<META NAME = "Keywords"    CONTENT = "stamp-collection, Great Britain, Scott
# 1,Stanley Gibbons # 1b, Y-T # 1, Penny Black">
<META NAME = "Description" CONTENT = "Konrad's Premium Stamps: Great Britain
Scott # 1:  Superb Mint Never Hinged">
<!-- everything from this point to the begining head tag is different for
each page. -->

</HEAD>

        xan

        jonathon