thanks to ben for the heads-up on the
safari tab colour issue. for a change it seems that mozilla allowed a bug in my
style sheet to slip through the net. i had set the hover color (don’t pick me
up on the spelling, colour in programming is spelt in the american format) to
transparent by mistake and both ie and firefox allowed it to pass. safari took
me at my word and made the text invisible when it was hovered over. a simple
fix as i just had to make it black instead and there is no difference in
display for ie or firefox.
apart from that minor issue i have now got search working properly for firefox
and safari and spent an hour or so playing with the meta-tags last night. i
hadn’t thought about search engines for a while and had assumed that meta tags are no
longer any use now that google owns the
world. however i found a good couple of sites to help set up the
tags properly, thinking that maybe in a few weeks i would get spidered. well in the 12
hours since i have been visited by most of the large search engines who have
completely spidered the (fairly limited) content on the site already.
an interesting side note that i am not sure about is that i had noticed in
domlog that some spider engines had already tried to visit the site last week
but had stopped when robots.txt was not returned to them as it does not exist by default on a domino server.
so to make sure there were no problems i put a blank file on the server. not
sure if it has made a difference but there is no overhead having it so it can’t
hurt.
