Dumb Question: H1 Header Tags

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All - this is a 'newby' question from a 'ewby', but I need an answer
nonetheless as I can find none elsewhere on the web!

1. How do I create an 'H1 Header Tag' in FP2000?
2. When I 'View Source' on my page, I see <meta name="GENERATOR"
content="Microsoft FrontPage 4.0"> and <meta name="ProgId"
content="FrontPage.Editor.Document">

What do these 'meta tags' such as 'Generator' and "ProgID" mean and do they
harm my ability to get ranked in the engines?

Thanks (with more question coming I'm sure...)
 
Question 1
I use FP2003, but this should be a similar procedure: there should be a
pre-set list - in your Formatting toolbar for H1 ("Heading 1") size text
choose the one labelled "Heading 1". If not, then all you need to do is
put <h1> and </h1> around the text you want to be that size. Type it in
code/html view eg:

<h1>This is a heading</h1>


Question 2
The meta tag "Generator" and ProgID just tells you the site was made in
Frontpage. Frontpage 4.0 = Frontpage 2000 since you're using FP2000. I
don't know that they would effect search engine rankings; site engines
usually depend (or did depend) on Meta tags such as "Keywords" and
"Description" tags, not "Generator" and "ProdID".

I could be wrong, but I don't see the relevance of "Generator" and "ProgID"
to any search engine.

If you're concerned about it, then just delete those meta tags.

www.jimcosoftware.com actually has a plugin to get ride of those particular
metas, it may work in FP2000; not sure about that.

Otherwise I expect you can just delete them from the code view.

They're not essential.
 
Thank you Mr. Murray - your reply was very helpful on resolving my minor
issue. Thanks again!
 
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