ah ha! thank you, webado. I *believe* that I can put the verification
metadata in description. Do you know if I need to leave that code in
> Ok, step 1: removae that meta tag from wher eyou put it.
> Step 2, if you have a way of specifying a description orkeywrods meta
> tag content's, then with great care you can fool the CMS into letting
> you add the verificaiotn meta tag. Follwo these instrucitons (meant
> for Office Live sites) - they might work for yours as well:http://solutionsforofficelive.com/googlewebmastertools.aspx
> What you would be trying to do is essentially insert the closure of
> one meta tag and the verification meta tag minus it's closure as if
> it were content of a single meta tag content.
> Example:
> Suppose you are allwoed to provide a description meta tag on the
> homepage.
> You probably have a filed wher eyou enter just the content of this
> description meta tag, e.g:
> This is the description of my page.
> What you can do is redo this step and add instead the following:
> This is the description of my page."><meta name="verify-v1"
> content="DJExYqC7F6cUP/sOPPNQbtU5t3lwbfw3NyRPUcE7is4=
> So we add "> at the end of the desciption text which closes the
> description meta tag. Then we add the verificaiton meta tag but
> stopping before the closing " /> part (incidentally /> is invalid for
> a page which is not using an xhtml doctype, it needs to be > alone,
> but you need not worry about it sicne you're nto adding either).
> You just need to make sure it all fits in the field provided. Since
> you cannot cut the verificaiton meta tag aprt short, then it's the
> descriotion content that needs to be cut shorter so the whole thing
> fits.
> It's possible however the CMS you are using is too "smart" and may
> block this usage. In such a case, too bad. Nothing more you can do -
> you cannot verify.
> On May 16, 5:46 pm, WoodendFarm wrote:
> > I'm hideously unsavvy in terms of webmastering, but nonetheless have
> > taken on doing the site for a charity (www.woodendfarms.org) I'm
> > using Charity Advantage, which offers idiot proof, templated sites
> > with a CMS that puts managing a web site within my reach.
> > However, I need your help with verification. The HTML for the
> > homepage doesn't have a <head> tag, so I stuck one in, along with the
> > meta content Google provided for verification. Once you stop laughing
> > you can go look at the homepage to see what I mean, I left it in
> > there. When I tried to verify, I learned that it was in the wrong
> > place. I have no idea where to stick this info to complete the
> > verification.
> > The HTML upload won't work, all pages are automatically given a .asp
> > extension.
> > Looking forward to your advice, and thanks, I am so out of my depth
> > here ....
> > Sarah
> > Wood End Farms
