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MS Frontpage 2000 and general site management information.

Mobile readability modifications:

Viewport tag: <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">

Fixed width text modification:

The above viewport tag appears to prevent the horizontal scrollbar. As a result if a page has fixed width elements such as preformatted text or wide images it will be scaled down to fit a mobile device, resulting in an unreadable page.

To prevent this certain features must be modified or avoided:

  • The banner image in the page theme has been made shorter so the resulting banner does not extend as far.
  • Preformatted text must not be used with lines much in excess of 50 characters. Instead the text will be written in a custom "fixed" style that forces a fixed width font: Courier New.

The text change will be implemented using a custom style not using ad-hoc formatting.

  • If the Theme configuration is set to Use CSS then the custom style may be defined in the theme and will be available in all pages using that theme.
  • If the Theme configuration is not set to Use CSS then custom styles in the theme appear to be unavailable and custom styles must be defined in each page.

Page template modification:

The master page template has been modified to automatically include the viewport tag.

The template appears to be located at: 

C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\Templates\1033\Pages\normal.tem

Other templates are located in other folders.

It appears as if the normal template lacks a language tag. Bing webmaster tools recommend: 

<meta http-equiv='content-language' content='en-gb'>

A specific template 1center.htm has the tags:

<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=windows-1252">
<meta http-equiv="Content-Language" content="en-us">
<title></title>
</head>