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Setting document properties
Page titles, background images and colors, text and link colors, and margins are
basic properties of every HTML document. The page title identifies and names
the document. A background image or color sets the overall appearance of the
document. Text and link colors help site visitors distinguish regular text from
hypertext and to see which links have been visited and which have not.
Changing the title of a page
The title of an HTML page helps site visitors keep track of what they’re viewing
as they browse, and it identifies the page in the visitor’s history and bookmark
lists. If you don’t title a page, the page will appear in the browser window,
bookmark lists, and history lists as
Untitled Document . Note that giving the
document a file name (by saving it) is not the same as giving the page a title. To
locate all untitled documents in your site, use the Site > Reports command; see
“Creating reports” on page 510.
To change the title of a page:
1
Do one of the following:
•
Choose Modify > Page Properties.
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Click in an empty space on your page to make sure nothing is selected. Then
choose Page Properties from the context menu by right-clicking (Windows) or
Control-clicking (Macintosh) in the Design view of the Document window.
•
Choose View > Head Content, click the Title button when it appears, and then
open the Property inspector.
•
Choose View > Toolbar.
2
Enter the title for the page in the Title text box.
3
If you’re editing the title in the Page Properties dialog box, click OK.
The title appears in the title bar of the Document window (and in the toolbar,
if it’s showing). The file name of the page and the folder the file is saved in
appear in parentheses next to the title in the title bar. An asterisk indicates the
document contains changes that have not yet been saved.