Teach Yourself MS Office 2003 In 24 Hours

Adding a Title to Your Web Page

This chapter continues introducing you to FrontPage by walking you through a sample Web page that you build. Unlike the other Office programs, FrontPage will make much more sense to you if you learn about FrontPage while you use it as you're doing now.

Click the Design View button once more to return to the blank Web page. Now, select File, Properties and click the Title field to enter a title. Type My Home Page in the field and click OK. This will make sure that My Home Page appears in the title bar of any user's Web browser that views your page later.

Select the Code tab to view the HTML window, and you'll see My Home Page between the <title> and </title> HTML command tags. You now know that the text between <title> and </title> displays in the Web browser's title bar at the top of the browser window when your Web page is viewed over the Internet. Without FrontPage, you would have typed this title inside the HTML tags.

The title is not the only property that the Properties dialog box can help you manage. If you select File, Properties once again and click the tabs to see the other dialog box property sheets, you'll find these tabbed sheets that help you quickly place Web page elements on your page:

• Background— Select an image or colors to form your Web page's background.

• Margins— Specify the top and left margins of your Web page.

• Custom— Advanced Web-page designers can create variables that hold content that is placed in the variables when the Web page is displayed on the Internet.