Page Properties

Every Web Page has basic properties like title, background image, background color, default text color, link color, etc.

The page title describes Web Page.

A background image or color sets the overall appearance of the document. To distinguish regular text from hypertext and to see which links have been visited and which have not, the different colors are used.

To change Page properties

• Select Page Properties from the Modify menu.

Page title

Text that appears in the title bar of the browser window when it displays this page. When site visitors bookmark this page, the page title is used. The title is also emphasized in search engine queries.

To edit/change Page title

1. Select the General tab in the Page Properties dialog box
2. Type title in the Title box.

Page's Custom Colors

Custom colors are colors for the Web Page text that override the browser's color settings, so that you, as Web author, - not the browser - control the color of text.

You can assign custom colors for each of the following text types:

1. Text color: Color of all text in the page that is not a link.
2. Link color: Color of all links in the page except those that are active or visited
3. Visited Links: Color of links that the visitor has previously used through browser.
4. Active Links: Color of a link that has been immediately clicked by the visitor, it may remain visible for a few moments while the browser retrieves the file to which the link points.

To edit/change Page's Custom Colors

1. Select the General tab in the Page Properties dialog box
2. In the Custom Colors section change the colors.

Document Encoding

Document Encoding specifies name of code table used to display non English language letters in the document.

To change Document Encoding

1. Select the General tab in the Page Properties dialog box.
2. Select a code table from the HTML encoding list.
3. For English and Western European languages, choose US/Western European.

If name of code table for the encoding you want is not available, choose Other to create a document with the encoding your operating system is using.

Base URL

If a Base URL is assigned, all the relative page URLs will be converted into absolute URLs. The base URL should end with a trailing slash, such as http://www.nowhere.com/subdir/.

Base Target

If you want all of the page hyperlinks to be displayed in a different frame, type the name of the base frame.

Web Page background

Page background is a color or an image that covers the entire background of the page so that text and other images can be seen on top of it.

Actual Drawing allows you to create three types of page background - Colored Background, Pictured Background, Custom Drawn Background.

Colored Background

1. The background area of your page can be a solid color or a two-color filling.
2. If the Same as start color check box checked, web page has a solid color background.
3. If the Same as start color check box unchecked, you can select second color for two-color filling.

Also you can choose a fountain filling or velveteen filling.

To set colored background

1. Select the Background tab in the Page Properties dialog box.
2. Set background type - Color.
3. Choose colors and the filling type in the Color section.

Pictured Background

You can apply as a background a tiled image, an image file repeated across the entire Web Page.

To set pictured background

1. Select the Background tab in the Page Properties dialog box.
2. Set background type - Image.
3. Press the Browse button to fill in the File Name box.

Custom Drawn Background

A custom drawn background contains several Actual Drawing's layers like texts, images and shapes. You can use the custom drawn background if you want to get a pictured background but don't have appropriate picture. To make the custom drawn background visible in Internet Browser, Actual Drawing converts it to a .GIF or .JPG file. A custom drawn background is editable at any time.

To create or edit Custom Drawn background

1. Select the Background tab in the Page Properties dialog box.
2. Set background type - Drawing.
3. Press the Edit Drawing button to create or edit the custom drawn background.

Meta Tags

Meta tags provide information about a Web Page. They are inserted in the <HEAD> tag of Web Page. Actual Drawing allows you to setup popular used meta tags and custom tags.

Many search engines employing "spiders" use the information in your Meta Tags to catalog your site. This information is "read" for keyword hits when someone does a search for your website using Hotbot, Excite, etc. This gives you more control over how your page will show up during a search, and will often cause more traffic to your page.

The following tags are used in search engines:

1. Author - This indicates the name of the author.
2. Keywords - provides keywords for search engines. These are added to the keywords found in the document itself.
3. Description - provides a text, which will be displayed by search engine when the document shows up in a search result. The description cannot exceed 1000 characters.

The Jump to URL tag means that when the page is loaded, the browser automatically goes to another page in number of seconds you have specified.

To modify Meta Tags

1. Select the Meta Tags tab in the Page Properties dialog box.
2. Fill in the appropriate boxes.