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| Lesson 5: Setting Page Properties and Background |
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the previous lesson, you learned how to make different kinds of hyperlinks.
In this lesson, you will learn how to provide the information about your
page by offering title, author, description, and keywords. You will also
learn how to set up background color and/or image.
Information about the Page To set page properties, click on the Format menu and choose Page Colors and Properties.
You will see a Page Properties Window as shown below. On the top of the window, click on the General tag. The General panel is where you provide basic information about the page. The title of your page will appear at the top of the browser window. The other information entered in the General panel will be helpful to web users locating your web page. For example, suppose that the users perform a search (using Yahoo, Altavista, etc.) and your page is among the search results, the following diagram shows the relationship between search results (in Altavista) and Page Properties.
The following sections contain some information about each component of this Image Properties window. You may need to scroll up and down to match the diagram (above) with the explanations (below) so that you will know what I am referring to. 1. Title The Title of the page will appear on the top left corner of the browser window (Mac will show it in the center).2. Author Type your name in the Author box.3. Description Provide a brief description of this page. The description helps the users get to know the contents of your Web page.4. Keywords Finally, provide a few keywords which help users locate your Web page on the Internet using search engines. Thus, if you want to invite a lot of visitors, add as many relevant keywords as you can.
Click on the Colors and Background tag. Here you can either use the browser's default colors for linked text and background or use a custom color scheme. 1. Page Colors You can keep the default values for link text colors. You can also use your own colors. To do so, check "Use custom colors (Save colors in page)" and pick up the colors you like.
If you do not specify the background image, the browser uses the color you just selected as the background. To select an image as background, click on the Choose File button. The Choose Image File dialog box will open. Locate the image you want to use as the background. Click on the file name of the image and hit Open. 
The file name of the selected image appears in the Use Image box. Click OK and you are done. 
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