Basics: HTML
Add a Title and an Address Footer
| Title | The title
of your web page is the name that appears in the colored bar at the
very top edge of your browser window.
For example, the title of this page is Basics: Add a Title and an Address Footer. Note that the title is different from the filename. (The filename of this page is basics4.htm.) The title may or may not be the same as the headline at the top of the page. (The headline on this page is Basics: HTML Add a Title and an Address Footer.) Make your title descriptive. The title is also the phrase that appears in an end user's Bookmarks or Favorites list. |
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| Title Your Web Page | Put the title of your page between the <TITLE></TITLE> tags in the page template> | |
| Example | <HTML> <HEAD> <TITLE>Set Page Properties</TITLE> </HEAD> <BODY> </BODY> </HTML> |
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| The Address Footer | Another standard feature of every well-designed
web page is the address footer.
The footer has two required elements:
The address might also contain:
Here is an example of my address footer: |
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| Web
Design Center Last Revised: © 1999 Agatha Taormina |
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| The footer is usually the last piece of
information on a web page.
It usually appears underneath the navigation bar or separated from the page content with a horizontal rule. The footer is often displayed in smaller type than the main content of the page. |
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| To learn how to decrease the size of type, go to Type:
Change Type Attributes
To learn how to add a mailto link to a page, go to Links: Mailto Links |
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| HINT: Add the footer, complete with hyperlinks, to your page template. |
Basics: HTML
Create a New
Page
Enter and Format Text
Add Headlines and Horizontal Rules
Add a Title and an Address Footer
Save and Preview a Page
Create a Page Template
Web Design Center
Last Revised:
October 19, 2006
© Agatha Taormina