Establishing Page Properties

You can use the Page properties dialog box to specify a variety of options for the page.  To open the Page Properties dialog box choose Page Properties from the Modify menu.  You can change the following items from the page properties window:

• Title specifies the page title that appears in the title bar of the Document window and browser windows (Netscape and Internet Explorer).  The title is also what will appear in the favorites or bookmarks list if someone bookmarks your page.  Therefore, your title should be descriptive and meaningful. 
• Background Image and Background specify a color or image (which will be tiled to fill the background) for the background of the page.

  To change the Background Image:

1. Click the Browse… button next the Background Image field.
2. Navigate to the image that you would like to have in the background.
3. Click the Open button to select the image.

To change the Background color:

1. Click on the color swatch.
2. Select a color from those that appear using the eyedropper.

• Text and Links define the default colors for text, links, visited links (those that have been followed), and active links (a link that is being clicked on).

  To change the Text and link colors:

1. Click on the color swatch.
2. Select a color from those that appear using the eyedropper.

• Margins specify the size of the page’s margins.  Internet Explorer uses left and top, and Netscape uses width and height.  By default all margins are set to 1 so if you don’t want your pages to have a margin enter a 0 into each of the margin fields.

The remaining page properties are beyond the scope of these training sessions.  If you are interest in learning more about them, read Dreamweaver’s help section.