All Web pages should have a page title to allow visitors to know what they're viewing. With Netscape Composer, it's easy to specify important page details such as the page title, author of the Web page, page descriptions, keywords, color of hyperlinks, and background colors or images.

• Page Title - Giving your Web page a title
• Author - Giving credit to the Web page designer
• Description - A short description of what your page is about
• Keywords - Words or phrases to help search engines locate your Web page
• Color of Hyperlinks - Choose different colors for link text, selected links, and visited links
• Background Colors - Choose a color for the page background
• Background Images - Choose an image for the page background

General Page Properties Options

Page Title

To give your page a title, after you've started Composer, click the Format menu, then click Page Title. This will open up a General Page Properties dialog box. Type in the title for your page in the Title field.

 

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Author

While the General Page Properties dialog box (above) is open, type in the name of the person who created the Web page in the Author field.  

Description

Descriptions about your Web page help visitors quickly see what your Website or Web page is about. While in the General Page Properties dialog box (above), type in a short description of what your Web page is about in the Description field.  

Keywords

To help search engines classify and locate your Web page, you should include keywords in your Web page. While the General Page Properties dialog box (above) is open, type in words or phrases having to do with your Web page in the Keywords field.

Colors and Backgrounds Options

Color of Hyperlinks

To specify how you want hyperlinks, or links, to appear on your Web page, you'll need to first open the Colors and Backgrounds Page Properties dialog box (below). Click the Format menu, then click Page Properties. If you wish to change Navigator's Color Settings (as displayed), click the radio button for Use Custom Colors. Now you can select the colors of link text, active (selected) link text, and followed (visited) link text by clicking on the colored rectangles corresponding to the link text choices. To learn more about links, click here.  

 

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Background Colors

You can also select a page background color while the Colors and Backgrounds Page Properties dialog box is open. Click on the Background colored rectangle (as seen above) to choose a color to use as the background of your Web page. For best results, choose a light background color.  

Background Images

If you prefer to use an image (graphic file) as your page background rather than a solid color, click on the Image checkbox or the Choose File... button while in the Colors and Backgrounds Page Properties dialog box (above). This should open another dialog box that will allow you to choose an image to use as your page background. Locate your image (usually with a GIF [Graphics Interchange Format]or JPG [Joint Photographic Experts Group] extension), then click the Open button. Your selected image should cover your page and override the background color. Choosing a light image will enable visitors to easily read the text on your page. To learn more about images, click here.

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