Document Title and Base URL

 

Document Title

The Document Title of your Web page is used by many search engines as a way of indexing your Web page. The document title also appears at the top of a visitor's browser when they visit your page. A trick to make the most out of the document title is to make it long. For example:

“Peter’s Bookshop - sellers of old, rare, antique books. Based in Melbourne Australia.”

All the crucial information about the webpage is located near the start of the title, the remaining information just contains additional keywords.

Base URL

If you are using long relative links, the Base URL can be useful. For example, say you have a simple document that only links to 20 or so images. All the images are located in the same directory. For example:

<IMG SRC="media/images/pic1.jpg">

Rather than typing “media/images/” in front of every image, you could change the Base URL to “media/images/”. Then all your image references become:

<IMG SRC="pic1.jpg">

However, if you did change the BASE URL as above, then to link your Web page to another document in the same directory would require a relative link jumping up two directories:

<A HREF="../../doc2.HTML">

See Absolute and Relative References for more information.

To Edit Your Document's Title and Base URL:

  1. On the Format menu, select Document Information.

  2. Click on the Title tab.

  3. Enter the Document Title and/or Base URL into the boxes provided.

  4. From the drop-down list at the bottom of the screen, select the option Blank boxes delete related document fields if you want any unfilled fields on the screen to indicate that those fields should be deleted from the document's Meta tag information (for example, if you left the Document Title field empty, then selecting the Blank boxes delete related document fields option would erase any existing title in your page's Meta tags). Otherwise, make sure that the Blank boxes make no change to related document fields option is selected.

  5. Click on the OK button to apply changes to your document.