HTML Web Design Tutorial #5

Giving a Title to Your New Web Page

In the last lesson we showed you how to save your document as a web page, and then view it in a browser. If you had entered some text into the body section of your document, then you should have seen it displayed in the browser window. The body section is where we put the stuff we want people to see on our web page.

Now let's talk about something that goes into the head section of our html document. All web pages are supposed to have a unique title, and that title gets placed inside the document's head section. It goes inside the head section because the title is information about the web page. It's there to tell people what that particular page is all about.

Now, you could make a web page without a title, and it would still work. However, you don't want to do that, and here's why. Most search engines will list your page by its title, and not having one could lose you a click when someone searches for pages like yours. Also, when a visitor adds your page to their Favorites (Bookmarks), the listing will default to your page title.

Suffice it to say, there are plenty of good reasons to give your web page a title. So, lets see how to do it by clicking on the play button below.

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