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Tutorial #5 - Giving a Title to Your New Web Page

Lesson #5: Web Page Title. Click the play button to begin the tutorial.
OK, earlier we split our document into head and body sections, and placed a sentence in the body.
Now we will put something into the head section: our page title.
Let's assume that we've already closed our source document, so we can see how to reopen it from inside of our text editor.
From inside of the File menu...
...we'll choose Open.
Next we'll browse to the directory (folder) our file was saved in.
This is the directory that we saved it in, but why isn't it here?
When you initially open Notepad, it only looks for Text Documents.
We'll need to change this to All Files.
Now we can see it. Let's go ahead and open it.
All web pages should have a title placed inside of their head section.
The title helps to identify each web page, and its contents.
First we'll enter a tag that includes the title element.
Now for the actual web page title.
Of course, this one's just an example. You'll want to use a title that's applicable to your own web page.
At the end of our title we'll place the closing </title> tag.
Potential web visitors may read your title in a search engine listing.
So, it's important that your title communicates exactly what they will find on your web page.
Now let's save the source document and view our web page.
Since this file has already been saved with an .html extension, we can just choose Save this time.
In order to see the changes, we will need to click on the Refresh (Reload) button.
Most web browsers will display the page title in the top bar of the browser window.
If someone adds your page to their Favorites (Bookmarks) menu, it will usually be listed by your title.
OK, time to add a title to your HTML document, and then meet us in Lesson #6.

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