| This page lists a few items I often overlook when building pages with FrontPage. The Page Title
Don't forget to set the title for your pages. The page title is what is displayed in the title bar of a Web browser when a page is loaded. It's important for a couple of reasons: First, if someone bookmarks your page, the title of your page will be the default name for the bookmark. Second, many search engines use a page's title when calculating the results of a search; properly setting your title can help score higher in the rankings with many search engines. You page's title is contained in the HTML <title></title> tags, but there's a couple of easy ways to set it in FrontPage. If the page is already open in the FrontPage editor, choose File > Page Properties..., then enter whatever you want to title your page in the Title field. If you're in the FrontPage Folder view, you can set the title of a page by right-clicking on a page, selecting the "Properties..." option from the popup menu, then entering the page title in the Title field. Is forgetting to set the page title a common problem? If you don't set the title of a page, FrontPage will, by default, title the page "New Page 1". Go to AltaVista and search for "New Page 1"; as of this writing, I got about 386,000 pages with that title. The Background Color
You should specify the background color of your Web pages, even if a page is intended to be white. Even though the current versions of Microsoft Internet Explorer and Netscape Navigator will default to white if a page background color is not specified, the current version of Netscape Navigator for the Macintosh will default to gray (older versions of Netscape for Windows do this as well. In the FrontPage editor, choose File > Properties..., click the Background tab, and choose a color from the drop-down "Background:" menu. I'd like to thank Tina Clarke of AccessFP.net for pointing out that I originally forgot to set the background color of the pages on this website. The Submit Button in Forms
For some reason that defies logic, when you create a form with FrontPage it will, by default, include the name value of the Submit button in the form results. You can easily fix this. Click on a form with the right mouse button, then choose "Form Properties..." from the popup menu. Click on the Options button, then click the Saved Fields tab. Delete the name of the Submit button (usually "B1") from the "Form fields to save:" field. Non-Breaking Spaces
Don't forget that if you use two-word proper nouns (like George Washington), you should use a non-breaking space (HTML ) between them to keep them on the same line. Just hold down the Ctrl and Shift keys when you hit the space bar. <Back to table of contents> | 
