Document Title and Base URL

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 visitors browser when they visit your web 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 web page 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, eg:

<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.

graphics/Hotdog500000005.gif To edit your documents title:

  1. On the Format menu click on "Document Information".

  2. Click the "Title" tab.

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