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Setting page properties

You can change the following basic page properties: page title, margins, color (of the background, text, and links), background image, and document encoding method.

Note: If you are editing a draft based on a template, or if you are restricted to text-only editing by your website administrator, then you can change only the page title. For more information, contact your website administrator or see Setting page editing and paragraph permissions.

To set page properties:

  1. Browse to the page you want to edit properties for, and then click the Edit Page button in the toolbar.
  2. Click the Page Properties button in the toolbar or select Format > Page Properties.
  3. The Page Properties dialog box appears.


    Page Properties dialog box

  4. Make changes to any of the following options:
  5. Title specifies the page title that appears in the title bar of the website visitor’s browser; the title does not appear on the page itself.

    Giving a page a title is not the same as giving it a filename. For information about filenames, see Publishing a page to your website.

    Background image enables you to browse to select a background image for the page.

    Click the Browse button, and then select Images on My Computer or Images on Website to select an image.

    Left margin, Top margin, Right margin, and Bottom margin determine the size of page margins. If you do not want margins on the page, enter 0 for each margin.

    Tip: Margins are measured in pixels; there are approximately 72 pixels per inch.

    Background color sets the background color of the page. If you also select a background image for the page, website visitors do not see the background color (unless the image is transparent).

    Text color defines a color for text on the page.

    Document encoding specifies the encoding used for characters on the page. Select Western for English and Western European languages.

    Additional options include Central European, Cyrillic, Greek, Icelandic, Japanese, Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, and Korean. If an option for the encoding you want is not available, select Other to create a page with the encoding your operating system is using. All Asian languages use double-byte encoding.

    Note: Click the Reload button only if Contribute opened the page for editing with the wrong encoding. Select the correct encoding for the page; then click Reload to reload the last saved version of the page with the correct encoding.

    Link color defines a default color for links on the page.

    Active links defines a default color for links as a user clicks them.

    Visited links defines a default color for links to pages that a website visitor has viewed.

  6. Click Apply to see changes without closing the dialog box or click OK to apply changes and close the dialog box.

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