Every document you create in Dreamweaver has a Title field in the toolbar at the top of the document window. The frameset page title may be the only title a user ever sees for your framed site, so make it count. However, it's a good idea to give each individual document in the site a title , too. We need a little semantic clarification here, because there are title elements, and then there are title attributes. You first heard about title elements in Chapter 3, "Building Your First Page." There you learned how to create the document title in the Title field at the top of the window. This is the title that appears in the title bar of a Web browser when the page is loaded. In this chapter, we talk a lot about title attributes for frames. Now, title attributes are very important, but they're not the same thing as the title elements that give a document a title. Attributes describe elements. An element is made with an HTML tag. If you wrap some text with an HTML tag, you've got an element. HTML elements are things like paragraphs, lists, images, headings, and frames. All those elements have attributes like size , color , border , margin , and possibly title . A title attribute tells you some characteristic about its element. In this chapter, title attributes give information about the frame element. If all this semantic talk is too much for you, remember this: if Dreamweaver gives you a chance to put a title anywhere, do it! |