280 Producing Web Pages
To set a custom on-page and background colour:
• As above, but select a page colour from the On-Page drop-down list.
• For an off-page background colour, select a colour from the
Background drop-down list. Select More Colour... to optionally pick
from a Colour Selector dialog.
Choosing web page properties
There's more to creating a successful website than designing the pages. It's a
good idea to browse the Site Properties dialog, accessible from File>Web Site
Properties and review a variety of settings you might not otherwise have
considered!
Site Properties/Page tab
Some of the options on the dialog's Page tab pertain just to the current page,
while others apply to the site as a whole. The web page title, which will appear
in the title bar of the visitor's web browser, can serve to unify the pages and
focus the site's identity, as well as aid navigation. Each page in your site can
have its own title, but you may prefer to use the same title on multiple pages (in
effect, a site title). An easy way to do this is to start with a blank page, give it a
title, then replicate that page. Copies of that page will have the same title.
Each page also has a file name when it's published. You can specify file names
individually; otherwise PagePlus automatically generates them.
Check the instructions from your web service provider as to their naming
conventions for Home Pages and file extensions. By default, PagePlus names
your first (Home) page index.html—the standard file name a browser will be
looking for. Depending on the particular server in use, however, some other
name may be required. Likewise, the extension .htm is sometimes used for
pages.
Publishing a website to a local folder
Even though you may have saved your website as a PagePlus publication, it's
not truly a "website" until you've converted it to HTML and image files—in
other words, a format that can be viewed in a web browser. In PagePlus, this
conversion process is called publishing the site. You can publish the site either
to a local folder (on a hard disk) or to the web itself.
