- Creating Web Pages
- Working with Web Pages
- Setting Other Page Properties
- Previewing Pages in a Browser
This chapter is from the book
This chapter is from the book
This chapter is from the book
Working with Web Pages
To avoid breaking any of the links among your Web pages, use Expression Web (rather than the Windows Explorer) to save, open, change the name or title, or delete pages.
To save a Web page:
Choose File > Save (
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Figure 3.15 You have at least three ways to save a page.
If this is the first page you've saved to the site, the Save As dialog box automatically names the file default, making it the site's home page (Figure 3.16). (See second tip.) The dialog box also automatically titles the page Untitled1. If that's your intention, click Save and the file is saved with that name and title and the dialog box closes.
Figure 3.16 If this is the first page you've saved to the site, the Save As dialog box automatically names it default, making it the site's home page.
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To give the file another name and title, type the name in the File name text box and click Change title (Figure 3.17). When the Set Page Title appears, replace the automatic title (top, Figure 3.18) with the one you want to use (bottom, Figure 3.18). Click OK to close the dialog box.
Figure 3.17 Use the File name field to rename the page, and then click Change title.
Figure 3.18 Type a new title (top), and click OK to close the dialog box (bottom).
The Save As dialog box reappears with your name and title choices in place (Figure 3.19). Click Save to apply the changes and close the dialog box. The new name appears in the Folder List and the open page tab (Figure 3.20).
Figure 3.19 The Save As dialog box reappears with your name and title choices in place. Click Save to apply the changes and close the dialog box.
Figure 3.20 The new name appears in the Folder List and the open page tab.
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A page's name is the file name in your directory (for example, default.htm), while the title is what your Web visitors see in their browser's title bar when they open the page (Figure 3.21).
Figure 3.21 A page's file name (top) is not its title, which appears in the browser's title bar and page tab (bottom).
You can designate another file as a site's home page at any time. Right-click the file in the Folder List, and choose Set as Home Page in the drop-down menu (Figure 3.22). Click Yes when the confirmation dialog box appears, and the selected page is renamed default.htm and the previous home page is named default-old.htm (Figure 3.23).
Figure 3.22 To designate another file as the home page, right-click it in the Folder List and choose Set as Home Page.
Figure 3.23 Click Yes when the confirmation dialog box appears (top). The selected page is renamed default.htm and the previous home page named default-old.htm.
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To open a Web page:
Do one of the following:
- To open a Web page in the same Web site, double-click its name in the Folder List pane.
- To open a Web page in another Web site, choose File > Open and then use the dialog box that appears to navigate to the desired page.
To change a page's name:
Click the file in the Folder List to select it. Wait a beat and click it again to select its name (Figure 3.24).
Figure 3.24 Click once, wait a beat, and click again to select the file's name in the Folder List.
Use your cursor to select everything but the .htm suffix (left, Figure 3.25). Type a new name (right, Figure 3.25). Press
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Figure 3.25 Select everything but the .htm suffix (left), then type a new name (right).
The new name is applied to the file (Figure 3.26).
Figure 3.26 Press
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To change a page's title:
Right-click a page in the Folder List, and choose Properties from the drop-down menu (Figure 3.27).
Figure 3.27 To change a page's title, right-click a page in the Folder List and choose Properties from the drop-down menu.
Select the title in the General tab of the Properties dialog box (top, Figure 3.28). Type a new title and click OK to apply the change and close the dialog box (bottom, Figure 3.28).
Figure 3.28 Select the title in the General tab (top), type a new title, and click OK to apply the change and close the dialog box (bottom).
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If the Title column is turned on in the Editing Window (click Reports tab > All Files), you can select the title in the column and type in a new title (Figure 3.29).
Figure 3.29 If the Title column is turned on in the Editing Window, you can select the title there and type a new title.
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To delete a Web page:
In the Folder List, right-click the page and choose Delete from the drop-down menu (Figure 3.30).
Figure 3.30 To delete a page, right-click it in the Folder List and choose Delete from the drop-down menu.
An alert dialog box appears, asking if you want to delete the page (Figure 3.31). Click Yes, and the page is deleted from the site.
Figure 3.31 If you're sure you want to delete the page, click Yes.
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