The Title Command

The next command we will explore is the title command. This command will give your web page a title when a person views it. If you do not put this command on your web page then the person will just see the address of your web page at the top of their browser. On the other hand if you have a title the person will see that at the top of their browser. This will provide the person a quick, to the point description of your page. If they put your page in their “bookmarks” that title will appear in their bookmarks pull down menu so that the person will remember what your page is and what it is about. If you do not have a title your address will be put in the “bookmarks” and the person will have no idea what your page is about and mostly likely discourage them from visiting your web page.

My web page has the title “Justin Weber’s Computing Center,” in order to incorperate this into my page I put the commands necessary at the TOP of my HTML document. (You will want to write this document in a Text editor because they are very easy to use to write your page, just remember to save the document as *.html or *.htm.) The title command is designated by an angle bracket (all HTML codes are designated beginning and ending with an angle bracket) “<“ then the word TITLE (this is not case sensitive so you may write it like this: title, or this: TITLE, or this: TiTlE, either way they will do the same thing) then another angle bracket “>”. Then you type your title.

NOTE: When selecting a title use one that accurately describes your web page, unless your page is a joke :). My page is about operating systems and computers so I chose the title Justin Weber’s Computing Center, respectively.

To end the title you type an angle bracket “<“ then a slash “/” then the word TITLE then an angle bracket “>”. Here is what my title looks like in the HTML code:

<TITLE>Justin Weber’s Computing Center</TITLE>

That completes the section on the head portion of the web page.