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Web Properties Dialog 309

The options on this tab apply to the current page, not to the selected object(s). The
current page is indicated with black angle lines just outside each corner of the page. All
fields on this tab are optional; you do not necessarily need to fill in these fields for every
page of your site.

If you want the same title, description and keywords on every page of your site, you can
set these just once on the Website tab instead of setting them on every page here.

PAGE FILENAME: Use this field to set the name you’d like to be used for this page when it
is exported. So if you want the page to be exported as “home.htm”, set this field to
“home”.

It’s usual to make the first page of a website “index.htm” or “home.htm”, because if a
visitor specifies a URL consisting of just a domain name with no page name (eg.
“www.xara.com”) this is usually automatically mapped by the web server to the index.htm
page if it is present. Note that characters entered in this field are automatically converted
to lower case and accented characters and some non-alphanumeric characters are not
allowed. This is to reduce the chances of compatibility problems with different web
servers when you publish your website.

PAGE TITLE: You can optionally choose a title for your page. If set, this is used by web
browsers to show a page title in the browser window frame, or tab. For example at the
time of writing the www.xara.com home page has the title “Graphics Software by Xara”
which you can see is shown by the web browser if you visit the site.

Advanced: The title is inserted into the page header using the ‘<title>’ HTML element.

PAGE DESCRIPTION: This page description text can be shown by search engines within
their search results when visitors find your page with an internet search. The page
description may also be displayed by browsers and other web services.

Advanced: The description is inserted as metadata into the page header
(‘<meta name="description" …..).

PAGE KEYWORDS: Here you can enter keywords which you want to be picked up by
search engines to help visitors find your site. Enter words which potential visitors are
likely to search for if they are looking for pages or sites like yours.

For those familiar with HTML, the keywords are entered into the page header as
metadata:-

Advanced: The keywords are inserted as metadata into the page header
(‘<meta name="keywords" …..).

HTML CODE (HEAD): Click to open the HTML Code (head) dialog, where you can paste or
type HTML code directly into the head of your web page. The code is inserted
unmodified just before the closing “</head>” tag.