Establishing Page Properties
When you first open a page in Dreamweaver, your default Web page is untitled, with no background image
and only a plain, white background. You can change any of these properties and more through
Dreamweaver??™s Page Properties dialog box.
If the Use CSS Instead Of HTML Tags option is enabled in Preferences (the default), the Page
Properties attributes are written into an internal style sheet. With the option disabled, attributes
entered through the Page Properties dialog box are written into the tag; moreover, the categories
of the Page Properties dialog box are limited to Appearance, Title/Encoding, and Tracing Image.
As usual, Dreamweaver gives you more than one method for accessing the Page Properties dialog box. You
can choose Modify ??? Page Properties, or you can use the keyboard shortcut Ctrl+J (Command+J).
Here??™s another way to open the Page Properties dialog box: Click the Page Properties button of
the Text Property inspector.
The Page Properties dialog box, shown in Figure 6-1, gives you easy control over the overall look and feel of
the HTML page.
Technically, some of the values you assign through the Page Properties dialog box are applied
to the tag; because they affect the overall appearance of a page, however, they are
covered in this section.
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