Dreamweaver MX Question

[Shannon]

I am creating a website using Macromedia Dreamweaver MX but I don't know how to change the title of the website (the text in the browser title bar). I've tried editing the the page properties where it allows you to change the title but I can't get into the page properties of the frameset page which is what it loads up to preview the website; Dreamweaver users will understand (hopefully). Help is (obviously) welcome...

 

[Solid Fro]

Frames? Frames suck.

Hmmm, I think I know what you're talking about. Try this: Select the frame you want. In the Code side panel, click on the Tag Inspector tab. In the window directly below it, scroll down to Title. Click on the space next to it and type in the text that you want.

I don't know if this is correct, but I never build using frames either.

 

[GilesGuthrie]

Frames are fine if you use them correctly.

Eddy, this is how to fix the issue: Open the page that sets the frames. Then go to the Modify menu. Roll over Frameset and choose Edit NoFrames Content. Now you can control the layout of the page that is shown when the browser does not understand frames. You can also change the properties of the frameset page, including its name.

Once you're done, repeat the above procedure to go back to seeing the frames and their initial pages.

 

[Shannon]

Originally posted by GilesGuthrie
Frames are fine if you use them correctly.

Eddy, this is how to fix the issue: Open the page that sets the frames. Then go to the Modify menu. Roll over Frameset and choose Edit NoFrames Content. Now you can control the layout of the page that is shown when the browser does not understand frames. You can also change the properties of the frameset page, including its name.

Once you're done, repeat the above procedure to go back to seeing the frames and their initial pages.

That doesn't work. I'll zip the site up and attach it.

(BTW - That is the sites name - it is going to be a Photoshop site).

 

[Shannon]

You have to open up the frameset.htm file - not the index.htm file by the way.

 

[GilesGuthrie]

Originally posted by Eddy
That doesn't work. I'll zip the site up and attach it.

(BTW - That is the sites name - it is going to be a Photoshop site).

WHAT?

Does it simply not change the name of the site?

I've just unzipped your site, and changed the title of the frameset.htm file, hit F12, and it comes up with the name I specified. Do you want the title to be "Unknown"?

 

[Shannon]

I was going to have it Unknown - You tell me....

 

[Shannon]

3 fullstops, not 4 by the way.

 

[GilesGuthrie]

Don't know why it worked for me and not you, but I've fixed it for you. See attachment.

Just found another way of doing it:
Open Dreamweaver
In the New Document that it opens, choose the Show Code View.
Go to your frameset file in Windows Explorer.
Right click it and choose Edit with Dreamweaver MX.
Now edit the contents of the <title></title> tags.


Anyway, here you go:

 

[Shannon]

Originally posted by GilesGuthrie
Don't know why it worked for me and not you, but I've fixed it for you. See attachment.

Just found another way of doing it:
Open Dreamweaver
In the New Document that it opens, choose the Show Code View.
Go to your frameset file in Windows Explorer.
Right click it and choose Edit with Dreamweaver MX.
Now edit the contents of the <title></title> tags.


Anyway, here you go:

Cool. Thanks Giles! 👍

 

[Pako]

That is correct. To summerize, the title that is displayed is the frame.html file where each subsiquent frame resides in, the shell of the changing content if you will. That is the html document that you need to edit the page title in. As you know, for frames to work, you have to have one html document as the master page with all the framing properties, and for each division by frames you need to direct it to subsequent html documents. It is the Parent html document that contains the page properties, where the page title resides.

 

[ALPHA]

Frames are smelly!
But if you can see no frame border they aren't as smelly but smelly!

Well said Pako and GG and the frameset.html page should be renamed to index.html and the other index changed or else it will load up with index first with just the index page not the hole frameset if I am wrong?

 

[Shannon]

Originally posted by ALPHA
Frames are smelly!
But if you can see no frame border they aren't as smelly but smelly!

Well said Pako and GG and the frameset.html page should be renamed to index.html and the other index changed or else it will load up with index first with just the index page not the hole frameset if I am wrong?

So rename the frameset.htm file to index.htm and the original index.htm to index2.htm or something like that?

 

[ALPHA]

Yip! - Cause when a domain name www.yoursite.com is entered into the browser it instantly looks for the index.htm/html page whihc is the home/default page of the website!

So yeh do that but make sure when the names are changed teh files link properly back to the new index.htm so everything works.

See if you go to http://www.kaon.com you typed no index thing. But it loads off an index page. except this index page is .php extension. See you can type http://www.kaon.com/index.php and you get the same thing! - Amazing

 

[GilesGuthrie]

That all depends upon the server setup, but typically, when there is no filename specified, the search order is something like:
index.html
index.htm
default.htm
index.asp
index.php
index.cfm

Jordan can probably tell you more about this since he has his own web server. I have one too, but I haven't got it working yet!

 

[Nissian GT-R]

can dreamweaver make CSS scrollbars(colored)?

 

[ALPHA]

No I don't think so but go here: http://www.echoecho.com/toolcustomscroll.htm

Type in the hex value or use normal words and it will make the code for you! Easy!