The page's title is just about what you probably think it is: the overall name of the page (not to be confused with the name of the file you're creating). If someone views the page in a graphical browser (such as Netscape or Mosaic), the title appear in the title bar of the browser's window (I'll show you an example in a sec).

     To define a title, you surround the text with the <TITLE> and </TITLE> tags. For example, if your want the title of your page to be My Home Sweet Home Page, you'd enter it as follows:

     Note that you always place the title inside the head section, so your basic HTML document now looks like so:

     The following figure shows this document loaded into the Windows 95 version of the Netscape Navigator browser program. Notice how the title appears in the window's title bar.

Most Windows Web browsers display the page title in, of all places, the window's title bar.