Searching for easy header code to put...

Mar 20th, 2013 at 02:24 PM
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Holly
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Without anyone sending me to the w3schools, where I will only end up tearing my hair out, :o LOL can someone please provide a very easy header code, so that I can place just the title into my website?
Would this code below be the correct code, or am I missing something? Any help is greatly appreciated. thanks!

<html>
<head>
<title>Title of the document</title>
</head>
Mar 20th, 2013 at 02:45 PM
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SadDuck
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Yes, that would work. On most sites it's common practice to include the DOC TYPE such as:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"> before the <head>

But if all you want is your title, then what you have works.
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Mar 20th, 2013 at 02:47 PM
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Holly
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Thanks Gunsmoke (BTW I love the name!). can you tell me what the advantage would be to add the DOC code and would I do it exactly as you have provided? I'm not sure where I would put my title in then(?)
Mar 20th, 2013 at 02:51 PM
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SadDuck
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Definition and Usage

The <!DOCTYPE> declaration must be the very first thing in your HTML document, before the <html> tag.

The <!DOCTYPE> declaration is not an HTML tag; it is an instruction to the web browser about what version of HTML the page is written in.

In HTML 4.01, the <!DOCTYPE> declaration refers to a DTD, because HTML 4.01 was based on SGML. The DTD specifies the rules for the markup language, so that the browsers render the content correctly.

HTML5 is not based on SGML, and therefore does not require a reference to a DTD.

Tip: Always add the <!DOCTYPE> declaration to your HTML documents, so that the browser knows what type of document to expect.

You can get more information here... http://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_doctype.asp

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Mar 20th, 2013 at 02:52 PM
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SadDuck
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Your document would then look like this...

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Title of the document</title>
</head>

<body>
The content of the document......
</body>

</html>
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Mar 20th, 2013 at 03:12 PM
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Holly
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Thank you once again. I initially tried my very oversimplified version and guess what? Coffee cup put the Doc file in there automatically! The less coding I have to do, the less dangerous I become, LOL. Thanks so much for the help. I always say that this site has some of the nicest people on it. I now have you to include on that list! Have a great week.:) Thanks again.
Mar 20th, 2013 at 03:22 PM
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SadDuck
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Glad to help. Let us know if you have any other problems. :cool:
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Mar 20th, 2013 at 04:34 PM
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Jo Rice
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I would imagine that VSD already sets up sites for doc types, and it's not set up for using html5 so I wouldn't go that way at this time. I could be wrong in that it might use it and just doesn't create it though lol. Either way I'm very sure it will create the doc types and the titles for you, I don't "think" you need to do that by hand with code, maybe just to be able to get to the area to edit it?
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Mar 20th, 2013 at 05:05 PM
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Prism
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The title is added when the page is created, part of the system. It can be changed at any time as with meta information. There is not much you cannot do with VSD. If you look at the structured code it produces. Not responsive(yet ;)) but real neat. Also quite modifiable albeit not re editable in VSD.

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Mar 20th, 2013 at 05:22 PM
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Eric Rohloff
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If your building a custom html page to handle some custom script the you'll add to VSD using an Iframe then the HTML page code will be useful but otherwise let VSD do all the heavy lifting.;)
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