Sharepoint displays ‘Basic page’ in the browser title bar for any basic pages.
To change, directly edit the .aspx file in windows explorer. To ge to that, use e.g. Start > Run and paste in the address of your sharepoint site which you can take from its URL, something like: ‘\\myspserver.mydomain.com\root\documentation\myteam\Documents\’
When editing the .aspx file, look for text like this:
<asp:Content ContentPlaceHolderId="PlaceHolderPageTitle" runat="server">
<SharePoint:ListFormPageTitle runat="server"/>
</asp:Content >
Take out:
<SharePoint:ListFormPageTitle runat="server"/>
and put in your own title. So you end up with something like this:
<asp:Content ContentPlaceHolderId="PlaceHolderPageTitle" runat="server">
My Page Title
</asp:Content>
You may instead see text like this:
<asp:Content ContentPlaceHolderId="PlaceHolderPageTitle" runat="server">
<SharePoint:EncodedLiteral runat="server" text="<%$Resources:wss,webpagecreation_bp_title%>" EncodeMethod='HtmlEncode'/>
</asp:Content>
If so, take out:
text="<%$Resources:wss,webpagecreation_bp_title%>"
and put in your own title. So you end up with something like this:
<asp:Content ContentPlaceHolderId="PlaceHolderPageTitle" runat="server">
<SharePoint:EncodedLiteral runat="server" text="My Page Title" EncodeMethod='HtmlEncode'/>
</asp:Content>
(From Answer 22 at http://www.go4answers.com/Example/change-page-title-page-already-created-63446.aspx)
