Product info to Meta Description

[robinantill]

I have a work around which adds in an unique meta-description and extends the Title for each products making it more descriptive.. Details on this post.http://community.actinic.com/showthr...309#post277309
I also use this workaround in the Boiler Plate section giving an unique sector on repeating information.

What I don't understand is why so FEW web sites seem to bother with the Meta-Description, you can see this by looking at the source code of a web site, when Google puts a great deal of importance on it. http://googlewebmastercentral.blogsp...scription.html Many sites don't even make use of Actinic's default settings which is better than none, but the way I have automated adding Meta-Descriptions is far superior (in my opinion and experience)

Perhaps the more experienced web site writers can enlighten me.

[NicolaUK]

robinantill, I'd love to know more

[robinantill]

As I put in my other post, I did this be re-writing some code in the page layouts (templates) as this is not an option within Actinic.

Spellfame http://www.spellfame.co.uk/ gave me a Snapshot to work on, in which I made the changes. When this was done the snapshot was uploaded which implemented the changes, however, it was important during this time that there was no price changes or products added but the site traded as normal during this period. Martin at Spellfame is happy to comment about what I did for them.

I am happy to help other Actinic users adapt their templates, please get in touch.

[globalee]

Thanks for that Norman

Back to your original question:
Actinic needs to see product variables within a Product List and only within a Section page.

The following code respects that and will work in the HEAD of your overall layout:

<actinic:block if="%3cactinic%3avariable%20name%3d%22PageType%22%20%2f%3e%20%3d%3d%20%22Section%22">
	<actinic:block type="ProductList">
	  <actinic:variable name="ProductName" />
	</actinic:block>
</actinic:block>

We're only displaying the product name as a demo here.

Just what I needed, regards