Page Titles

[george]

I thought one of the good things about v7 would be the addition of the page title form. I am using the Smart theme which uses text links for Brochure and Catalog. Both work well but only with basic page titles. Ideally a page title would be along the lines of...

Badges - English Clubs A-B - Football Heaven for football badges, souvenirs and memorabilia.

If you put this in as the page title it appears in the navigation text links as this as well. Can this be worked around?

[SureshB]

Page Titles

Hi George,

There is a workaround, if you have long page titles like this 'Badges - English Clubs A-B - Football Heaven for football badges, souvenirs and memorabilia'

You need to comment out certain NETQUOTEVARs in 'Act_BrochurePrimary.html' and hard code the links for required pages.

Please follow the steps below to do this:

1. Save 'Act_BrochurePrimary.html' under different name as a copy (e.g., Act_BrochurePrimary1.html)

2. Open Act_BrochurePrimary1.html and search for
<b>NETQUOTEVAR:PAGETITLE</b>
and replace with
<b><!--NETQUOTEVAR:PAGETITLE-->HOME</b>

3. Now, search for NETQUOTEVAR:HEADERGUIDE and replace with
<!--NETQUOTEVAR:HEADERGUIDE-->

4. In the same line, manually insert Links to the required pages
(e.g., <a href="http://www.footballheaven.net/acatalog/shop.html">Enter Shop</a> |
<a href="http://www.footballheaven.net/index.html">Home Page</a> |
<a href="http://www.footballheaven.net/acatalog/Contact_Us.html">Contact Us</a> | and so on ...)

5. Save and close Act_BrochurePrimary1.html

6. Go to Page details in Actinic (Home Icon on Content Tree), Change the Layout and select Act_BrochurePrimary1.html

7. Select 'Web | Offline Preview' to see the results

Note: To get the HTML page name in Actinic, Go to 'View | Business Settings | Options | Miscellaneous Options' and tick 'Show Page Names When Editing Catalog'

Hope this helps,

Cheers,

[george]

Hmmm...

How about adding `Football Heaven` before the <b>NETQUOTEVAR:PAGETITLE</b> and `For football souvenirs and memorabilia` after, in the primary templates?

That, I think, should keep the actinic page title between the two phrases. Please advise on this.

ta.

[DBurrows]

I've also noticed that you cant change the HTML file name to remove the underscores. These underscores are not search engine friendly, SEO companys recommend using hyphens not underscores, i changed all the pages on my V6 site but i cannot on V7, upon applying the changes the page name reverts back to using _'s not -'s.

[cdicken]

You're quite right about the underscore/hyphen issue, and it has been reported as a bug in the software.

If you put this in as the page title it appears in the navigation text links as this as well. Can this be worked around?

Which navigation links? The value entered into the 'Page Title' field should only appear in the <title> tag of the HTML pages and should allow you to do what you want.

[Carole]

Size of text

Hi George,

Can't find the link asking for comments about the text size so put it here. My twopenn'th is I would prefer it slightly larger especially on the scrolling teletext type bit. I increased all mine by one on 'Smart' and think it made all the difference.

Carole

[george]

You're quite right about the underscore/hyphen issue, and it has been reported as a bug in the software. Which navigation links? The value entered into the 'Page Title' field should only appear in the <title> tag of the HTML pages and should allow you to do what you want.

The navigation text links along the top on the rh side. At the moment they say...

Homepage | Our Company | Contact Us & Location | Customer Feedback | Links Page | Enter Shop |

If you change any of these page titles actinic squashes it all into the space for the link.

[cdicken]

Apologies George (and Suresh!) I have rather complicated matters here.

George, I understand now which navigation links you mean. I got a bit confused yesterday.

How about adding `Football Heaven` before the <b>NETQUOTEVAR:PAGETITLE</b> and `For football souvenirs and memorabilia` after, in the primary templates?

This will work absolutely fine - and has the advantage that you will not have to comment out NETQUOTEVAR:HEADERGUIDE (as per Suresh's suggestion).