Set title tag to reflect real content
by Oleg Rekutin · in Site Feedback · 07/14/2002 (8:54 pm) · 3 replies
Please, is it possible for you to adapt your web site to show the name of the resource article or the forum post or whatever the real title of the web page is in the tag?<br />
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Right now, it's always "GarageGames.com - Make Games". After having 7 windows with interesting resources and forum posts open, I really have no way of telling which is which and the only way is to click on each window, hoping it's the right one.<br />
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Also, when bookmarking, I always end up changing the title of the bookmark to something like: "Flying vehicle tips TGE Forum" because a set of bookmarks all called "GarageGames.com - Make Games" is not at all useful.<br />
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It seems like the perfect candidate for the <TITLE> tag content is the big blue heading that you have on each page. So you could display the title tag as "$heading - GarageGames.com". E.g. this page could show "New Forum Thread... - GarageGames.com" and the forum post I bookmarked today could show "Flying vehicle tips - GarageGames.com."<br />
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(And avoid "GarageGames.com - $header", because right now all I see in my task bar is "GarageGames.com - ..." :) )<br />
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I think this would be a great improvement to the site :)<br />
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If you need help with realizing this in your site (looks like you guys are running PHP), let me know, I'll throw some ideas at you (ok, I'll flick them gently).</div>
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Guys, any ideas/response to this?<br />
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This is driving me nuts: 7 GarageGames.com windows on the task bar and I don't know which one has what--end up clicking unnecessary like 3-4 times. </div>
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