HTML Page titles in HTML version?

On Sun, Feb 12, 2012 at 17:54, Jay Levitt <jay.levitt@gmail.com> wrote:

I frequently find myself with multiple tabs open to the docs site, all
titled "PosgreSQL: Documentation". Does the new site back-end make it easy
to add a meaningful <TITLE> tag, or would that take a mass commit to the
core docs?

Actually, it *has* the information in the title. E.g. "PostgreSQL:
Documentation: Manuals: Queries". It's just too long.

Maybe we need to reverse the elements in the title?

But I don't think it's limited to docs - don't you have the same
problem with all other pages? They all start with "PostgreSQL:" -
perhaps that should be changed to instead suffix them with "-
PostgreSQL"?

(moving to -www since it affects the whole site)

--
 Magnus Hagander
 Me: http://www.hagander.net/
 Work: http://www.redpill-linpro.com/

Magnus Hagander wrote:

On Sun, Feb 12, 2012 at 17:54, Jay Levitt<jay.levitt@gmail.com> wrote:

I frequently find myself with multiple tabs open to the docs site, all
titled "PosgreSQL: Documentation". Does the new site back-end make it easy
to add a meaningful<TITLE> tag, or would that take a mass commit to the
core docs?

Actually, it *has* the information in the title. E.g. "PostgreSQL:
Documentation: Manuals: Queries". It's just too long.

Maybe we need to reverse the elements in the title?

But I don't think it's limited to docs - don't you have the same
problem with all other pages? They all start with "PostgreSQL:" -
perhaps that should be changed to instead suffix them with "-
PostgreSQL"?

Yeah, in general it's best practice to post the most specific part of the
title first, so that short tabs will still show the relevant info. Also
used to help with SEO; not sure if it still does, but it might explain why
you don't always get the right page when doing a Google search.

Jay

On Sun, Feb 12, 2012 at 22:20, Jay Levitt <jay.levitt@gmail.com> wrote:

Magnus Hagander wrote:

On Sun, Feb 12, 2012 at 17:54, Jay Levitt<jay.levitt@gmail.com>  wrote:

I frequently find myself with multiple tabs open to the docs site, all
titled "PosgreSQL: Documentation". Does the new site back-end make it
easy
to add a meaningful<TITLE>  tag, or would that take a mass commit to the
core docs?

Actually, it *has* the information in the title. E.g. "PostgreSQL:
Documentation: Manuals: Queries". It's just too long.

Maybe we need to reverse the elements in the title?

But I don't think it's limited to docs - don't you have the same
problem with all other pages? They all start with "PostgreSQL:" -
perhaps that should be changed to instead suffix them with "-
PostgreSQL"?

Yeah, in general it's best practice to post the most specific part of the
title first, so that short tabs will still show the relevant info.  Also
used to help with SEO; not sure if it still does, but it might explain why
you don't always get the right page when doing a Google search.

Probably. I've put this on our TODO list for things to do with the
website in a reasonable short term.

(I doubt it has anything to do with SEO though, especially someone
like google are a lot smarter than that)

--
 Magnus Hagander
 Me: http://www.hagander.net/
 Work: http://www.redpill-linpro.com/