Re: [binarycloud-dev] BC and the <title> issue...

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Peter Bowyer wrote:
> 
> At 07:33 AM 7/7/01 -0400, you wrote:
> >With the present platform, the source of the <title> is, of
> >course, the template used out of the $bc_page['templates']
> >selection.  The result of this machinery is that the
> >reusability of the template is diminished, and you _must_
> >have a unique template for each page if you wish the title to be
> >different, even though such a template may be simple and
> >is able to be generalized and used over and over for a
> >large percentage of, or all, pages.
> 
> What about the meta description and keywords? I like to change these
> slightly for each page on the web site - it helps with search engine
> ranking.  A method of specifying default keywords, and then custom ones to
> append/replace the default with would be a good idea.
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Now, my wizard programmer, Jason Hines, sent me this comment on
the side, and, for us (Eye), it is pertinent to the "ideal" of
abstracting
dog-work tasks into BC.

Quote---
I haven't looked at the system in detail to get a full analysis of this
problem, but by just reading this scenerio I can see where we may need
to have the entire <HEAD> stanza as a template in itself.  There will be
cases where we have multiple MASTER templates using this same HEAD
template.  (one site that has different table/layout designs).  In
theory this doesn't seem like a big deal to implement for such a
worthwhile feature to have.
Unquote---

I did think about this fleetingly as I "ran into" the <title> problem,
but it was a little further from my mind as <title> is the first, and
most immediate "problem" that I ran into.

HOWEVER, IN THE REAL WORLD, we do have an argument for supporting
a "template" for the entire <head> portion, which would also solve
Peter's need (which seems to be similar to ours).

We have a client, for example, who has a real estate site, and he
wants to be high on the search lists.  Everyone has had this sort
of client problem.  Well, the weightings of indexers are arcane,
ever-changing,
and this client sort of thinks he understands keywords better than
us, after we kept hand-editing his pages, trying things.

So, what did we do???  We build him a tool so that he could put in
his own keywords, and this got him off of our back.

This desire for a <head> template probably has some echo with youse
guys out there who have had these sort of "problems".

I would like to hear what the community experience/desire is on
this suggestion.  I personally do not think this is a trivial,
fluffy request/facility.  It would certainly add a lot of value
of BC to us.

_jef

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Justin Farnsworth
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