Titles
This has been bugging me for a long, long time now. It's just never struck me to post about it.
I usually have several tabs open, be they from this site or outside, and the only text I see that indicates the content of a TWF page is "The Webmaste Fo...". This is particularly unhelpful when I have multiple threads open, and I switch focus for whatever reason and want to return to a tab (interrupts me mid-thought when in the middle of a post). Perhaps having the true thread title with The Webmaster Forums appended will be more useful, as then I can identify unique portions in a title string.
I recall thinking about this back when I used Windows/IE and had a full taskbar...
What do others think?
(Not sure if changing this will have any adverse effects such as with SEO etc.)
Suzanne posted this at 16:44 — 21st April 2004.
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That would make my life so much easier!
I have developed this weird way of handling the pages/files so I don't trigger the auto-read feature, too.
Mark Hensler posted this at 04:36 — 22nd April 2004.
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I guess we could change them to something like "thread title @ The Webmaster Forums".
I don't have time to do it right now, so feel free to discuss until I get back.
Unless Suzanne wants to figure out how to change it.
Mark Hensler
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Suzanne posted this at 06:02 — 22nd April 2004.
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lol, I'll poke around and see what I can do over the weekend, how's that?
Currently it says The Webmaster Forums - Titles. If I hover in Safari, I get the whole thing instead of "The Webmaster Forums ..." which is what I usually have.
We could...
1. get a favicon
2. make it TWF: Thread - The Webmaster Forums
3. make it Thread - The Webmaster Forums
What is the consensus?
Abhishek Reddy posted this at 06:22 — 22nd April 2004.
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I'll go with 1 and 3. Renegade seems to agree.
The Webmistress posted this at 07:19 — 22nd April 2004.
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I also agree, 1 & 3
Suzanne posted this at 16:55 — 22nd April 2004.
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Sounds like a winner! I'll contact Megan for the favicon. Whee!
Mark Hensler posted this at 00:09 — 23rd April 2004.
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Titles changed to match option #3.
Suzanne posted this at 01:09 — 23rd April 2004.
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speedy, mr. hensler.
Abhishek Reddy posted this at 04:01 — 23rd April 2004.
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That's so much better. Thanks!
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