Re: Title content

Date: Sun, 15 Jun 2003 15:55:49 +0100
Newsgroups: comp.infosystems.www.authoring.html
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Stan Brown <email-address-deleted> wrote:
>>I've been thinking about creating a bread crumb function by using title
>>content, but I have a gut feeling that this would be inappropriate, for
>>example:
>
>I agree. Titles should (usually) be arranged so that the most
>_specific_ part is first. This makes it easier for users to scan the
>"about 6,800" results from a search engine and find the most helpful
>ones.(*) But breadrumbs go the other way, from most general to most
>specific.
But that can be reversed. My initial reservation was that on sub pages
it could result in content being listed in the title that didn't belong
to that particular page. However I currently think that this depends on
the content and structure of the site. As an experiment I applied it to
one of the deepest level pages on one of my sites:
<title>Wake Up - Lyric « Gobe CD album « Discography «
Guesch Patti info site</title>
All the title content is relevant to that particular page afaics, and
the most important information is still listed first.
I currently use <title>Wake Up - Lyric - Guesch Patti</title> for that
page, I'm inclined to think that the reversed semi bread crumb title
provides a better description for that page.
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