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Some time ago I figured out a way to override the existing title of a page but not change it. Now I can't remember how to do either and I need to.

How do you change the title of a page? How do you turn off the override service?

I tried using iWeb SEO to change it after publishing, didn't work.

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Posted on Nov 11, 2008 4:37 PM

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Answer 1

ragesw

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Nov 11, 2008 5:17 PM in response to Kenneth Hughes

If you mean overriding it using Javascript then this will not work with search engines since they do not process javascript code.

If you are having problems with iWeb SEO Tool, please email us on our support pages at http://www.ragesw.com/support/

I would be happy to help you work through this problem. Please provide me with more information about what are doing. Perhaps you have just missed a step.

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Answer 2

Nov 11, 2008 5:28 PM in response to ragesw

Two separate issues:

1) Want to change the Title of a page in iWeb. In the past I couldn't figure it out but found some way to override each individual page by applying a common title to each page in the Site. When the page loads in a browser, you see the wrong title and then finally the override title.

2) Tried to use iWeb SEO to apply a new title to each individual page. Meta tags work, title does not. iWeb SEO shows what it should be, but if you open up the source, it isn't there.

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Ethmoid

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Nov 12, 2008 1:25 AM in response to Kenneth Hughes

Are you talking about the Page Name? If so, to alter this, just open iWeb and then double click on the page name on the left side and change the name there. Alternatively, open the Inspector and click on page and alter the page name there.

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Nov 12, 2008 8:05 AM in response to Ethmoid

Not the page name, the title of the page that shows in the browser at the top of the browser window.

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Ethmoid

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Nov 12, 2008 8:29 AM in response to Kenneth Hughes

Well, that is still the same as the page name. Change this in iWeb and you change the page title that appears in the browser window at the top.

If you have a MMe url, then is should appear as http://web.me.com/username/sitename/pagename - Home.html/About Us.html/ContactUs.html etc.

If you have a domain then it will be http://www.yourdomain.com/Home.html/AboutUs.html/ContactUs.html etc.

The page titles that show up in the browser are exactly the same as the pages names within iWeb - change these and you change what you see in the browser.

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Nov 12, 2008 8:36 AM in response to Ethmoid

Not true.

I have a Welcome/welcome.html page that at the top of a browser window, not in the address field, reads NAZTEQ. In the source it reads <title>Nazteq Consulting</title> but is overridden by another setting to show NAZTEQ.

I want to change the title field to include more about what I do and where I am to help with SEO.

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ragesw

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Nov 12, 2008 8:49 AM in response to Kenneth Hughes

1) I have no idea what you did in step one. But I can tell you that doing it this way will not help with SEO.

2) What is your website address? There is no way that your meta tags would apply and not your title tags. Maybe you used some kind of javascript code to dynamically change your title tag after your page has loaded.

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Nov 12, 2008 8:51 AM in response to ragesw

Would love to use your Support site to post my question, but after registering, I can't login, says invalid username or password...

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Ethmoid

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Nov 12, 2008 8:51 AM in response to Kenneth Hughes

Okay, I think I understand what you are trying to do. Alter the page banner title at the top of every page?

If so, I believe that this involves you altering the html code, which you cannot do within the iWeb domain file itself.

To do this, what you need to do is publish your site to a folder from iWeb and use an html editor such as TextWrangler to edit the html code that is there. You can then save it and upload it to your server.

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Answer 10

Nov 12, 2008 9:05 AM in response to Ethmoid

Text Wrangler did it. Thanks.

Still getting an override, probably is Java in there somewhere and I forgot, but Title in Source is all that matters.

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Answer 11

Ethmoid

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Nov 12, 2008 11:12 AM in response to Kenneth Hughes

Hey, glad it worked and yes, in iWeb there will definitely be java around. iWeb is big on using java!

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