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  • Alec Colebrook-Clark 134 posts 258 karma points
    Jul 23, 2009 @ 15:11
    Alec Colebrook-Clark
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    New Forum?

    Hey all,

    Just thought, would it be a good idea to have a forum around design principles and/or best practices?

    Im aware this could be covered in the using umbraco forum, however the question im wanting to ask doesnt fit in there.The question itself is "is it a good idea to allow users a seperate property for the title page, or to just use the @pagename reference?"

    just an idea

     

    Alec

  • Douglas Robar 3570 posts 4711 karma points MVP ∞ admin c-trib
    Jul 23, 2009 @ 17:43
    Douglas Robar
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    Perhaps another section might be helpful for such questions about requesting guidance/advice.

    To your specific question... I try to use the pagename/@nodeName if possible but some designs/clients just don't make that reasonable. If they want a reeeeeeeeaaaalllllly long page title that's lousy for urls, for instance. In those cases I create a 'pageTitle' property and in my xslt's I check to see if string(data[@alias='pageTitle']) != '' and use the pageTitle if set and the @nodeName if the pageTitle is empty.

    I've even had the situation in which the @nodeName was used to specify the url, a 'pageTitle' was used to display the <title> in the <head> and as the <h1> on the page template, and a 'navText' field was used to specify how the page should be listed in the navigation. Again, in the xslt's I would check for the navText, pageTitle, and @nodeName and fall back as appropriate if the more specific field were left empty (as it often was in practice).

    Does that help?

    cheers,
    doug.

  • Alec Colebrook-Clark 134 posts 258 karma points
    Jul 24, 2009 @ 10:15
    Alec Colebrook-Clark
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    Thanks Doug

    I actually created another post on the UI section as i thought it would fit in there better. But the advice you have given is just what i was looking for!

     

    Cheers,

    Alec

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