Thanks Sascha, you method worked. Unfortunately it turned out I have bigger problem. Not all nodes have title, in which case I have to fallback to generic node.Name

I'm sure xslt can solve this issue either, but amount of markup can become frustrating. (taking into consideration possible future requirement to show bookmarks in the page title)

Anyway, final solution follows:

<title id="title" runat="server">My site -
            <%# Title %>
</title>

 public partial class Master : System.Web.UI.MasterPage
    {
        protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {
            title.DataBind();
        }

        public string Title
        {
            get
            {
                var node = Node.GetCurrent();

                var title = node.GetProperty("title");

                if (title != null)
                {
                    return title.Value;
                }
                else
                {
                    return node.Name;
                }
            }
        }
    }

One alternative you might want to look at (and may it just be for the sake of it as your solution works absolutely fine) is to use the useIfEmpty attribute of <umbraco:Item> like this:

<umbraco:Item ID="Item1" runat="server" field="title" useIfEmpty="pageName" xslt="concat('My site - ',{0})" xsltDisableEscaping="true"/>

I haven't tried it out myself yet to use inline xslt with an alternative field, but maybe worth a shot. 

Cheers,

Sascha

Thanks Sascha, I'll keep this trick up my sleeve :)

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