Comments on: iWeb Tip #17 – Page Titles in iWeb

By: kim pilgrim

kim pilgrim — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 15:52:41 +0000

I am creating a new website with iweb. I am unsure of the difference between the page header and page title. Can you explain? Is the header where you want to follow the above suggestion and the title page where I would put something simple like locations? Thanks.

By: Karen

Karen — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 18:00:36 +0000

I meant to say “your above mentioned html code not what I pasted (smiles)

By: Karen

Karen — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 17:58:48 +0000

Hi are you saying that if I put this code in an html snippet on each page in iWeb I can put whatever title I want?

parent.document.title=”Add Your Title Here”

thanks – not so becky but determined to build a nice site using iWeb

By: 877-My Way Carpet

877-My Way Carpet — Mon, 11 Jul 2011 10:35:23 +0000

iwebSEO TOOL (meta Tags for iWeb) It’s FREE Good Luck!

http://www.ragesw.com/products/iweb-seo-tool/download/

By: Lodewijk Bergmans

Lodewijk Bergmans — Tue, 24 May 2011 09:21:46 +0000

Hi,

thanks for the tip!
A suggestion I did not see: you can make the color of the background and the text opaque by setting the opacity slider to 0%: in that case you can put the box just anywhere and it will not be visible, regardless of a background color or image.

BTW: tried to copy the text box between pages, but that doesn’t seem to work; will now try the HTML snippet.

cheers,
Lodewijk

By: Rob

Rob — Wed, 11 May 2011 20:54:53 +0000

Hey,
so what if i deleted that text box already? Anyway to bring it back?

thanks.

By: Aaron

Aaron — Tue, 15 Feb 2011 03:48:14 +0000

I changed the title in the html file using coda, but everytime I re-sync the site it copies over the html file and I have to do it again. any thioughts? I also have the same issue with the image slider. I place it and everything works fine, but every time I publish the site it erases the image slider folder that I uploaded to my directory.

By: iWebUnlimited

iWebUnlimited — Mon, 14 Feb 2011 17:31:03 +0000

You must double click the text box that’s found on a page upon first adding the page, then go to the text inspector you’ll find a little square color box that you click which will open up the color picker. Then just choose the same color as your background.

By: Aaron

Aaron — Mon, 14 Feb 2011 05:02:07 +0000

Ok. So I am trying to do this, but can’t work out how to change the colour of the text. Can’t find an option in the inspector. I can find it for a normal text box. But not the title text box. Am I missing something. Aaron.

By: iWebUnlimited

iWebUnlimited — Wed, 01 Dec 2010 02:11:29 +0000

Ah Harry, you’re on the right track, but that won’t do it alone. You need to put the code inside javascript brackets. I just tested it out and it works great. Good find, I’ll have to update this post with this tip. For now, here’s the tip code. Just put this in an HTML Snippet and it will do the job.

By: Harry

Harry — Wed, 01 Dec 2010 01:36:08 +0000

Sorry it didn’t print the entire text. Just remove the at the end.

By: Harry

Harry — Wed, 01 Dec 2010 01:26:47 +0000

I have trawled around the internet and have found that the following in a html snippet does the trick

parent.document.title=”Your Title”

By: Zahid

Zahid — Sat, 27 Nov 2010 12:20:08 +0000

Thank you for this website. During the development of my own site I have definitely referred back here on many occasions!!

Question, I am trying to find out for sure if using accents will have a negative impact?? If my company name is ZízImages (note the accented i), will this equally be found in search engines if someone looks for “ZizImages”? Or should I change all my titles to the unaccented “i” for better resutls?

By: Jayson

Jayson — Thu, 18 Nov 2010 15:14:58 +0000

I have to amend my first comment. Place holder pictures cannot be deleted off of the Photos Page, So that page will not work. I tried the “Welcome Page” and that worked fine. You can erase everything on that page and save the Title box and it will work like the tip says.

By: Jayson

Jayson — Thu, 18 Nov 2010 12:25:19 +0000

I found that this worked if I used a template page. But it did not work with a Blank page. Even though there is a pre-made Title Box on the Blank page it used the side bare title on the web. If I used a pre-made template for example “Photos” I changed the title in the title box and it showed up like you said on the web. Nice tip. It is easy to take a Template page and erase all the things on it except the title box and go from there. Well worth the trouble.

By: Marilee Karamanski

Marilee Karamanski — Sat, 30 Oct 2010 03:44:02 +0000

Me too! If there is any way to add meta tags to the iWeb website directly, I would *LOVE* it!. I’m currently using the iWeb SEO tool. I think it works, cut it’s clunky at best.

By: Sandra

Sandra — Tue, 19 Oct 2010 19:52:55 +0000

It works. I now have decent page titles on all my pages. Any idea how to get google to find my other pages using these titles? I’ve tried every search that I can think of to get one of my page titles (not the welcome page) to show up on it’s own in a search. Any ideas??

By: kate

kate — Thu, 30 Sep 2010 17:32:56 +0000

I’ve thought of using this technique in place of meta tags since we can’t add those in iweb, but that runs into the “secret text” problem probably. Maybe people who use iweb should be exempt from the secret text rule since we have no other way of adding titles and meta tags!

By the by, since I (and many other people I’m sure!) are stumped on meta tags, I’d love an iweb tip on how to add them! :)

By: jamiea

jamiea — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 16:43:32 +0000

I just tried this AFTER I built most of the site. It screwed up all the fonts and text placements. Luckily, I could revert. Did I miss something?

By: Sketch

Sketch — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 02:18:33 +0000

Sweet!! Love this tip! Can you put a logo before the text some how? that would make this tip AWESOME!!

By: robbiep

robbiep — Sat, 19 Jun 2010 16:46:10 +0000

I meant title text box.

By: robbiep

robbiep — Sat, 19 Jun 2010 16:45:19 +0000

I have found that if you change themes a new title page comes up. Then you can go back to your own theme with the title there. It worked for me anyhow.
Love the site.

By: iWebUnlimited

iWebUnlimited — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 18:58:33 +0000

Yes you are missing something. You can’t just place a text box. If you read my tip carefully it talks about the default text box that comes on the page. Use that as your page title. If you deleted it you’ll have to create a new page, and copy and paste you stuff onto that page. Point being that you have to use the text box that is already there when you choose a template.

By: Nekeia

Nekeia — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 17:37:43 +0000

Hi Jason,
This doesn’t seem to be working for me. I’m testing this out on a page I designed from scratch. I’ve created a text box, which I’ve placed in the upper right corner of the page. Text matches the page’s background color to hide it, but the page name isn’t displaying what I’ve typed. Have I missed something?

By: Eric Hartmann

Eric Hartmann — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 20:20:55 +0000

The issue that I find with this is since I use background and textures for my sites, that i can’t do it via this method. Another quick method I found is to change the html page in your iDisk directly, and change Home to something different like SeaLight Entertainment – Home or really anything!

BUT I did use this for another site I worked on and it worked out perfectly! (http://www.ActionFilmWorkshops.com)

Thanks Jason!