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Old 03-15-2005, 07:36 AM
John Bokma
 
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Re: <meta name="title"> question

anonimulo wrote:

> In alt.internet.search-engines on Wednesday 09 March 2005 01:41, John
> Bokma wrote:
>
>> anonimulo wrote:
>>
>>> Any comments will be appreciated.

>>
>> change the <title> stuff if they are meaningless. And yes, setting
>> every one of them to the name of the site is quite meaningless.
>>

> Well, all my pages do have sensible titles. It is the rest that don't.
> When I complained to the people responsible for the Intranet design
> guidelines, I was told that *they* had decided a <title> header wasn't
> needed. Presumably they don't expect people to bookmark a page.


With Firefox, and I am sure with IE too, you can rename the bookmark. I do
that often since sometimes the title is not the right description to me.

> Problem is, I am reluctant to complain again in case they notice my
> own pages aren't using the company guidelines.


Which is: adding the extra meta tag? Add it, and then complain :-D I think
your complaint is serious. It saves time when bookmarking.

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