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kermit wrote: {sitename} is the global site name as defined during install or in site admin->global settings.

{title} is the page title as defined in content->pages ('title' field under the 'main' tab) for each page. this can be different than what's displayed in the menu, {menu_text}. so you can have a long page {title} while keeping its {menu_text} short and sweet.

which would give you a typical template's default tag of:
{sitename} - {title}

so, to have 'complete' control over text, omit {sitename} from the template, and just use {title}.
{title}

or if you want some custom text before or after it that's not the same as the configured site title, use something like
{title} - Some Other Text

then define the 'custom' page title (you refer to it as 'page heading') for each page ('main' tab, 'title' field). in the template,
{title}
{content}

would duplicate the page's title tag text as the page heading above the content in the page. so {title} would appear as the page and as the page's content 'heading'.

if you'd rather use the (usually) shorter 'menu text' as a heading, use the {menu_text} tag instead.

if you'd like to pick-and-choose what is used as a heading on each individual page, you'd omit it from the template and then add something like {title}, {menu_text}, or Your Custom Page Heading at the top of each page's content instead.

if you want to pick and choose which, {title} or {menu_text} is used in a page's tag, create a duplicate template with the necessary change, assigning the new template to the pages you want to use the alternate tag.

a page's "title attribute" under the 'options' tab is the title attribute of that page's anchor in the generated menus (Contact), not a page . the page {title} ({title}) is defined under the 'main' tab as the 'title' field.

Ulysses wrote: We have decided that it would be more logical to move the element input field from the Main to Options tab so it is together with the tags where it belongs, and then to add a new field "Page Heading" in the Main tab, to add a headline to the page in the same position as currently the element is used as a heading.

Big question (for me anyway). How hard is it to add a new field (say) "headline" to the CMS? Is this major surgery?

Thanks

Ulysses wrote: Hi Kermit,

Yes, you're right, it would be easier to leave the items on the tabs where they are and add notes to explain what is what. We probably should do that, at least for now.

The only thing is that if we take the element out of the Page Headline position, because there is a print page graphic next to it, we then get a big blank space above the Header we add on the main content area.

It's easier to show this than explain it. Here's a graphic of what I mean. That's why I thought adding a new field (say) "headline" and placimg it in the tag position would not mess up the page layout.

note that "print this page" functions are all but obsolete these days.. how many site visitors to you expect to have that won't be using a browser that understands print media stylesheets? we're basically talking ie3 and netscape 4.7x or earlier here....  if the icon's buggin ya.. take it out! it's not needed.