Hi Joe,

We often use the PageTitle control in many of our skins to automatically display the Page Title on the page. Usually, this works out well for us but we do run across scenarios when we need to have the page title, as shown on the page, to be different than the Page.Title (shown in menu) or the Page.Name (override shown in title bar or tab). What we have done in the past for this is use the html module added to the top pane with a special css class on the page. The css class hides the automatic page title and the html module includes the "custom" page title. This isn't ideal because the PageTitle control is usually wrapped in an H1 and hiding heading elements can cause search engines to penalize the site. So, would you consider the following?

• Adding display settings for the PageTitle control which we can use in the layout.master or the theme.skin to set a particular element and css class for the rendering of the Page Title. Currently the control renders just the Page.Title or the Page.Name depending on if the "Page Title Override" is populated. We would need to be able to have the element controlled by the PageTitle control for the next request to really solve our "issue."
• Add a "Show Page Title" option to Page Settings which is defaulted to true and of course only does anything if the PageTitle control is on the page. When set to false, the PageTitle control will not render, thus solving our issue with the hidden H1.
• Another possibility is to have a setting ("Page Heading" maybe?) for what to show on the page for the Page Title. The order of precedence here would be Page Title (Page.Title) is used in the menu, title bar/tab and PageTitle control if the "Page Title Override" (Page.Name) or the "Page Heading" isn't used. If the "Page Title Override" is set, the Page Title is used in the menu but not the titlebar/tab or the PageTitle control (this is the current functionality). If the "Page Heading" is set, the PageTitle control uses that but nothing else (titlebar/tab or menu) uses it.

I'm more than happy to make these changes and submit them to you but I wanted to run it past you first.

Hope all of that makes sense. Your thoughts?

Thanks,
Joe D.

I suppose that when we do add the page heading then we could add the Show Title option at the same time and both of those settings could be hidden if the PageTitle control does not exist in layout.master.

Best,

Joe

True indeed! You guys do great work!