Improving the meta title data on Domino Blog entries ( a passed on tip )
Sean Cull 7 October 2008 20:25:08
When you look at the Google results for Sean Burgess you will see that the title of the Blog article is clearly shown in Google whereas if you look at my current Google results you can see that the default template behaviour is just to use the site title - I think that Seans method is more informative.
At ILUG 2007 Sean explained that you can change this by using the DXSubject tag in addition to the DXTitle tag. Note that you can only do this where the page displayed relates to a single article otherwise there is no DXSubject value - took me a while to realise that ;)
In my case I created a new block template called HTMLTopWithSubject and used that on the Document and InlineCommentsDocument page templates.
Steve Castledine, the developer of the IBM Blog Template, has just posted a really useful guide to its configuration :
http://www.stevecastledine.com/sc.nsf/dx/domino-blog-theme-editing-and-tag-library/
Does anyone know why hot spot hyperlinks like the one above don't always work in the blog template ?
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2Sean cull 08/10/2008 10:33:01 Hi Steve I am pasting in the URL, highlighting it and then creating a link hotspot using the standard Notes functionality The hotspot exists in the Notes UI but is not translated in the web ui If you look at this article { Link } the links on both names and articles both exist in Notes but only the links on the names came through to the web I can send you the database if you want Cheers, Sean
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1Steve Castledine 08/10/2008 10:28:05 Hyper Links
To be honest the adding of the subject within the title for a document is an error by me - previous default themes always had it. Its important as when people add bookmarks for your pages it uses the title as the default text.
With the hyperlinks, are you just typing them and expect them to be links or are you using "Create > Hotspot > Link Hotpot" ?