Constructing meaningful page titles
Now I’ve modified blosxom (the blog engine I’m using) in accord with Mark Pilgrim’s suggestions about page titles.
Here’s the Perl, in case you’re interested:
my $default_page_title = "Peter Lindberg's Weblog";<br />
my $page_title = '';<br />
$page_title .= $pi_da . ' ' if $pi_da;<br />
$page_title .= $pi_mo . ' ' if $pi_mo;<br />
$page_title .= $pi_yr if $pi_yr;<br />
$page_title = $default_page_title if $page_title eq '';<br />
And then in my template I write <TITLE>Tesugen.com: $page_title</TITLE>, of course.