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Put "Stack Overflow" at the end of the title element
When you have a lot of Stack Overflow-pages open in tabs in your browser, they all have the same name, because the title element has "Stack Overflow - " before the title of the question.
Swapping the title of the question with the website name would improve the tabbed browsing user exp... more
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good point, but labor intensive
asjo
Wait, are you sure the "labor intensive" comment wasn't a joke?
(If this change requires more than one line of code (template) to be edited, I would say something is wrong and refactoring is in order.)
Andy^
This is also more beneficial from a SEO point of view.
endangeredmassa
It would be very little work if he uses mater pages where there is, perhaps, a function that sets the browser title, which can be called from the child page. Then, he could just switch the order in the function and be done.
endangeredmassa
Marxidad: That's not the problem at all. He isn't going to spend a lot of time changing the constant on a dozen pages (which is what you are trying to solve). Instead, he will spend a lot of time rearranging the order of the constant and the titlename. This would be the exact same amount of work whether or not he used a variable for the " - StackOverflow" string.
asjo
The devil is in the details :-)
marxidad
The title tags should just have TitleName <%= SiteName %> where SiteName is a constant of " - StackOverflow".
mattmillr
You have a favicon, so I don't need the words "Stack Overflow" to tell me what site it is.
coderanger
Definately agree as you just get useless page or tab titles when you have multiple questions open