Section List Titles [Archive] - Actinic Community

feemish

21-Jun-2008, 01:15 PM

Hi,

V7.0.3

I have used quite long titles, with keywords, for my shop sections, this seems to help with seo as the sections appear as links on my homepage.

My problem is that these titles are then used in the section menu (on the left hand side of my shop) As they are quite long, the section menu looks a bit complicated and messy.

http://www.arka-shop.co.uk

Is there any way i can have different (shorter) text in the section links than what i have used as section titles?

Thanks in advance for any advice,
Mark

(I currently use a customvar 'owntitle' to use my own pagetitles... that might no be relevant)

RuralWeb

21-Jun-2008, 01:44 PM

currently use a customvar 'owntitle' to use my own pagetitles
Stop using this and write the page title in by hand - you can then shorten the section navigation text and the page title will be different.

feemish

21-Jun-2008, 02:00 PM

Hi Rural Web,

Thanks for the reply, though i'm not sure what you mean.

For example the section title 'Wooden Flesh Plugs and Tunnels'

I've set the page name as;wooden-flesh-tunnels-plugs.html so this is the html page name.

I use properties: to give my own page title: wooden flesh tunnels, plugs and ear stretchers and expanders. This is the page title which google uses;
I do this so i can have a more comprehensive page title description... works well.

<html><head><TITLE> wooden flesh tunnels, plugs and ear stretchers and expanders</TITLE><Actinic:BASEHREF VALUE="http://www.arka-shop.co.uk/acatalog/"/><META NAME="ACTINICTITLE" CONTENT="Wooden Flesh Tunnels and Plugs"><META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <META NAME="Keywords" CONTENT="body piercing,ear,expanders,flesh tunnel,organic,plugs,retail shop ,tubes,wood,wooden">
<META NAME="Description" CONTENT="wooden flesh tunnels, plugs, tubes and ear expanders">

I want the section titles to remain the same, as they appear as hard links on my front page.

I just want the text for the section menu links (on the left hand side) to be shorter.

Best Regards,
Mark

http://www.arka-shop.co.uk

feemish

21-Jun-2008, 02:06 PM

Let me make make it more basic... I think i've over complicated.

Section Details: General :Name

This name is used as the section titles and therefore hard links on my front page; which is all good.

http://www.arka-shop.co.uk

However, its also used as the text for the section links dynamic menu (on the left of my page) Here, the length of text looks messy.. So i'd like it shorter there.

Can i do this?

jont

21-Jun-2008, 08:28 PM

Can i do this?

Yes and improve SEO at the same time - bin the automated navigation and hardcode your top level sections.... this will allow you to truncate the sectio9n names and provide non cgi-bin links at the same time.

feemish

23-Jun-2008, 11:25 AM

Hi Jont, Of course!! Doh!

I'd like to keep the links in the same place, do you know off hand which template to edit..?

and do i need to somehow disable the automated navigation ? or just leave that alone?

Thanks very much,
Mark

Duncan Rounding

23-Jun-2008, 11:36 AM

If you are replacing the navigation with your own hardcoded navigation then you can place it in Act_Primary or/and Act_BrochurePrimary.

jont

23-Jun-2008, 11:45 AM

.. and Act_PrimaryCheckout.html to cover the cart pages.

You can  the automated system to leave in case you need to roll back for any reason.

feemish

23-Jun-2008, 02:15 PM

Thanks for that, I'll have a go.
Cheers!

http://www.arka-shop.co.uk

jont

23-Jun-2008, 08:50 PM

Mark - you may want to look at the size of the header area of the site. Viewing it on the laptop and the majority of the screen is made up with the header and I need to scroll before seeing the products. Just a thought.

leehack

23-Jun-2008, 08:57 PM

I'd ditto that, the moving part at the top is more than enough IMO.

feemish

24-Jun-2008, 11:05 AM

Thanks for the interest and the comments.
You may be right about the size of the header. I wanted the word 'arka' to have a BIG visual impact, so people couldnt forget it. Lots of people revisit me searching for 'arka' so that has worked... but i understand your views on it being too big, i may look into it soon. Thanks,

Mark
http://www.arka-shop.co.uk

feemish

24-Jun-2008, 03:11 PM

Made the changes ... hard coded the links... thanks for the advice.

Changed Act_Primary

Jont....
didnt seem to need to change Act_PrimaryCheckout.html
The new menu is there..??

mark

jont

24-Jun-2008, 03:13 PM

didnt seem to need to change Act_PrimaryCheckout.html

That is the factory default layout - sounds like it has been changed to use the Act_Primary.html at some point - doesn't matter so long as everything is working. Nice one.

feemish

24-Jun-2008, 03:18 PM

Cheers Jont!

jont

24-Jun-2008, 03:28 PM

Just looked at the site and that looks much neater with the left hand navigation