I was thinking of using a format like:[SpecificPageName - ]SiteName - SectionNameStackOverflow - DownloadStackOverflow - ContactStackOverflow - Forumhey guys my 1st post - StackOverflow - Forumthis site has nice titles - StackOverflow - ForumHowever, I don't really see the last two examples used anywhere. Apple sometimes uses a : to signify a specific page in section:hey guys my 1st post: StackOverflow - ForumBut the use of a : eeks me out a bit. Anyone know a good convention for this?
Conveying website hierarchy using page title. Any conventions?
seo;html;title
I like to use the more logical [page] - [category] - [site] format because it is organized in order of reverse magnitude (the exact reverse of what we use for numerals and the international date format). In a less pragmatic world I'd go with [site] - [cat] - [page] but that leads to being unable to read the page title from the browser because it is cut off much too soon.Depending on the size of the site, I'd also suggest leaving out the category all together. This is especially true if your site has a global unique page name rule (as is the case with many Wiki type sites). If the page name is already unique, further organization is redundant and gets in the way when people just want to know the title of the article.EDIT: Also, I forgot to mention that the best seperator is the dash (-) because it matches the seperator used by most (if not all) browsers. For example, in the title bar of all pages viewed in Chrome the title will always end with ' - Chrome' or ' - Chromium', etc..