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Here’s something I’ve just ran in to as the site nears completion. I have a header and footer template which I embed everywhere, I like to avoid duplicating templates at all costs. So far this works nicely until I noticed that I forgot to handle my page titles. Because the page title is set in the header template which is embedded everywhere by the time I have access to the weblog title for instance I can no longer change the page title.. I think?

Whats the best way to deal with page titles when you embed a header, it seems to me that this must be something quite common.

There can be a great deal of variation on this one, depending on personal prefs and how the site is setup.  I tend to do it in the header (which is embedded) and use some php parsed on input to conditional flip out some tags.  I don’t love that way- so sometimes I start my header in the actual templates and just embed like a ‘top nav’- then I can ditch the php conditionals for the most part and put the title and any tags needed to generate it there.

For a really clear discussion of a couple of approaches- check out Lisa’s SEO/Title article.  Think that should give you a good idea of how to go at it.

Let me know how it works out- and yell back if you run into an issue.