Custom ASPX Page Meta/Title Data

10-05-2009, 02:21 PM

We've created a bunch of custom .aspx pages that use the aspdnsf SkinBase class. How do we go about setting the page title and meta tags?

If we just try and do a this.Page.Title = "Something" we get an error saying the <head> tag needs a runat="server". We try this and still it does not work.

Anybody know the trick to this?

10-05-2009, 02:57 PM

Skinbase has all the SE* properties used to build the meta information. Set those in the PreRender event and you should be set. Check the ShowProduct.aspx page if you need an example

10-05-2009, 04:39 PM

Thanks Dan. Massive brain-fart on this one.

10-15-2009, 03:16 AM

I know this one seems to have been answered here, but I just wanted to add my solution for others to see which I've been using sucessfully.

I started to use this on our home page to hard code the page title which has previously suffered a loss of title and revert back to 'sitename' which resulted in a dramatic drop in search traffic.

Hope you find this useful.

I use this in the CS file page load event.

*******

namespace AspDotNetStorefront
{
public partial class contact_boardwise : SkinBase
{
protected void Page_Load(object sender, System.EventArgs e)
{
{
SectionTitle = "Your Title";
SETitle = "Your Page Title";
SEDescription = "Your Description";
}
}
}
}

02-17-2010, 01:13 PM

This solution does work great. But I would rather give people access to the topics and appconfigs thru the admin site instead of changing the code behind file all the time. Any idea how we could do that?

05-05-2010, 10:24 PM

How about adding custom data to the DB and calling that from page behind?
That way you could update the text from admin pages and then have code behind load whatever is in the DB

Late and not really going in to much detail, but that is what my first instict would be

Justin

Thread: Custom ASPX Page Meta/Title Data

Custom ASPX Page Meta/Title Data

rather use topics if possible