Had a ReadWriteThink status update today, and one of the problems that came up was the title bars. When the site was originally designed, the designer went with very basic info. Lesson plan titles, for instance, were titled “ReadWriteThink: Lesson Plan.” That’s a problem when you look at Google results, and that’s all you see to identify the lesson. There’s no way to tell them apart. Turns out that it’s also a problem with our WebTrends data. It’s a pain to figure out which lesson plans and resources get the most hits.
Now I’ve poked around, and the pages all say something like this:
ReadWriteThink: Lesson Plan: [title of the lesson plan from the database].
I changed the lessons, calendar entries, and student materials. The problem is that the title fields include HTML markup, so the titles for the pages look funny when italics is involved.
I found a javascript that seemed to strip out the HTML. Maybe that will solve the problem. Can’t know till the NCTE copy of Google spiders tonight.
