I'm also bothered by Google's page estimates. Yesterday Google reported more than 10,000, now it reports 6,700.

My web editor warns me when I save a page and have not changed the default name. A GoLive user needs the prompt thrown in their face with a text entry box to make the change.

Posted by: Jack - Googled Out on August 20, 2002 09:48 AM

 

The solution is to code pages by hand...the REAL way. :-)

Posted by: Adrian on August 20, 2002 10:30 AM

 

That's terrible software design! Why does Adobe think that "Welcome to Adobe GoLive 6" is an appropriate default title for a web page? Think about it - why would anyone keep that title in their pages? Even Frontpage calls it "Untitled document". Does Adobe think that the only people who'll use their product are their own employees? Oh wait...

Posted by: MadMan on August 20, 2002 12:37 PM

 

When the page is saved, it should see if the default name has been changed, and if not pop up a dialog that says something like "Please enter a name for this page that summarizes the content for visitors" and gives them a field with the default name in there and selected (so they can see how inappropriate "Untitled" or "Welcome to Adobe GoLive" is) so they can just start typing to replace it.

Posted by: Lydia on August 20, 2002 04:11 PM

 

>how to combat this problem

Darwinism.

Posted by: sean on August 20, 2002 09:25 PM

 

This is what people will see if you post your comment:

The HTML editor companies should sell default page titles to other companies. They could take a few dozen sponsored page titles "Webword kicks ass" and use these as defaults.

Then if the user doesn't change the default, we will see something a little more entertaining.

Or they could just ask the user to enter their own default page title on installation of the software. It wouldn't solve the problem, but it would make it a bit better.

Posted by: Mac on August 21, 2002 09:07 AM

 

If you don't know how to use a hammer, don't try to build a house.

Posted by: MH on August 21, 2002 10:39 AM

 

There's more than one way to build a house. Log cabins. Tee-pees. Adobe pueblos. Igloos. Don't foist your Ace Hardware propaganda on me.

Posted by: Jack on August 21, 2002 12:28 PM

 

Folks, all these mocks are useless...
GoLive is great tool (personally I prefer text editor :-).
John, maybe you should let Adobe know about this bug?

Posted by: Greg on August 21, 2002 09:59 PM