[Pro] General Page Settings Question

I noticed that when I create a new page with a longer title, the file name is shortened in the general page setting file. For example if I have a longer text - mywebsitedesign.html, it is shortened to mywebdes.html

I can manually change it, but do I require this? Is it a problem with something if I don’t change the longer text?

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That happens when Freeway just suggests a page name based off of your page title. It is always best practice to change the subpage names to make sense. So instead of “contactusbecauseyouthinkwerecool.html” could just be changed to “contact.html”.

However, make sure to leave the home page to always be index.html or else your site won’t load but for subpages you can go ahead and change them.


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You can also change the Max. filename length to default to something longer in File>Document Setup>Output and change it to a greater number of characters

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Hi Dave

I guess I have to do it manually I can not find the option you recommended.

On 8 Sep 2011, 10:25 pm, DeltaDave wrote:

You can also change the Max. filename length to default to something longer in File>Document Setup>Output and change it to a greater number of characters

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With your FW document open go to the File Menu and down to Document Setup

A dialogue box will open with Tabs across the top

One of these is Output

Select that and then in that Pane there is the option to change the number of characters in Max. Filename length

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You will need to go back through your pages and manually change the
automatically-generated filenames. This setting will only affect new
pages made after you change it.

If you want to reset the default for all future documents you create,
just make this setting change while no documents are open in Freeway.
Anything you find in the Document Setup dialog while there is no
document open is something that you can set as a global default.
Again, this will only change the future, not the past, and changing
the setting within a document will only alter that document.

Walter

On Sep 10, 2011, at 11:40 AM, DeltaDave wrote:

Select that and then in that Pane there is the option to change the
number of characters in Max. Filename length


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I recently worked on a site with a seo company and they even suggested to break the long file names with a hyphen eg. my-web-site-design.html.

In their case though they came up with appropriate page names related to the content. Not sure of the benefit but they swear by it.

Marcel


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Hyphens are word-separators in Google-ese, and underscores are not.
Not sure why, but that’s the reason they suggested it.

Walter

On Sep 10, 2011, at 1:56 PM, Helveticus wrote:

I recently worked on a site with a seo company and they even
suggested to break the long file names with a hyphen eg. my-web-site-
design.html.

In their case though they came up with appropriate page names
related to the content. Not sure of the benefit but they swear by it.

Marcel


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