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You may notice that every page at ode-is-simple.com/home/ has the same title. That's very sad. :)

Ode should do whatever it can to make sure that your content is easy to find and use for human visitors, search engines, other sorts of web services, etc.

This is a very broad statement involving a number of different considerations, including among many others: standards compliance, reliability, and design. Somewhere in there are page titles.

Ideally each page should have a unique title and right now Ode is the opposite of that (i.e. each page has exactly the same title). That's the bad kind of simple (stupid simple). The trouble is that by the time Ode accesses the content of a site, the page title has already been committed (finalized).

A little reworking of Ode takes care of that problem. Now:

• The home page title is the site title.
• Category page titles agree with category names.
• Pages for individual posts take there title from the post title.

Of course, this is only the default. You're free to do anything you like with page titles. The key thing is that it's now possible to have all of these different page titles and before it wasn't.

You won't see this change at ode-is-simple.com until I cut over to the new version of Ode on the site. I'll figure out some way to make it obvious when that happens (other than the page titles I mean).