Is anybody else really bothered by this big honking Home here on the home page?
If you have surfed the Internet more than five minutes you know this is the home page.
Do you really need a big honking word here that says that this is the home page?
I would love to get rid of that thing and fortunately that's completely possible.
If you remember from the last video you might have noticed that our Page
Headings come above article titles and that there are styled to be slightly
larger, at least in this particular template. Wow! Any guesses where that home is coming from?
It's slightly larger and it's positioned above our article title. Yup!
It's a Page Heading and it's turned on for the home page by default.
So let's go take a look at the Menu Item and get rid of that big home thing on the home page.
So inside of the back end of Joomla! I'm going to go to Menus>Main Menu.
I am going to click on the Home link.
I am going to click on Advanced Options and I'm going to go to the Page Display
Options tab and where it says Show Page Heading it's currently set to Yes,
but notice that nothing is filled in here for the Page Heading.
In the tooltip here this will explain to you that if you don't type in any text
for the Page Heading what it will do is take the Menu Title and display that
in the Page Heading box if you have Page Heading turned on but no text specified.
So, that's exactly what's happened.
The word Home is the Menu Title.
It's now displayed on the page because we haven't overwritten it with another
text in our Page Heading.
To get rid of that big word Home, all we have to do is turn our Page Heading to No,
and say Save & Close.
And when we go back to the Home page, we can refresh this and finally that big
honking Home thing is gone.
The other thing we might want to do while we're here is we might want to change
our Browser page title, because right now this says KinetECO-Home and while it's
very descriptive of what this is and it's great for bookmarking, it's is not
necessarily is good for search engine optimization, because you might want to
have some keywords embedded in your browser HTML page title.
I am going to take this phrase, Harnessing wind and sun for a cleaner energized planet.
I am going to copy that and I am going to put that in as our Browser Page title.
So back once again in the back end of Joomla!
in the Home Menu item, under Advanced options, and under Page Display options
I'm going to paste in, Ctrl+V or Cmd+V, that phrase as our browser page
title and I can say Save.
When I refresh this page that will give me that phrase up there at the top of the page.
The other approach I could have taken that arguably would be better for search
engine optimization rather than having that phrase which already appears on the page,
I could say something like Solar panels, windmills, consumer
environmentally-friendly products.
And that would get a few more keywords in my browser page title as well.
So that definitely improves our homepage.
We don't have that big honking Home staring us down in the face anymore
and now we've got a much better HTML browser or page title here as well.