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There's also this module: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://drupal.org/project/blogtitle">http://drupal.org/project/blogtitle</a><br>
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I haven't tried it, so caveat emptor.<br>
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Sam Cohen wrote:
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cite="mid:a0b404fa0908061149k6f9200adp2f92b4d930d2285c@mail.gmail.com"
type="cite">Why not just use phptemplate_ preprocess_page in
template.php to change the blog title?<br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 2:44 PM, Ayen Designs
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style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">I
thought that all of you who have read and posted (thank you) regarding
this would like to know the outcome. First of all, I neglected to
mention anything about the relationship originally, because before it
wasn't really important, until the discussion expanded into the subject
of 'investment.' This particular client has given me over $10K of work
during the time of those 2,000 e-mails, so my take on whether to
investigate things for free is affected by that.<br>
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The client is the type who is very demanding in terms of
particulars...reads about SEO, blogging, on and on. This is helpful in
having discussions about specifics, because her level of knowledge
allows her to understand, but is also very taxing, in terms of having
specific meta data constructs, page name constructs, alternate image
text constructs, and so forth given for everything. That is what led to
the problem with the blog, the fact that she knows what she wants,
which is to send a blog article by blog-api, have the blog name be what
she wants (not user's blog), have the blog article show in the
breadcrumb when its being viewed, and have the url be what she wants.<br>
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So, she phoned today. I had basically told her in my response that I
didn't feel it could be done in 30 minutes, that I really didn't intend
to change my estimate to fit what she read in the article, and I
reminded her of my development pedigree, not in an uppity kind of way,
but just that I've been around the corner several times and started in
a garage at the same time as Bill Gates, but he had the better idea :-)
And that I've had projects from 30 minutes up to $20M. So when she
phoned, I said that she already has a blog that doesn't work the way
she wants. That I've already tried string_override to solve the blog
name problem, and that it didn't work, and for good reason, but that it
wasn't known until tried that it wouldn't work. That I could set her up
a single-user non-blog blog in 30 minutes, but that she already has one
that doesn't work the way she wants, and that I don't know if the 20
things she needs her blog to accommodate will work with that solution,
and that it will take me the 3 hours to find out whether I can make it
do so.<br>
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The result? She said ok, and told me she was sending me another dozen
things to quote.<br>
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I offer this up as my advice on it all. There's a difference between
passiveness, aggressiveness, passive-aggressiveness and assertiveness.
Assertiveness will usually win when dealing with another professional.
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