Allow custom header

[michaelmior]

It would be great if it were possible to customize the header somehow. It seems like right now you can't even change the title of the page.

[nelsonic]

@michaelmior agree. that would be super useful.
@des-des what is the plan for customising the templates?

[des-des]

I am not sure what people need as far as customising headers. Obvs not being able to set the title is a problem, I'll make a pull tonight!

[iteles]

@michaelmior Feel free to elaborate on suggested requirements!

@des-des Thanks!

[michaelmior]

Thanks for the quick responses all! I'm enjoying ampl so far. My current use case is to integrate it with my static site generator so I can automatically produce AMP-enabled portions of some of my pages. There are a couple things I can think of off the top of my head that would be useful:

• Allow generation of only the body of the page (this would make the user responsible for providing a header which results in a valid AMP document, but gives a lot more flexibility)
• Allow the insertion of additional content in the head of the document

[michaelmior]

Another important thing I realized is that there should be a way to specify the canonical URL.

[nelsonic]

@michaelmior can you please confirm if this change 154197f serves your purpose. thanks! 👍

[michaelmior]

It looks like it does :) Although I've since decided that it's easier for me to just build all the AMP HTML myself so I'm not currently using ampl. I think there's still potential for it to be very useful. This change is definitely a step in the right direction.

[nelsonic]

@michaelmior what made you decide to build the AMP HTML features yourself?
What is/was your use-case?
is there anything we can add/remove from ampl to make it fit your needs better?

[michaelmior]

Those are the right questions to ask :) I decided to produce an AMP version of my personal blog. I didn't need any of the image features provided by ampl and I needed some header customizations. This meant I wasn't really deriving a lot of benefit. It might be helpful to include easy ways to add other components such as amp-analytics.

If you're curious, the source is public and you can view the template I use for AMP pages.

[nelsonic]

@michaelmior thanks that's really helpful. :)