Page Layout ⇒ Problems not numbering title page

[malaghanite]

Hi all!

I'm quite new to Latex and using Texshop on Mac. My document is an article and I'm using fancyhydr and pagestyle fancyplain.
I defined my title as titlepage but it still comes up with a page number in the footer. Even when I put \thispagestyle{empty} the page number is still there...
Any suggestions why this is and how I can get rid of the page number (and count)?

Thanks for any help!

As I read that it would help to attach examples, I just copied the beginning of my document and put it here.

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\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{fancyhdr}
\pagestyle{fancyplain}
\lhead[]{\sectionmark}
\rhead[]{\subsectionmark}


\usepackage{siunitx} % for typesetting SI units
\usepackage{sidecap} % for sidecaptions
\usepackage{wrapfig}
\usepackage{booktabs} % for much better looking tables
\usepackage{array} % for better arrays (eg matrices) in maths
\usepackage{paralist} % very flexible & customisable lists (eg. enumerate/itemize, etc.)
\usepackage{verbatim} % adds environment for commenting out blocks of text & for better verbatim
\usepackage{subfig} % make it possible to include more than one captioned figure/table in a single float
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{amssymb}
\usepackage{epstopdf}
\usepackage{textcomp}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage{natbib}


%%% BEGIN DOCUMENT
\begin{document}
\begin{titlepage}
\thispagestyle{empty}
\title{title}
\author{name}
\date{date}
\end{titlepage}
\maketitle
\newpage

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi,

you could use the titlepage option of the article class:

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\documentclass[titlepage]{article}

Further don't combine the titlepage environment with \maketitle. This would work:

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\title{title}
\author{name}
\date{date}
\begin{document}
\maketitle
...

Stefan

[malaghanite]

Thank you!
I didn't know that you have to explicitly tell Latex that you want a titlepage in your article at the documentclass level.

Now it's fine and looks great!