Re: Consumer Based Web Development

James,

This still leaves the SEO question unanswered. Pages with lots of generic
parameters in the query string are not so good for SEO, if you are
concerned about that.

Thanks,
Todd Allen
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Electronic Data Processing Services
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I forgot to mention that I crossed posted this with a local mailing list
too. Sorry if anybody received it twice from me.

Anyway, I think I found some resolution to this. I thought I would share
here for others and the sake of the archives.

I was told that JSF can handle parameters just like any other web
framework,
e.g. page.jsf?categoryId=1234. I was under the impression that it would not
work like this due to the JSF life cycle, but I was incorrect. So, it looks
like this solution should work fine.
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On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 10:45, James Perkins <jrperkinsjr@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I'm getting ready to start the process of creating a consumer based web
site. This is really the first time I've had to create a consumer based
site. My original thought was I would JSF/Facelets to create the site,

but

got to thinking this might not work out so well as I need search engines

to

be able to index it. I've created web applications before, but they have
always been internal applications or applications that required a user to
log in and have an account.

Doing some reading on SEO I'm seeing now that an entire JSF based site
might not be the best approach. The main problem being you can't really
bookmark JSF pages and links are mostly created using JavaScript which

the

spiders can't crawl.

My question is have others run into this? Are people really still

creating

static pages for stuff like this? Do any of you have suggestions on where

to

begin or possibly a framework that would work better than or with JSF?

I've

heard of PrettyFaces, but I think you have to be on a Java EE 5 compliant
server which to start we will not be running.

I've also considered creating a library to generate static pages based on
templates. That way each time a new item or category is entered into the
database a new page is not having to manually created and/or updated.

Thanks in advance,
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James R. Perkins
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