I wouldn't say that is still true today, yes definitely it was true 3/4 years ago, but not so much now. You will find that there are some real good designers out there that can make something work on the web.
-----Original Message----- From: Rich Wild [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 07 January 2003 15:30 To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [ cf-dev ] SES URL > Design agencies are often interested in getting the client to > buy their > design based on how wonderful it looks rather than how > feasible it will > be to make it work. Don't get me stared on that one. Oooooh design agencies make me angry! Especially when the client comes to us after they've bought the design and we have to alter it radically to make it work on the web rather than in print (which is most design companies' background and then the client bitches cos its not the design they bought. etc etc etc. I'd like to tour each and every design company that designs like that and beat them to death with four monitors each set at a different resolution. *ahem* calm. zen. purity. pint of lager. big bag of skunk. its ok, I'm calm again now. rant over. sorry. R. > -----Original Message----- > From: Spike [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: 07 January 2003 15:25 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: [ cf-dev ] SES URL > > > Lots of people forget that large sites are often designed by design > agencies/teams and then implemented by developers from a separate or > partner company. > > Design agencies are often interested in getting the client to > buy their > design based on how wonderful it looks rather than how > feasible it will > be to make it work. > > For a case in point go here: > > http://www.vu.nl > > Try automagically making that one Search Engine friendly. > > Even for sites that are designed and built by competent > developers, I'd > wager that it's pretty rare that you'll not have any pages that use a > bit of Javascript to redirect to another page. Whether or not that > should be indexed by a spider is a bit hard to say, but I certainly > wouldn't assume that it isn't necessary. > > Personally, I'd rather go through every href in the site and make the > whole lot Search Engine friendly than try to convert only half of it. > Almost certainly, the half you don't convert will cause you no end of > little requests for another code change just so it works for search > engines. > > Spike > > > Stephen Milligan > Team Macromedia - ColdFusion > Co-author 'Reality Macromedia ColdFusion MX: Intranets and Content > Management' > http://spikefu.blogspot.com > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Taz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Sent: 07 January 2003 16:16 > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: Re: [ cf-dev ] SES URL > > > > > > > > > Not forgetting to do the same thing for all Javascript > > generated hrefs > > > (Good luck with that one), and forms with a get operation where > > > relevant. > > > > > > Also, you might need to do it for some <link>, <base>, <object>, > > > <applet> and some other tags that take a href attribute. > > > > Not strictly true though... > > > > Assuming that you're trying to create SEF URLs specifically > > for search engines, you only really need to alter the URLs > > that you want a spider to follow. If you're using javascript > > to generate links and popups, its likely that the content > > that they link to is not important to your search engine indexing. > > > > Lots of people forget that they need only create SEF URLs for > > the parts of the site that need to be indexed, which is > > mainly text content. When you look at the whole app, you > > might find that only half of it needs to be SEF. > > > > It can still be a bloody big faff though. > > > > Taz > > > > > > -- > > ** Archive: > http://www.mail-archive.com/dev%40lists.cfdeveloper.co.uk/ > > > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > For additional commands, e-mail: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] For human help, e-mail: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > > -- > ** Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/dev%40lists.cfdeveloper.co.uk/ > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For human help, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- ** Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/dev%40lists.cfdeveloper.co.uk/ To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For human help, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ** Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/dev%40lists.cfdeveloper.co.uk/ To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For human help, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
