Hi: Your assessment is very practical on the two types of web sites. Hope the SEO of GWT will soon be addressed by Google. Same as the HTTPS accessible by domain names will be ironed out in GAE. Via a new web- hooked PubSubHubbub, we can share all kinds of information and content.
Duong BaTien DBGROUPS and BudhNet On Fri, 2010-04-02 at 20:49 +0530, Sripathi Krishnan wrote: > Entire website in GWT, yes/no ? > I would say no. > > There are two types of websites - > * Content driven - which share information. Think blogs, > corporate websites, forums etc. SEO is usually important. And > content is almost always delivered over http. > * Interaction driven - in which the user and site interact > closely, typically involving ajax. Think web apps like gmail, > google docs, facebook. Here, the content is usually specific > to a user, and is typically delivered after login. So, you'd > want https, and wouldn't care much about SEO. > You can build both kinds of websites with GWT, but it really is suited > for the interactive web-apps. For content-driven websites, GWT is an > overkill. You have to do a lot of extra work to make it SEO friendly. > Modifying content will require a re-build, which gets bugging after a > point. There are ways to get around these limitations, but its just > not worth it. > > I would recommend you split your website into two parts along the > above lines. For the website portion, use whatever technology you are > familiar with, make it SEO friendly, and deliver it over http. For the > interactive portion, use GWT. That way, you get best of both worlds. > > --Sri > > > > On 2 April 2010 19:29, Katharina Probst <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Abdullah, > > to make your app searchable, you may also want to consider > looking at http://code.google.com/web/ajaxcrawling. (Note that > this only works for Google right now). > > kathrin > > > > > On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 3:56 AM, Abdullah Shaikh > <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi All, > > I am planning to have my entire website in GWT, but > there a few issues, for which I would like to have > your suggestions on. > > 1) The site should be searchable (SEO) > > 2) I would need to switch between Http/Https depending > on the input I will be taking from the user > > Any idea how to achieve this ? > > > The other thing I have in mind is, I go with plain > html approach, that is use jsp/ftl, put the content > there, and have the gwt application in the same > jsp/ftl file and fetch the data using DOM to display > it in GWT UI, this way the content will be searchable. > > Is the above approach good or is there any issues > with ? also I would need to have multiple gwt > applications using this approach for each & every page > where I need got user interactivity & UI. > > Thanks for any help. > > - Abdullah > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed > to the Google Groups "Google Web Toolkit" group. > To post to this group, send email to google-web- > [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to google- > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/google-web-toolkit? > hl=en. > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the > Google Groups "Google Web Toolkit" group. > To post to this group, send email to google-web- > [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to google-web- > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/google-web-toolkit?hl=en. > > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Google Web Toolkit" group. > To post to this group, send email to google-web- > [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to google-web-toolkit > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/google-web-toolkit?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Web Toolkit" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-web-toolkit?hl=en.
