Birchandra,

Some good comments above about routing, and they are even more
important when you consider the SEO (Search Engine Optimization)
benefits.

I suspect your site will have difficulty getting good search engine
rankings as it currently stands, but  with a few changes could do a
lot better. some not strictly Symfony related, but we're talking about
a whole package here :-).  The routing engine in Symfony is a
fantastic resource and shouldn't be overlooked.

Consider the search engine crawlers as a blind user with no CSS, no
Javascript and no Flash and try out your site. See how far you get!
Here are a few comments from a quick look. This is meant as
constructive help, so please don't take it badly 8-)

 * There is no html link alternative for the flash landing page. ( My
personal preference and IMHO the industry trend is away from landing
pages altogether, but that's a different debate :-) How will the no-
Flash or Search Engine get to your (real) home page?
 * The main menu has no HTML alternative, so the search engine has no
way of getting to all the pages in your site, and so cannot index
them, so cannot return them in search results. I suggest you check out
the SWFObject (http://www.swffix.org/devblog/ which is the latest
version of http://blog.deconcept.com/swfobject/) - Add a html version
of the menu with <ul><li> tags in a div, then replace that div at page
load time with the flash using SWFObject). There may be a nice Symfony
way to do this. Anyone?
 * I agree with the comment suggesting you remove the /home/ from all
the urls, however I would also remove the /index in the suggested
urls, so the news page would be simply http://www.amrit-cwt.com/news
  * I second the comment about adding some nice routing for the news
items. Search engines tend to ignore query strings. Routing is one of
the (many) great benefits of using Symfony, so instead of
http://www.amrit-cwt.com/home/news?id=3 you could have something like
http://www.amrit-cwt.com/news/our-drinkable-water-supply-is-vanishing
 * Finally, I notice there is no heading on the news page - a proper
<h1> heading and unique <title> tag are possibly the simplest, easiest
yet most effective SEO methods.

SEO is a HUGE topic and the above is, of course, hardly even
scratching the surface. However, In terms of "bang for the buck" you
will get a lot further if you do some very basic things. If you want
to get carried away with SEO, there's a useful FAQ page on Sitepoint
at http://www.sitepoint.com/forums/showthread.php?t=182915


Hope this helps,

Rob


>
> On Jan 15, 4:27 am, "Sid Bachtiar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Nice website (informative contents too!) :)
>
> > I did notice that all the actions are in module 'home'? If it is me, I
> > would split the actions into several modules.
>
> > So instead of:
>
> > home -> home/forward
> > services -> home/services
> > contact -> home/contact
>
> > I would have structured it like:
>
> > home -> home/index
> > services -> services/index
> > contact -> contact/index
>
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