Re: Consumer Based Web Development

[James Perkins <jrperkinsjr@xxxxxxxxx>]

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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James R. Perkins
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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
> http://twitter.com/the_jamezp