[PJUG Javamail] Consumer Based Web Development

[Steve Mayzak]

Depending on your requirements and skillset, I would consider using Drupal
for a customer facing site.  I know this is the JUG list so feel free to
smack talk on this one!



On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 8:56 AM, James Perkins <jrperkinsjr at gmail.com> 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,
> --
> James R. Perkins
> http://twitter.com/the_jamezp
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