Re: Displaying product pictures (frames or new windows?)

At 10:35 AM 8/4/00 -0500, Paul Wilson wrote:
> > So.... Let's hear more about solutions!  How do others deal with this?
>
>Hmm....    A lot of websites use TWO versions, a framed version and an
>unframed version.  This gets around the Search Engine problem. The trouble
>with this is now you have twice the work and the non-frame site still takes
>a mongo effort to change a simple menu.
>
>The other alternative is not pretty, it involves a server side content
>delivery system. barnesandknoble.com uses Active Server Pages to do this.
>Database content  delivery is becoming quite popular.

I just converted a site to server side includes and if you have a good 
host, it's not hard to just *call* the menu to each page. I haven't gotten 
around to finding a script to identify the page the viewer is on, but I 
know I can do that and I had a bad experience with ASP so I don't go any 
where near that stuff.

The site I converted had 6 pages and then it grew and it grew and it grew, 
so I wrote the top menu to it's own file and then use SSI to drop it in to 
each of the 22 pages.

>My only question is, does it work with search engines.  A Search Engine
>won't type in a query, so how do dynamicaly generated  pages get indexed?
>Do they get indexed at all? A quick look around shows that they probably
>don't.
>
>This means we have to throw out most of what we know about meta tags and SE
>placement.  I perceive a move towards a directory structure like Yahoo. But
>we are not there now.  What do we use in the interim?  Do we abandon the
>placement concept altogether since it was a bugaboo to work with?  Add XML
>to this equation and what do you get?
>
>Does this means more reliance on advertising, affiliation or good old
>banners. Conversly the alternative is websites that nobody can find.  This
>looks bad for the little website with a small budget. The future looks murky
>to me.  Anybody shed some light on this?
>
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