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

> 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.

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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