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nikao - 11:15 am on Mar 12, 2007 (gmt 0)


Thanks for the replies..

I disagree with the 'just design a spiderable site' mantra though.

I think a website should be designed for the users, the visitors are most important! We are doing so by designing a AJAX website, which is user friendly from a interaction design point of view. The downside of this method is that the search engines can't crawl/index it though.
That's why we are thinking of implementing the suggested method...

What I thought of just now is this:

Checking on the server whether the visitor has a browser that supports the AJAX framework, and give the visitor the AJAX site or the html one accordingly..
This would result in Opera users seeing the HTML site, but also the search engines beeing directed to this html site..
This should be ok.. shouldn't it?


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