NYCPHP Meetup

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Mitch Pirtle mitch.pirtle-at-gmail.com |nyphp MAIN ONE dev/internal 
group use| wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 11:41 PM, inforequest <1j0lkq002 at sneakemail.com> wrote:
>   
>> Mitch Pirtle mitch.pirtle-at-gmail.com |nyphp MAIN ONE dev/internal group
>> use| wrote:
>>     
>>> On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 8:26 PM, Peter Becker <peterbsemail at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>       
>>>> Is there even such a thing as an off-the-shelf CMS that does NOT do
>>>> layout?
>>>>  We are just beginning to design and spec the next rev of our site using
>>>> Zend Framework.  We're looking for a something that will work for the
>>>> business to create and update content but not get in the way of our page
>>>> design/implementation, code promotion and environment management.  Any
>>>> guidance here is greatly appreciated
>>>>
>>>>         
>>> Check out silverstripe, which might do what you are looking for. It
>>> takes a page-centric design attitude which definitely sits well with
>>> designers.
>>>
>>> http://www.silverstripe.org/
>>>
>>> -- Mitch
>>>       
>> I always look at Mitch's recommendations, so I just dl'd and installed
>> Silverlight and put up a test site. Nice and easy. But... sadly, not SEO
>> compatible out of the box, and not simple to fix.
>>
>> The immediate core issue for me is the way it parses the URL on a slash...
>>
>> Practically speaking,  this causes duplicate content issues for spidering
>> search engines e.g. the aboutus page is accessible at
>> www.example.com/aboutus/ but also resolves at
>> www.example.com/aboutus/whatever
>> and www.example.com/aboutus/whatever/whatever/
>>
>> You don't get a 404 until you go three slashes out... chalk it up to the
>> sapphire framework's front controller.
>>
>> I'm looking to see if I can clarify this for the sapphire dev forum, or if
>> it has been addressed already in the roadmap....
>>     
>
> Would be cool if you flagged them about it - chances are it is
> something they could fix, if they understood it to be a problem.
>
>     http://open.silverstripe.org/
>
> -- Mitch
>   



yes thanks for the link.. put it on my do list after this crushing week 
is over. I prefer to take time to find a nice way to participate, so I 
don't come across as a critical SEO Dbag ;-)