I have the site www.nicefacts.com. A fellow DP member is making a new system for it for me that offers more features, which you can see the WIP at http://wip.damianov.net/nicefacts/. I think is looks good so far and am happy with how it is turning out. It's not done, of course, but you can see how the "center content" will be. I requested that it be made in such a way that users can switch between facts without the page having to reload, which this does nicely, and helps a lot with performance. However, the content you see there on the site, does not show when doing a page source, of course. Therefore, I am afraid it will not be search engine friendly. Is there any design change that can be made so that it will be SEF with the same functionality? Thanks in advance.
It could be done with AJAX, same way this forum doesn't or reload when you post a quick reply, but it would probably need re-coding and replacing all the iframes. Not sure if there's any other way to make it SEF with the current set up, nice idea though, i like it .
You're right on that. If you're trying to make a SEF page using IFRAME's is not the way to go. As fhirzall said, you probably want to use AJAX in this case. You simply put all your content in div's, and when the user presses the previous or next buttons, it queries your server, grabs the next fact, and updates the .innerHTML property of the appropriate div. Another option would be to put all your facts on one page (either as invisible div's or in a javascript array), then when a user presses the previous or next buttons it simply makes the appropriate fact visible (and all other facts invisible).
I don't think the latter you mentioned is a good way to go since there are so many. Let me pass this info on, and see if he's familiar with this technique.